WUCL Oregon Criminal Defense Law Student Association

Meet the 2023-2024 OCDLSA board!

2023 Investigation Seminar
Seeing Is Believing: Making and Analyzing Videos

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday, May 12
Lewis & Clark Law School 10101 S. Terwilliger Blvd. Portland
Visit OCDLA's Website to sign up

OCDLA welcomes back the investigators' seminar with a full day jam-packed with information about videos. How to make them, review them, and analyze them. Get up to speed on the increasingly common use of surveillance video in discovery and learn how to create and edit your own short video production.

Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association is the parent organization for OCDLSA. OCDLA focuses on championing justice, promoting individual rights and supporting the legal defense community through education and advocacy.

OCDLSA will be holding a review session with Justice Bronson tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18th, to go over Crim Pro & Crim Law in room 218 from 5-6 pm. You are welcome to bring friends.

Anyone who has already taken the classes & wants to volunteer to help out is welcome to come to the review or donate an outline.

Reminder that OCDLSA will be having our general meeting on Monday April 17th from 12:30-1:20 and lunch will be provided.

TOMORROW OCDLA's Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee is hosting a social hour at Archive Coffee & Bar from 6:00-8:00 PM. For more information contact Tristen Edwards at [email protected] or Sara Foroshani at [email protected]!

Join Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (OCDLA) members for a panel with Justin N. Rosas, Founding Attorney at The Law Office of Justin Rosas. The event will have Azuls Taco House and be a great opportunity to learn about private criminal defense.

Through a streamlined effort —
prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges worked
through more than 100 criminal cases in a 6-week time
span in February and March. Read more about the
new Wingspan III program in Washington County here!

Washington Co. district attorney reveals results of program aimed to address criminal defense attorney shortage Through a streamlined effort — prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges worked through more than 100 criminal cases in a 6-week time span in February and March.

Mark your calendars for OCDLA's Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee is hosting a social hour at Archive Coffee & Bar from 6:00-8:00 PM. For more information contact Tristen Edwards at [email protected] or Sara Foroshani at [email protected]!

If you are interested in running please email Jana Baker ([email protected]) the following information by April 10th at 5pm:

(1) Your name;
(2) Position you are running for;
(3) Short Bio; and
(4) Why you're running for that position

Elections will be held in person during a general body meeting on April 17, 12:30 - 1:30

Join Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (OCDLA) members for a panel about criminal defense the panel will include:

Shannon Wilson from the nonprofit Public Defenders of Marion County(PDMC), Michael Bertholf from Southern Oregon who has a public defense contract with the state, Jeff Jorgensen, who is a member of the adult criminal consortium and juvenile consortium in Marion Co, Josh Crowther from OPDS Appellate, and Tristen Edwards form Metropolitan Public Defender.

There will be free pizza & this is an excellent event to network & learn about current job opportunities.