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The Oregon State Bar’s Appellate Practice Section is pleased to announce and solicit nominations for two section awards: (1) the Access to Justice Award and (2) the Distinguished Service Award. You can read about the awards and find the nomination forms on our Awards page. Nominations are due October 15, 2025. The awards will be given at the Oregon State Bar’s Day with the Court CLE.

In-person registration has closed, but there’s still time to register for the November 17 all-day Day with the Courts CLE!  Remote attendance is only $75.  Click here to see the full schedule and access the remote registration link.

After five years off, this popular all-day CLE is back! Sponsored by the Appellate Section, this CLE will feature judges from both appellate courts.  You can view the schedule here.

Register now for the in-person or remote viewing options!  In-person attendance is capped at 100 people and registration closes at noon on November 10; remote registration is open until noon on November 16.

The CLE will cover the following topics:

• New Judge Roundtable with Justices Bushong, James, and Masih, and Judge Jacquot
• Appellate Advocacy Nuts & Bolts with Justice DeHoog and Judges Aoyagi, Kamins, and Shorr
• State of the Courts Post-Pandemic with Chief Justice Flynn
• Lunch with a Judge
• Motions with Chief Judge Lagesen, Judge Egan, and Appellate Commissioner Kidd
• Candor, Civility & Credibility with Justices Duncan and Garrett, and Judges Hellman, Joyce, Pagán, Powers, and Tookey
• Shifting the Paradigm of Access to Justice with Judges Ortega and Mooney, and Staff Attorney Anna Belais
• Oral Argument from a Practitioner’s Perspective

Credits: Approximately 6.0 CLE credits, including 1.0 Ethics credit and 1.0 Access to Justice credit

General in-person registration is $150, with a discount of $75 for government attorneys, public interest attorneys, and attorneys earning less than $65,000 per year.

Remote registration is $75.

Due to the weather conditions in Salem, the Chief Justice has issued this order extending the time limits for conventionally-filed documents in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Tax Court: CJO 23-007_Order Extending Time Limits for Conventionally Filed Documents for Appellate Courts and Tax Court.  Stay safe out there!

It’s live – you can read the 2022 Almanac now!

Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO) provides free legal services for eligible low-income clients.  The LASO Salem Regional Office has a statewide appellate referral program for cases likely to have a broad impact on access to justice issues, or cases that are likely to broadly affect low-income Oregonians, survivors of domestic violence, tenants, or other clients typically served by LASO.  Appellate services include consultations with experienced attorneys and possible representation in civil and administrative appeals before the Oregon Court of Appeals and Oregon Supreme Court.  You may also request LASO to appear as amicus curiae on behalf of the organization.  To make an appellate referral, please use the LASO Appellate Outreach Instructions and Form.  For more information about appellate referrals, please contact Rachael Federico at [email protected].

The OSB Appellate Practice Section is currently recruiting OSB members to serve as members-at-large on our 2022 Executive Committee.

The Appellate Practice Section Executive Committee manages the activities of the section. Executive Committee work ranges from planning CLE programs and networking events, producing informational newsletters and other publications, tracking relevant legislation, and developing ways to increase diversity and promote inclusion to improve the practice of law and our ability to serve our community. We work closely with members of the appellate courts and Appellate Commissioner’s Office to bring opportunities for engagement between the bench and bar, assist in the management of the Oregon Appellate Court Pro Bono Program, and publish the Oregon Appellate Almanac.

Member-at-large terms are two years. They begin on January 1, 2023.

If you are interested in serving, please email a 1-2 paragraph statement of interest, including information about your experience and your particular interest in contributing to the Section, to [email protected]. Statements of interest are due by Thursday, December 1.

The Court of Appeals has issued its temporary amendments to the ORAP concerning issuance of nonprecedential opinions as well as a media release addressing those changes.  The amendments apply to ORAP 5.20, 5.40, 5.55, and 6.25, and create a new temporary rule 10.30.  The amendments and temporary rule will become effective on June 1 and will expire on December 31, 2024.