Welcome to the Oregon State Bar Civil Rights Section Website
The Oregon State Bar Civil Rights Section is pleased to present
a forum open to the public:
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: IMMIGRATION,
EMPLOYMENT & RELATED ISSUES.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
6 P.M. – 8 P.M.
First Baptist Church, 1221 SW Taylor Street
Portland, OR 97205
Please join us for this forum that will discuss the rights of documented and undocumented immigrants in the workplace and beyond. Presenters includes D. Michael Dale, attorney, Mark Griffin, attorney with Griffin & McCandlish, Steven Manning, attorney with Immigration Law Group LLP, and Francisco Lopez, CAUSA Oregon. The presentation will be in Spanish, with headsets available for English speakers who are not fluent in Spanish.
This event is FREE to the public.
Flyers are attached in English and Spanish. Please feel free to circulate this email and flyers to anyone who may be interested in learning more about immigrant rights.
Civil Rights Section Forum Flyer
Civil Rights Section
Forum Flyer – en Espaņol
Civil Rights Section Website Table of Contents
Civil Rights Section
How to Join
Executive Committee
Newsletter
CLEs
Legal Resource Links
Other Interesting Links
Contact Us
Disclaimer
Civil Rights Section
The Oregon State Bar Civil Rights Section provides bar members interested in civil rights issues with opportunities to develop and improve their skills and with a forum to communicate and take action on matters of mutual interest. The section publishes an eight-page newsletter four times a year, hosts a full-day CLE seminar each year and usually a shorter CLE as well, contributes to the Campaign for Equal Justice, and monitors legislation that affects civil rights.
How to Join
To join the section, send your name, street address, e-mail address, and $27 to Sarah Hackbart, Member Services Department, Oregon State Bar, 5200 SW Meadows Road, Lake Oswego, OR 97035. If you have questions about how to join, please contact Ms. Hackbart at shackbart@osbar.org.
Executive Committee
The sections executive committee meets on the last Thursday
of every month. Following are the executive committee officers and
members:
| Collins, Loren W | Chairperson | |
| Angel, Amy L | Chair-Elect | |
| Oldham, Katelyn S | Past Chair | |
| Kraemer, Steven A | Treasurer | |
| Kodachi, John A | Secretary | |
| Carter, Sally A | Member | |
| Driscoll, Sean M | Member | |
| Dugan, Marianne G | Member | |
| Farr, Mary Ellen Page | Member | |
| Hill, Cashauna | Member | |
| Lafky, Kevin T | Member | |
| Radcliffe, Sarah | Member | |
| Matsumonji, Audrey T | BOG Contact | |
| Nickell, Paul | Bar Liaison |
Newsletter
The section publishes the Oregon Civil Rights Newsletter four times a year. Articles are written by section members and, on occasion, by other OSB members. Have you recently written a memo or an opinion letter that could easily be revised into an article? Have you been looking for an excuse to do a little research on a topic that would also be of interest to our readers? If you have an idea for an article or youd be interested in writing an article, please contact the newsletter editor, Elise Gautier, at elise.gautier@comcast.net.
Here is a sampling of our newsletters:
December 2006 (pdf: 8pg/236KB)
March 2007 (pdf: 12pg/195KB)
June 2007 (pdf: 8pg/194KB)
October 2007 (pdf: 8pg/215KB)
February 2008 (pdf: 8pg/227KB)
June 2008 (pdf: 8pg/188KB)
To receive each newsletter as soon as it is published, please join the section.
CLEs
The Civil Rights Section sponsors and cosponsors CLEs. Recent ones are listed below. To rent or purchase a recording of a CLE (available in several different formats), please contact the Oregon State Bar at 503/431-6351 or 800/452-8260 or visit the CLE Information section of the bar's website.
CLE Seminar:
Employment Discrimination:
Civil Rights Actions under Title VII and the ADA
Friday, May 12, 2006
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon
CLE Seminar: The Right to Die? Oregon's Death with Dignity Act
Thursday, September 15, 2005
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon
CLE Seminar on Section 1983 Cases
Friday, April 1, 2005
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon
CLE Seminar on Civil Liberties after 9/11 and the Patriot
Act
Thursday, April 15, 2004
7 p.m.
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon
Download a streaming video of this free CLE here.
Check here to find out if your local cable access TV station will replay the video.
Check here for information on the USA Patriot Act and civil liberties after 9/11. (This list of links was compiled in March 2004.)
Legal Resource Links
Internet Resources for Oregon Lawyers
www.osbar.org/resources/eresources.html
This list, maintained by the Oregon State Bar, includes links to Oregon statutes, administrative rules, and court opinions; the Oregon courts; Oregon legislative materials; federal statutes, regulations, and court opinions; Oregon and federal agencies; libraries; maps; and many other sources of news and information.
Findlaw
www.findlaw.com
This site offers links to state and federal statutes and court opinions and to many other materials.
Willamette Law Online
www.willamette.edu/law/wlo
At this site, you can sign up to receive regular summaries by e-mail of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Oregon Supreme Court, and Oregon Court of Appeals. The summaries are offered at no charge.
Americans with Disabilities Act Home Page
www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
www.eeoc.gov
Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries
www.boli.state.or.us
Oregon Department of Justice
www.doj.state.or.us
Oregon Judicial Department
www.ojd.state.or.us
The site
is updated weekly with the opinions of the Oregon
Supreme Court, Oregon Court of Appeals, and
Oregon Tax Court.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
www.usccr.gov
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
www.usdoj.gov/crt
U.S. Department of Labor
www.dol.gov
Other Interesting Links
The Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site in Atlanta, Georgia
www.np
s.gov/malu/index.htm
The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford
University
www.stanford.edu/group/King
The National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama
www.nvrmi.org
The Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama
montgomery.troy.edu/museum
Contact Us
If you have questions about the section or would like to help with our work, please contact the section chair, or anyone else on the executive committee. Or you can contact the sections OSB liaison, Paul Nickell, at 503/620-0222, ext. 340, or pnickell@osbar.org. If you have questions about the newsletter or are interested in writing an article for the newsletter, please send an email message to Elise Gautier, the newsletter editor, at elise.gautier@comcast.net.
Disclaimer of Liability
The Civil Rights Section maintains this website as a service to our members. Nothing on this site should be construed as legal advice, and we make no warranty or guarantee concerning the accuracy or reliability of the content at this site or the other sites to which we link.