Portland, OR, Sept. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oregon.Legal, a free public reference cross-linking all of Oregon's statutes, administrative rules, and court rules, launched Tuesday, September 1st, 2026, at oregon.legal: 77,236 legal provisions across 80,656 pages, connected by 138,355 citation links. Published by Romano Law, P.C., the site makes Oregon law genuinely accessible to the people it governs, with every provision on its own page and every citation a working link.
Oregon's own statutes, administrative rules, and court rules already exist online, published across the Legislature, the Secretary of State's office, and 27 separate judicial districts. None of it is connected. The Oregon Revised Statutes live in one place. Administrative rules live in another, maintained by a different office. Each judicial district posts its own local court rules as an individual document, in an individual format, on an individual page. These bodies of law constantly reference and depend on one another, a statute implemented by an administrative rule, a procedural rule modified by a local rule, but nothing connects them. A person trying to look up what the law actually says is expected to already know where every piece lives and how the pieces relate.
Oregon.Legal is the first place all of it has been assembled, cross-referenced, and linked in one system. Every provision is published on its own page, every citation is a working link, and the relationships between statutes, regulations, and court rules are made explicit in both directions.
What it contains
Oregon.Legal currently publishes:
- 34,730 sections of the Oregon Revised Statutes (2025 Edition)
- 40,795 rules of the Oregon Administrative Rules
- 85 rules of the Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure
- 247 rules of the Uniform Trial Court Rules (2026 edition)
- 1,379 rules of Supplementary Local Rules across 26 of Oregon's 27 judicial districts. The 27th remains under review: its own source document contains a genuine identifier conflict that is being resolved with the court rather than guessed at.
In total, 77,236 individual legal provisions across 80,656 published pages, connected by 138,355 working citation links between them.
Every page states its official source, edition, effective date, and the date it was last verified, and links back to the original government publication so any provision can be checked at its origin. The site is free, carries no advertising, and requires no account.
Why it was built
Access to justice, the principle that people should be able to understand and exercise their legal rights regardless of their ability to pay for a lawyer, is a recurring focus of Oregon State Bar continuing legal education and a policy priority the Bar has formally emphasized for years.
Every source used to build Oregon.Legal is public record. The Oregon Legislature and the Oregon Judicial Department, whose own 2025-2027 budget totals more than $1 billion, already publish this material online, albeit in a fractured and offensively inefficient and inaccessible manner.
A person is left to already know that a statute has an implementing rule, that a rule has a governing court procedure, that a procedure has a county-specific local rule, and to independently locate each one on a different agency's website in a different format.
Fixing that did not require new legislation, a new agency, or a new appropriation. It required a private citizen to do the work.
“Ordinary people frequently cannot afford to hire a lawyer or pay for a subscription to WestLaw or LexisNexis merely to learn what the law says,” said Michael G. Romano, the Portland trial lawyer who compiled and maintains Oregon.Legal. “Most aren't looking for strategy or advantage. They simply want to know which rule governs their situation, what it requires, and how it fits within the rules around it. That's a question about access to justice, and it's the part of this problem technology can easily solve.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, my father, a lawyer in Arizona, had his secretary drive me and my sister to computer camp at the University of Arizona to learn how to program BASIC on Apple IIe computers. Later in law school, I spent whatever free time I had after studying coding websites for fun, including what was for a brief time the most popular and comprehensive Glock website in the world.
I spent a great deal of time planning and developing Oregon.Legal not because anyone asked me to, or because it will be a money maker, but because I love this state, I love the law, and I believe everyone deserves to know their legal rights. Public, accessible law is not a modern courtesy. It is the oldest promise a government makes to the people it governs. Eight centuries ago, Magna Carta put it more simply: ‘To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay, right or justice.’”
Oregon.Legal is a project of Romano Law, P.C. and is not itself a law firm or a source of legal advice.
Availability
Oregon.Legal is available now at oregon.legal.
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About Romano Law, P.C.
Romano Law, P.C. is a Portland, Oregon law firm representing clients in family law, criminal defense, and DUI matters. Founded in 2006 by attorney Michael G. Romano, the firm also maintains Oregon.Legal, a free public reference to Oregon statutes, administrative rules, and court rules. For more information, visit: romanolawpc.com and Oregon.Legal.
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