Rule 4.5 Participation in Legal, Educational, Religious, Charitable, Fraternal, and Civic Organizations or Activities

Civic Organizations and Activities

(A) Except as provided in Subsection (B), a judge may not personally solicit funds for an organization or entity.

(B) So long as the procedures employed are not coercive, a judge may personally solicit funds for an organization or entity from members of the judge's family, or from judges over whom the judge does not exercise supervisory or appellate authority, and the judge may assist the judge's minor children with fundraising.

(C) Subject to Subsection (A) and Subsection (D), and so long as the procedures employed are not coercive, a judge may participate in activities sponsored by organizations or entities devoted to the law, legal education, the legal system, or the administration of justice, and those sponsored by or on behalf of not for profit, public or private, legal, educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, or civic organizations, including but not limited to the following activities:

(1) assisting such an organization or entity in fundraising, management, and investment of the organization's or entity's funds;

(2) speaking at, receiving an award or other recognition at, or being featured on the program of such an organization or entity;

(3) serving as an officer, director, trustee, or nonlegal advisor of, and soliciting membership for, such an organization or entity;

(D) A judge may not engage in activities described in Subsection (C) if it is likely that the organization or entity will frequently be engaged in adversary proceedings in the state courts of Oregon.

(E) So long as the procedures employed are not coercive, a judge may personally encourage or solicit lawyers to provide publicly available pro bono legal services.