Archive for the 'CLE' Category

Guardian ad Litem training in Bremerton

The Seventh Annual Certified Professional Guardian Continuing Education Conference; Wed, Thur March 30, 31 2010 at Kitsap Conference Center at Bremerton Harborside, 100 Washington Ave, Bremerton, WA 360-377-3785 CLE for attorney has been submitted to WSBA contact Bridge Builders, LTD at 360-683-8334; PO Box 182 Sequim, WA www.bridgebldrs.com for more information.

Bar lunch CLE’s: upcoming dates

Feb 5 — Court Clerk and Court Administrator, Barbara Christensen and Melinda Clevenger will speak to the bar to discuss their areas, recent changes and suggestions for practice procedures.

Feb 19 — Electronic Discovery — Will Payne — 1.0 hour approval pending — Discuss the recent changes and additions to FRCP and WA position on electronic discover; issues we face in obtaining and providing electronic discovery. Electronic discovery includes all types of electronically created evidence, such as e-mail messages and associated file attachments (the e-mail “chain”), memos, reports,plain text files, spreadsheets, digital art and photos, presentations,data stored in proprietary databases, voice mails, instant messages,and any other data that is created or stored on a computer, computer network or other electronic storage media. Metadata may also be discussed.

Mar 5 — An Ounce of Prevention … How Acting to Preserve the Record for Appeal Can Help You Win (at Trial Too) — 1.0 hour approval pending — Tutorial on how to create a complete and comprehensible trial record. Peter Lohnes of Talmadge/Fitzpatrick.

New Ways for Families CLE

Training for the New Ways for Families program is confirmed and the information is below.

TRAINING:
Cost: $20
CLE credit: 1.5
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Time 8-9:30
Location: Peninsula Community Mental Health Center, 118 E. 8th Street,
Port Angeles
Trainer: Bill Eddy (program designer)

New Ways is a counseling/life skills-training program for parents involved in custody issues (divorce, paternity and dependency) and is designed to reduce parental conflict and in particular the exposure of that conflict to the children. It is based on several research studies, including the new longitudinal study from La Trobe University which provides strong research findings that facilitating the parents to “hear” their children makes a decided and enduring difference in the reduction of conflict, reduction of litigation, improvement in the stability of families, and satisfaction of parents with parenting arrangements.

Bill Eddy, the New Ways developer, will be in Victoria, and has graciously offered to come to Port Angeles the following day to do the training in person. At this time, we have about 15 counselors from Clallam and Jefferson committed to take the training (including PCMHC), and most of the family law bar as well. The program will have the most impact if counselors, judges and attorneys understand the program, so I do recommend all family law attorneys take the training. Three (cheap) CLE credits are provided, and a solid grounding in this tool will help you help your clients maximize whatever their goals may be.

The Clallam and Jefferson judges have expressed interest in the program, although they are keen for feedback from the attorneys and are truly interested in cooperative efforts with the bar. I encourage everyone to communicate with the judges if you have any thoughts or opinions about the program, pro or con.

You can find more info at:

http://highconflictinstitute.com/

Please feel free to call me if you have any questions or would like to know more about the program.

Regards,
Mark Baumann
360-452-8688

http://markbaumann.com/new-ways-for-families™

Parenting Summit: Celebrating our Kids

Saturday, May 16, 2009, 8:30-1:00
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
$5 fee, 4.5 CEU’s provided
Contact Jennifer Charles, 360-417-2384

A one day parenting summit and training will be presented with Kevin Haggerty, MSW, University of Washington, School of Social Work as the keynote speaker.

The program will begin with a PARADE OF LEADERS, including:
· School Superintendent, Diane Reaume
· Clallam County Sheriff
· Pediatrician, Mildred Bay, M.D.
· Clallam County Commissioners
· Peninsula Daily News, Jim Casey
· Commissioner Brent Basden
· Port Angeles and/or Forks Mayors
· County Tribes
· Peninsula College, Barbara Clampett
· Faith Community, Vicki Corson
· Jewish Community, Roland Pfaff
· United Way
· Clallam County Literacy Council, Rebecca Redshaw
· CPS
· Foster Parents, Martha Hastings
· Representing Youth Groups Gina Royal
· Service Clubs, Patti Hannah
· SNAP, Stuber
· Spanish Parents, Lilia Dodd
· Child Care Providers

A variety of breakout sessions  on parenting topics will be offered by speakers including: Karen Meyer, Speakers, Rosemary Newday, Lynn Sharpe, Lilia Dodd, Manuela Velasquez , Dan Maguire, Tracey Hosselkus, Larry Dunn, Sterling Epps, Ann Penn and Mark Baumann

CLE: Attachment and the Foster Child

Attachement and the Foster Child

Randi Hankins, noted speaker on the dominant approach to childhood attachment theory, will be presenting on March 25, 2009, at the Port Angeles, WA, DCFS office at 201 W. 1st Street, from 9-4. There is no cost for this seminar.

Topics include:
- Trauma and its impact
- How trauma and attachment problems impact behavior
- Running away, power struggles, defiant behavior
- Real tools for caregives
- Strategies to improve behavior and attachment
- Parenting skills

To register, email Bill Todd

“Although not without its critics, attachment theory has been described as the dominant approach to understanding early social development and to have given rise to a great surge of empirical research into the formation of children’s close relationships.[17] As it is presently formulated and used for research purposes, Bowlby’s attachment theory stresses the following important tenets: 1) children between 6 and about 30 months are very likely to form emotional attachments to familiar caregivers, especially if the adults are sensitive and responsive to child communications. 2) The emotional attachments of young children are shown behaviorally in their preferences for particular familiar people, their tendency to seek proximity to those people, especially in times of distress, and their ability to use the familiar adults as a secure base from which to explore the environment. 3) The formation of emotional attachments contributes to the foundation of later emotional and personality development, and the type of behavior toward familiar adults shown by toddlers has some continuity with the social behaviors they will show later in life. 4) Events that interfere with attachment, such as abrupt separation of the toddler from familiar people or the significant inability of carers to be sensitive, responsive or consistent in their interactions, have short-term and possible long-term negative impacts on the child’s emotional and cognitive life.”
From Wikipedia.com,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowlby#The_.22Attachment_and_Loss.22_trilogy

CLE: DV Conference, south Seattle

The Children & Families Experiencing Domestic Violence Conference on March 25th at South Seattle Community College is an opportunity for professionals and community members to learn more about how domestic violence affects the families in your community. The Conference is planned around four main themes including:
Primary Prevention
Engaging and Working with Domestic Violence Perpetrators as Parents
Supporting the Needs of Domestic Violence Survivors and their Children
Working with Maltreated Children and their Families in Court Dependency Processes

Conference presenters are some of the best in the domestic violence field from across the country. Three nationally known presenters include: Larry Cohen, Executive Director and Founder of the Prevention Institute; Professor Jeffrey Edleson, University of Minnesota; and Anne Ganley, University of Washington PLUS 18 additional speakers from the Puget Sound area will present. Laura Porter, Staff Director of the Family Policy Council, will present on The Dynamics of Thriving in Washington State!

The Conference fee of $55 includes all materials, continental breakfast and lunch with registration before March 23rd (registration increases to $75 on March 23rd). A brochure is attached to this email for you to check out.

To register simply log onto http://www.skccn.com/ChildDVconf.asp and click on the registration button. You will be able to view the full agenda plus speaker bios. Registration is by purchase order or credit card. Special arrangements for checks can be made by contacting conference coordinator, Dianne Heide, at dheide@skccn.com.

Bar Lunch: 3/20/09, CLE, The First 30 Words

Dear Bar Members:

Our next meeting is March 20, 2009, at noon. We meet at Soho Asian Bistro where the lunch is $13.00 (which includes tip). Please confirm your attendance by Friday, 3/13/09, if at all possible so we can advise Soho of the number of expected attendees.

We are having a CLE on 3/20/09 with an expectation of some kind of nifty electronics (The First 30 Words by R. Craig Smith). Please make best efforts to plan on being present.

The following issues were discussed on March 6, 2009:

Law Tech Letter: Kathleen McCormick will be drafting a letter for review. Once in draft form, it will be circulated through the Bar email for review, revision & responses. We have a deadline for presentation to the Supreme Court so that will be included.

Yellow Pages: The yellow pages issue will not be pursued further.

Scholarship Notebooks: We will either obtain information from Sequim Schools or turn to PA Schools if they do not respond. The plan is to give at the same level and number as last year.

Training Proposals: Please feel free to volunteer yourself or others.

Law Day: We are checking into possible locations. Sal Mungia will speak. Expect more details shortly.

Thanks,
Carol M.
2009 Pres

CLE: Clallam Legal 1

Presented by Clallam County Pro Bono Lawyers this is a one day CLE. For detailed topic information contact Carol Mortensen, 360-452-1112

Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
Time 9:00 –  4:30
CLE credit: 5 general and 1 ethics (approval pending)
Location: Port Angeles City Hall Chambers room
321 East 5th Street, Port Angeles WA
Cost: $150 prepaid, $175 day of
Topic: various topics including A view from the bench by Supreme Court Justice Susan Owens, Domestic Partnerships by Teresa Neudorfer, Jury Selection by Judge George Wood, Motions in Limine by Curtis Johnson, Evidence by Judge Robin Hunt and Ethical Considerations by Judge S. Brooke Taylor and Commission W. Brent Basden.

CLE: LOMAP & Ethics… On the Road

The WSBA Lawyer Services Department will present this CLE, cost is $94, 4 Ethics credits provided

Time: 8:00 a.m. to noon. Continental Breakfast included.

August 19, 2008, Port Angeles, Red Lion Hotel
August 20, 2008, Port Townsend, Bishop Victorian Hotel

Topics include

Safeguarding Client Property
Required Trust Account Records
Minding Your Matters
Winding Down: The Golf Course Beckons
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Click here for a link to the info PDF

TED.com: Excellent lecture site

http://www.ted.com

TED.com (stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design) hosts lectures by some of the top minds of the world. Their best lectures are available for full and free viewing online.

To see an incredible lecture from their program about how the human brain functions, by a leading brain researcher from Harvard, cut and paste or click this link http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/229

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CLE: Understanding & Managing High Conflict Personalities

CLE
Understanding & Managing High Conflict Personalities
Seattle, June 18-20, 2008
Click here for more information and registration

Bill Eddy returns to Seattle to again present his very excellent on recognizing and learning what to do about High Conflict people. This year the seminar is three days, and may be taken in segments of one, two or all three days.

“I found last years program by far the single best seminar I have taken in 20 years of practice.” Mark Baumann

Day 1: Understanding & Managing High Conflict Personalities in Litigation, Negotiation & Mediation
Day 2 High Conflict Personalities in Family Law
Day 3 Advanced Skills Training

Details about the program follow: Continue reading ‘CLE: Understanding & Managing High Conflict Personalities’

Mediation Training

Peninsula Dispute Resolution Center is hosting a 40 hour basic mediation training in April.

360-452-8024 for more information

Bar Lunch: 3/7/08

There will be no speakers at the upcoming meeting.
Place: Salad Station
Date: March 7, 2008
Time: 12:00 p.m.

At our next meeting, March 21, 2008, Rob Onnen will be presenting the following CLE:
Topic: 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges and the Farm Bill

We need the following:
1. Volunteers for committee to review the proposed “Legal Technician Rule”. The Board of Governors is requesting comments on a proposed rule to allow non-attorney “technicians” to take on duties currently reserved for practicing attorneys.
2. Volunteers to review scholarship notebooks. The notebooks will be ready for review by March 20. Committee members are needed now to put together this year’s screening criteria.

See you Friday,
Patrick M. Irwin

Parenting class: Love and Logic

Becoming a Love and Logic Parent

A seven week  parent training program designed by the Nationally recognized Love & Logic Institute, and taught by Autumn Piontek-Walsh. The course is designed to give practical skills that can be used immediately.

Mondays, February 4- March 17, 2008
6:00 7:30 P.M.
First Step Family Support Center
335 East 5th Street, Port Angeles
$80 per person, includes workbook

Call Autumn Piontek-Walsh to register at 360-775-1071

Bar lunch: 2/1/08 CLE: Disability discrimination in employment

The first Friday of the month is here again!
Please join us:
Place: Salad Station
Date: February 1, 2008
Time: 12:00 p.m.
For those looking for CLE credit, I (Patrick Irwin) will be presenting on:
“An Update on Disability Discrimination in Employment:
You Can’t Fire Anybody Anymore”
There is a modest fee of $20.00 payable to Pro Bono of Clallam and Jefferson Counties.
CLE credit approval is pending.
Also, please note that Robert Vienneau, a volunteer attorney with Pro Bono, will be having a piano recital with a portion of the proceeds to benefit Clallam County Pro Bono. His flyer is attached.