Clallam County lawyers & legal news
Mark Baumann has been a member of the executive committee for the Washington State Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Section since 2008. In October, 2011, he was
appointed to the chair of the sections Media and Communications Committee. Previously, he served on the Newsletter, Website and Education committees.
The WSBA ADR section is dedicated to promoting the informed use and best practices for ADR in Washington.
Basics of Immigration Law
Friday, December 2, 2011 • 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center
905 West 9th St.
Port Angeles
This CLE will cover the basics of various areas of immigration law. Participants can expect to learn about removal and deportation litigation, temporary and permanent visas, asylum visas, and the citizenship process. The CLE will also offer practice pointers for appearing in Immigration Court and working with immigration-related government agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS).
The course has been approved for 1 general credit by the WSBA.
CLE $20.00
(Make CLE checks Payable to “Pro Bono Lawyers”)
(Your voluntary contribution supports Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers)
Buffet Lunch $9.50
(Make lunch checks payable to “Skills Center”)
Clallam County Bar Association Social Meeting
Friday November 18, 2011 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
The City of Port Angeles has issued a RFP, looking for an attorney or firm to provide public defender services. Please contact the City Attorney’s office at 360-457-0411 for more information.
Dear CCBA Members:
Nominations are being accepted now through November 14th for anyone interested in serving as president of the Association for the 2013 calendar year. If you would like to serve or would like to nominate someone for the position, please respond to this message. Voting will take place next month.
If you have any questions about the position, please feel free to contact me or the 2012 president-elect, Simon Barnhart.
All the best.
Chris Koenig
2011 President
Mark Baumann and Rachel Hardies presented High Conflict Cases: The Courage to Look at Your Behavior, at the November 4-5, 2011, Oregon Mediation Association’s annual conference, on behalf of Bill Eddy’s High Conflict Institute (HCI). Presentation materials for their OMA and NW DR conference are available here, and include their HCP Identifiers checklist, HCP Solutions Table, Equipoise article, and resource bibliography for mediators. Other materials and articles can be found at HCI.
Their OMA presentation focused on how mediators affect and are affected by high conflict personalities during mediation. Their topics included understanding high conflict personalities, understanding how conflict resolvers can get triggered and/or hooked, what assumptions conflict resolvers should be aware of and how they may need to change, the importance and difficulty of setting effective boundaries, and the strong challenge to ethics high conflict people can impose.
Listening to highly insistent emotions and applying techniques of empathy, attention and respect (EAR) are highly valuable skills in high conflict cases, not only for helping to reduce conflict by the parties, but also to help mediators and judges stay centered and reduce the effect of being triggered and unhooking.
30 presentations were made at the two-day multi-track conference.
Mr. Baumann and Ms. Hardies also presented at the two-day spring 2011 NW Dispute Resolution Conference at University of Washington, focusing on “movement” as technique for working with high conflict people.
Mark Baumann is a lawyer, mediator and associate of the High Conflict Institute, litigating in Port Angeles, mediating in Seattle, and consulting internationally on high conflict cases to professionals and individual parties.
Rachel Hardies is a therapist and parenting instructor practicing in Port Angeles, and a co-mediator with Mark Baumann.
Please join us as we welcome our new associate Joshua W. Fox, to the Platt Irwin Law Firm. Josh will be sworn in by Judge S. Brooke Taylor near the conclusion of the Clallam County Legal CLE presentation on Friday November 4, 2011, with a reception to follow from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Platt Irwin Law Firm, 403 S Peabody street in Port Angeles.
Clallam Legal IV will be held this friday at the Port Angeles City Hall chambers. As a result, the regularly
scheduled CCBA meeting at the skills center is cancelled. If you are attending Clallam Legal, a lunch break
(on your own) is scheduled between 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.