Where do you go to file a complaint about an Oregon attorney? 

The Oregon State Bar will now accept your citizen complaint if you send it to them by email!
The Oregon State Bar doesn't want to open your attachments, so if you are sending evidence too, maybe you should just send it all to them by mail;

SMorrill@osbar.org

 

The Oregon State Bar will accept your complaint if you fax it to them.  Their fax number is:  (503) 684 1366

File directly with the Oregon Bar; Do you want a copy of a citizen complaint against an Oregon Attorney?  It's a public record and the Oregon State Bar MUST give it to you. Write to this guy:


Jeff Sapiro, Esq.
Head of Disciplinary Department
  Oregon State Bar
  5200 SW Meadows Rd.
  P O Box 1689
  Lake Oswego OR 97035-0889

YOUR COMPLAINT AGAINST AN OREGON ATTORNEY...DID THE OREGON STATE BAR IGNORE OR SWEEP IT UNDER THE RUG ?  The State Legislature feeds the Oregon Bar and writes laws that the Oregon Bar must obey.  

Tell your legislator if the Oregon State Bar failed in it's duty;  click here

Tell the Oregon Governor (although as an Oregon State Bar member, he's got his ethical lapses too); click

Give us a copy.  email

 

   
 
Alert the Press! 

 File your complaint with the Oregon Bar, then give a copy to the press... 
click to view by Oregon county

 

Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association

click onto this link for the newspaper in your area
http://www.orenews.com/cgi-bin/dbpages/showGMlinks.cgi

 

When you file a complaint against an Oregon attorney, include at least two copies of your complaint.  Demand that the Oregon State Bar stamp  "Received by the Oregon State Bar" or some such language.  Put an envelope inside your packet to the Bar with enough postage so that the stamped copies can be mailed back to you.  Write you address on the envelope so they can mail the stamped complaint copies back to you.

Send one of the original stamped copies to me and I will post your privileged, public record complaint on Oregon State Bar Reporter (not affiliated with Oregon State Bar)    e mail for my address (see Ramstead v. Morgan 219 Or 383, 347 P2d 594, 598 (1959)

If the Oregon State Bar attempts to summarily dismiss your complaint, ignore you or attempts to sweep your Constitutionally mandated right to Petition [Amend. 1] under the rug GIVE ME A COPY OF THAT DOCUMENT AS WELL.  When that happened to me I filed a new document to appeal the Disciplinary Department's decision.  I received a copy of a letter that the Oregon State Bar sent to the Oregon lawyers that under BR 2.5(a)  that the matter was submitted to the State Professional Responsibility Board for their further consideration.  These lawyers were then told that they submit "whatever information to deem relevant to the Board's review of this matter" and that the Board likes to hear "both sides of the story."  This even though the Oregon Bar's Disciplinary Department ignored the initial complaint and dismissed it.

Keep us up to date on what the lawyer files and what you file with the Oregon State Bar.  Obtain copies stamped by the Oregon State Bar and I will post them right here for other consumers of legal services to read and learn.

   If the Oregon State Bar won't do it's job then our job will be to let everyone know that, including our elected State Representatives.  Its our courthouse, its our law; it doesn't belong to the lawyers.  The law written by our legislature, administered by our judges, courthouses built with our tax money and salaries paid by our tax money; they all belong to you. The buildings, the law, the judges and their assistants; they are only there to serve you.  Don't you forget that.  We have the power to change what is wrong.