Clallam County lawyers & legal news
Ruth Mollinet, 2025 president of the Clallam County Bar Association, announced CCBA will resume bar lunch meetings for local lawyers with speakers and CLE credits.
Email the Bar President for dates and schedules and location.
The first CLE will be on January 24, 2025. Clallam County Prosecutor Mark Nichols will be the speaker on the topic of proposed changes to public defender case loads and the impact on the legal community and community at large.
Jeanne Marie Clavere will host an ethics CLE on December 9, 2022, at 12:00PM (Noon) at Kokopelli Grill, 203 E. Front St., Port Angeles, WA 98362. Lunch will be available, ordering from the restaurant menu.
Ms. Clavere’s presentation is titled “Ethics Issues and Conflict of Interest Analyses in a Small Legal Community.” She invites you to send to James Rodriguez any particular issues that you would like her to address. If you have situational questions for Ms. Clavere, please send them to him by Monday, December 5, and he will compile them for her. She will also be taking questions during her presentation.
This will be an ethics credit for CLE purposes and there is a suggested donation of $30 to the Clallam Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers. Donations can be made at www.cjcpbl.org or by mail to P.O. Box 901, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
What is going on at the WSBA? You are invited to have lunch with President Bill Pickett, and Interim Executive Director Terra Nevitt on September 18. They are embarking on the 2019 Listening Tour across the state in an ongoing effort to listen to member comments individually. Please join us as we head to Port Angeles.
WSBA Listening Tour in Port Angeles
When: Wednesday, September 18, 12:00 p.m.
Where: Kokopelli Grill – 203 East Front Street, Port Angeles, WA 98362
This is your opportunity to ask questions, share ideas, and offer comments as the WSBA plans for the future. Your input matters and we hope to see you there.
*Space can be limited so please send in your RSVP to [email protected].
Please join the Clallam County Bar Association for their CLE on June 7, 2019, Chemical dependency treatment and the justice system by Stormy Howell, J.D. The program starts at noon at the usual location. For more information, contact CCBA President Donna Knifsend at 360-670-9406.
The May 17, 2019 bar lunch CLE focuses on discovery, depositions and trial advocacy. If you don’t know Sal, the presenter, you should! I have seen him present before and highly recommend. More information about Sal is below.
All CLE donations directly support Clallam Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers.
Ariel Speser
Past President, CCBA
“The highest calling of any lawyer is to give a voice to those who have no voice and to restore hope to those who have forgotten what hope looks like.”
Salvador Mungia
Salvador A. Mungia
Over the last 30 years, Salvador A. Mungia has worked vigorously to advance equal justice. Sal has committed his career not only to his clients but also to the improvement of the justice system. He has served his profession by being president of the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association in 1999, president of the Washington State Bar Association in 2009, chair of the Equal Justice Coalition from 2016-2017, and he currently serves on the board of the Endowment for Equal Justice and the Washington State Access to Justice Board. However, Sal considers his highest achievements as those times when he has represented individuals in both state and federal court, both individually and in class actions, free of charge to protect their rights so that he can do his part to ensure that those without any power are not taken advantage of.
A partner at Gordon Thomas Honeywell, Sal generously gives his time, his money, and brings unbridled enthusiasm to the legal community in his quest to serve and make a difference in the lives of those for whom justice is frequently out of reach. He has devoted thousands of hours of pro bono representation in class action and individual civil rights cases and where fees have been awarded, he has donated them back. Sal’s leadership, accomplishments, and his lifelong dedication to civil legal aid are recognized by the Tacoma Pierce County Bar Association, Washington State Bar Association, Access to Justice Board, Washington Association for Justice, ACLU of Washington, Northwest Immigrant Right’s Project and Endowment for Equal Justice, among others.
Sal is the type of leader many aspire to be and the legal aid community is proud to recognize and honor him.
Ariel Speser
Seattle University School of Law Dean Annette Clark is the guest speaker for the Clallam Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers’ annual Law Day celebration on Friday, May 3rd.
If you have attended Law Day in the past, you know this event is a great opportunity to reconnect with friends and colleagues and celebrate our achievements in providing free civil legal aid in our community. The theme for this year’s Law Day, Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society- focuses on these cornerstones of representative government and calls on us to understand and protect these rights to ensure, as the U.S. Constitution proposes, “the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity”.
Last year’s event was a sellout so we encourage you to sign up soon! RSVP today to reserve your spot and obtain location information. Email us at [email protected] or call 360.504.2422. The lunch is noon to 1:15, and the ex parte calendar will start late that day.
The Veterans Stand Down in Forks is Thursday, May 2nd from 9:00-3:00. Each year hundreds of Veterans receive critical care and services at these events. At last year’s Stand Down in Clallam County we provided advice and consultation for 31 Veterans! This is an important event and volunteers are needed. It’s being held at the Elks Lodge in Forks. Breakfast and lunch are complimentary for volunteers and attendees.
Please email me if you an make it!
Shauna Rogers McClain
Executive Director
Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers
360.504.2422
Clallam County Bar Association CLE: Union Lawyering by Jacob F. Metzger, Esq. with Douglas Drachler McKee & Gilbrough, LLP from noon to 1:00 pm at Kokopelli Grill in Port Angeles. Jacob’s law firm focuses on Labor Law, Immigration Law and Social Security Disability Law. Learn more at https://www.ddmgseattle.com/.
All day CLE. More details forthcoming.
Topic: Ethics of Representing Pro Bono and Moderate Means clients by Jeanne Marie Clavere of Washington State Bar Association from noon to 1:00 pm at Kokopelli Grill in Port Angeles.