nonprofit civil legal-aid organization
Oregon Law Center
Industry Legal
An Oregon nonprofit civil legal-aid organization with regional and farmworker offices across the state. It scores this way because free civil legal services, farmworker representation, public-benefits help, and rights advocacy serve people with weak bargaining power, while governance remains nonprofit-board mediated rather than directly member controlled.
Why this matters: Oregon Law Center gives the map statewide Oregon legal-service coverage across the coast, Portland metro, Willamette Valley, Southern Oregon, and Eastern Oregon.
Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
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Evaluation Overview
A - Good
The score turns mainly on Extraction; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.
Strengths
- Extraction8/10
- Ownership7/10
- Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7
Penalties
- No penalties applied in this version.
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims7
- Direct axis claims7
- Coverage7/12
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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7 / 10 |
Oregon Law Center identifies itself as a nonprofit organization providing free legal help to people struggling to make ends meet. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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5 / 10 |
Oregon Law Center's core work is civil legal services in areas such as housing, benefits, family safety, employment, consumer issues, civil rights, and farmworker law. Linked evidence
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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8 / 10 |
Oregon Law Center's core work is civil legal services in areas such as housing, benefits, family safety, employment, consumer issues, civil rights, and farmworker law. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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4 / 7 |
Oregon Law Center's core work is civil legal services in areas such as housing, benefits, family safety, employment, consumer issues, civil rights, and farmworker law. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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7 / 7 |
Oregon Law Center's mission is to achieve justice for low-income communities of Oregon through high-quality civil legal services. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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7 / 7 |
Oregon Law Center's core work is civil legal services in areas such as housing, benefits, family safety, employment, consumer issues, civil rights, and farmworker law. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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5 / 5 |
Oregon Law Center lists client-service offices in Coos Bay, Grants Pass, Gresham, Hillsboro, Eugene, McMinnville, Portland, Ontario, Salem, St. Helens, and Woodburn. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Oregon Law Center's core work is civil legal services in areas such as housing, benefits, family safety, employment, consumer issues, civil rights, and farmworker law. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
Oregon Law Center's core work is civil legal services in areas such as housing, benefits, family safety, employment, consumer issues, civil rights, and farmworker law. Linked evidence
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Penalties
No penalties applied in this version.
Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public
dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
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2 / 3 |
Oregon Law Center describes legal advocacy, needs assessment, and public-affairs work focused on domestic violence, housing, public benefits, employment, and rights issues. Linked evidence
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Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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3 / 3 |
Oregon Law Center frames legal aid as access to justice under the rule of law for low-income Oregonians. Linked evidence
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Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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3 / 3 |
Oregon Law Center provides free civil legal help in situations where people otherwise face legal systems without affordable counsel. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 74/100
7 verified linked claims 7 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 7/12 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 20/20
7 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 9/18
7 direct claims across 12 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 15, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 6/10
7/12 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Oregon Law Center identifies itself as a nonprofit organization providing free legal help to people struggling to make ends meet.
- Oregon Law Center missionGeneral web source · 58%
2Oregon Law Center lists client-service offices in Coos Bay, Grants Pass, Gresham, Hillsboro, Eugene, McMinnville, Portland, Ontario, Salem, St. Helens, and Woodburn.
- Oregon Law Center officesGeneral web source · 58%
3Oregon Law Center's core work is civil legal services in areas such as housing, benefits, family safety, employment, consumer issues, civil rights, and farmworker law.
- Oregon Law Center missionGeneral web source · 58%
4Oregon Law Center's mission is to achieve justice for low-income communities of Oregon through high-quality civil legal services.
- Oregon Law Center missionGeneral web source · 58%
5Oregon Law Center describes legal advocacy, needs assessment, and public-affairs work focused on domestic violence, housing, public benefits, employment, and rights issues.
- Oregon Law Center missionGeneral web source · 58%
6Oregon Law Center frames legal aid as access to justice under the rule of law for low-income Oregonians.
- Oregon Law Center missionGeneral web source · 58%
7Oregon Law Center provides free civil legal help in situations where people otherwise face legal systems without affordable counsel.
- Oregon Law Center officesGeneral web source · 58%
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