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OSB

I'm not too sure how the "oregon State Bar" should be handled in this page.

It's a so called 'integrated bar' which is a government agency for some purposes and a private trade association for others, often called a "Quasi public" agency. Consequently although for some purposes it is a public agency, it is governed by a board elected by the lawyers, and the employees of the Bar are not government employees.Rvannatta 00:17, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ideally someone will get around to writing Oregon State Bar, as about 13 articles link to it and many more could. That would be the best way to handle it, then on this article move the current info to it's own sub-section with a "see main" and brief mention of what the bar does and the relation to the OJD. What is there now is basically a regurjitation from the OJD website altered to avoid COPYVIO problems. As a lawyer you have more insight into the bar, I only keep getting the "join now as a law student" letters wanting money. And other than the PR class with the ethics violations info, I have little knowledge of how the OSB works. Aboutmovies 00:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You haven't missed much if you haven't figured it out. The Bar is a self governing trade union. Like the plumbers and the steamfitters, it controls its own membership via control of the admissions and discipline. Until they lost a few antitrust cases for price fixing, they fixed prices as well. to be sure the Supreme court has the last word on admissions and major discipline, but then the bar usually hasmajor input as to who is appointed to the supreme court so that sort of goes round and round.

Similarly the bar is the source of rules requiring lawyers to have 'Continuing Legal eduation', i.e. on going training on various topics, and also happens to be the major marketer of classes needed for compliance.

finally the bar through a subsidiary is the premiere marketer of Errors and omissions insurance in Oregon, and of course, the source of the rules making that insurance coverage mandatory for most active members.

yes, I am, have been, and remain a member in good standing as I have for 37 years, but it might be just as well if I did not right the page for them. It might turn out like the pages on logging that Greenpeace and the Sierra club have ghost written--a view through a pair of glasses that is not very well balanced.Rvannatta 01:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alright then. But once an article is created it would be great if you could look it over to make sure it looks right. Aboutmovies 18:30, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

that I can handleRvannatta 06:01, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Oregon Judicial Department v. Judiciary of Oregon

This article is only about the OJD, a specific government agency. It is not about the Judiciary of Oregon, which would include city courts and a few justice courts and a few county courts. I guess you would even through in tribal courts. Aboutmovies (talk) 02:35, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the clarification, @Aboutmovies:. The article is ambiguous about that, and should be clarified that the Oregon Judicial Department is a government agency and in fact, not the "official" name of the judiciary branch of government in the U.S. state of Oregon. CookieMonster755 𝚨-𝛀 03:56, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]