Welcome to the Oregon State Bar Online

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.

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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.

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Executive Committee

The sections executive committee meets once a month. Following are the executive committee officers and members:

Angel, Amy L		Chairperson
Carter, Sally A		Chair-Elect
Collins, Loren W		Past Chair
Farr, Mary Ellen Page		Treasurer
Radcliffe, Sarah		Secretary
Albies, J Ashlee		Member
Betz, Thaddeus August		Member
Blitz, C Akin		Member
Driscoll, Sean M		Member
Dugan, Marianne G		Member
Kodachi, John A		Member
Lafky, Kevin T		Member
Naucler, Mitzi M		BOG Contact
Nickell, Paul		Bar Liaison

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Newsletter

The section publishes the Oregon Civil Rights Newsletter three or 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 you would 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:

March 2006 (pdf: 8pg/74KB)

June 2006 (pdf: 8pg/83KB)

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)

July 2008 (pdf: 12pg/238KB)

December 2008 (pdf: 10pg/214KB)

To receive each newsletter as soon as it is published, please join the section.

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CLEs

The Civil Rights Section sponsors and cosponsors CLEs. Some 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 503/431-6413 or 800/452-8260 or visit the OSB CLE seminars section of the bar's website. You can also access some CLEs online via the bar's website.

CLE Seminars:

An Eye on Civil Rights: A State and Federal Update on Discrimination
Thursday, November 12, 2009
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Oregon State Bar Center, Tigard

Know Your Rights: Immigration, Employment & Related Issues
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
First Baptist Church
1221 SW Taylor Street
Portland, Oregon

Civil Rights and the First Amendment
Friday, October 10, 2008
5 hours, 46 minutes
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon

Trial Evidence in Employment and Civil Rights Cases
Friday, May 11, 2007
5 hours, 27 minutes

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.

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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.courts.oregon.gov/OJD/
     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

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