Using Oregon Law Help in Your Work

Oregon Law Help is a free, trusted legal information site you can use to support the people you serve. This website is a partnership between the Oregon courts, legal aid providers, and the Oregon State Bar.

Whether you’re a medical provider, social worker, teacher, advocate, or attorney, Oregon Law Help helps you quickly find clear, plain-language legal information and tools to share with clients, patients, students, or community members. 

What you can find on this site

• Legal information: More than 200 plain-language legal articles written and reviewed by Oregon lawyers. Our content is updated regularly to reflect changes in Oregon law.
• Free and low-cost legal help: More than 100 statewide legal referrals to legal aid offices, pro bono projects, nonprofits, law libraries, ombuds offices, and other government services.
• External guides from trusted sources: Booklets, videos, and tools from trusted partners like the courts, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.
• Forms: Our articles guide people to court forms created by the Oregon Judicial Department. We also create and maintain a small library of non-court forms, including sample letters, delegation of parental authority, and more.

How to find things on this site

• Step-by-step help: Our Guided Help Tool walks users through common legal scenarios and matches them with articles, guides, forms, and referrals.
• Browse: Use our content library or site index page to browse by topic.
• Search: Use the magnifying glass in the upper right corner to search by keywords or short phrases.
• Follow links: All our articles link to related content or court forms and have resource cards at the bottom pointing you to external guides.

Ideas for using Oregon Law Help with clients and the public

• Intake and triage: Share articles with callers or use topic pages or the Guided Help tool to identify legal issues.
• Before an appointment: Text or email articles so clients can understand basic legal concepts and prepare questions.
• After an appointment: Share follow-up articles related to topic discussed.
• Supporting self-represented litigants: Print, text, or email articles or forms or point people to relevant information.
• Community education: Use articles and guides for clinics, workshops, outreach, or staff training.

Sharing Oregon Law Help with the public

• Business cards or rack cards: Print and share Oregon Law Help outreach materials. Leave them in offices, waiting rooms, or community spaces. Hand them out at outreach events
• Posters: Print our Oregon Law Help posters and hang them in lobbies or waiting rooms.
• Sharing tools: Use the text / email icons on our article pages to share information directly through our site. No need to use your work email or phone.
• Print tool: Use the print tool on article pages for clients or to create outreach materials for events.

Request training

Our team is happy to share information or updates about Oregon Law Help at your staff trainings or community meetings. You can email us at portal@osbar.org to request training.

Reporting errors or providing feedback

We rely on user feedback to keep content accurate and current. Contact us at portal@osbar.org or use our feedback form if you notice: 

• Incorrect information.
• Broken links.
• Outdated content.
• A program missing from our legal directory.

Staying in the loop

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