Bar Lunch

Dear Bar Members:

Sorry for late reminder. Please confirm as soon as possible your expected
attendance at the Friday, August 21, 2009, bar lunch at Soho. Rob Onnen
will be presenting Real Estate and Tax to the Bar. Despite late notice, we
hope many of you can attend (if not on vacation…).

LUNCH: $13.00 payable to Soho Asian Bistro
CLE: $20.00 payable to Pro Bono

Thanks, Carol Mortensen

Dear Bar Members:

Our next bar lunch is the first Friday of August, 8/7/09. No specific
agenda is scheduled but Rick Petersen, our president elect, will be
chairing.

Please confirm with Rick your intent to attend rather than responding to
the email for this lunch only. He can be reached at 452-3307. He will need to
advise Soho Asian Bistro of the number of expected attendees no later than
Wedensday, 8/5.

Thank you for your attention and enjoy the next bar lunch!

Carol M. & Rick P.

Dear Bar Members,

It is with sadness that we recognize a loss to the community. Mr. Frank Platt passed away last week. We offer our sympathy and condolances to the family and the members of his firm. The family will make any announcements related to his passing.

Please accept apologies for no prior notice regarding the bar lunch on Friday (you will likely see this Friday morning). We do not have any specific program. Since there was no prior notice, no one had the opportunity to confirm. As a result, I look forward to seeing those who come to lunch and anticipate ordering off the menu rather than the family style service.

You should have all heard by now that we will welcome Christopher J. Riffle to our community. Christopher Riffle is the new associate at Platt Irwin. The Firm has extended an invitation to the bar to witness Judge S. Brooke Taylor administer the oath of attorney on May 18, 2009, at 3:00 pm at the Clallam County Superior Court. Please mark your calendar to attend this swearing in. Platt Irwin will also host a reception at their offices following the swearing in and invited all attorneys and staff. It is important for us to mark and attend events like this – and celebrate with our new legal community member.

The scholarship people met tonight and selected three well qualified students as our candidates this year. I extend my personal appreciation and thanks to Tracey Lassus and Curry Andrews for their participation as well as their unique insight! We selected Dain Steenberg, Rexx Ingalls and Isaac Boekelheide as recipients. Each of them displayed a uniqueness that was clear at a glance, demonstrated academic accomplishment and a focused goal. Patrick Irwin should enjoy the opportunity to make the awards to these young men.

On the topic of CLE’s, I want to let all of you know that we now must provide the evaluation forms at every program we offer. I will ensure those are provided for your use. They are maintained for two years along with the printed materials from each speaker. Printed materials are the standard for a CLE, explanations must be provided to the Bar for CLE’s which do not have printed material. Based on the agreement with the WSBA, CLE’s must always have a connection to the Pro Bono lawyers that are the target audience of these programs. If you are providing a CLE in the upcoming months, please be sure to let me know what connection your program has to Pro Bono and what materials you will provide. As an example, a program about DUI’s gives information to attorneys aiding families in dissolutions that may not be readily known to a family attorney but have a signfiicant impact on family dynamics.

Please contact me if you have any other business or comments to share.

Thank you for your attention.

Carol L. Mortensen
2009 President

Law Day will be held at Soho Asian Bistro, as are all of our lunches. Sal Mungia, BOG Representative will be appearing.

Due to the number of attendees, the lunch price has gone up to $16.00 per person. CLE credit paid to Clallam County Pro Bono is the same ($20.00). Please confirm as soon as possible!

Dear Bar Members:

The bar lunch on April 3, 2009, does not have a scheduled speaker and will instead focus around the topic of the scholarship notebooks for this year. Due to the lack of a speaker, the only fee associated with this meeting, is the cost of the food.

Date: April 3, 2009, at noon
Place: Soho Asian Bistro (134 W. Front Street)
Lunch is $13.00 (which includes tip)

Carol Mortensen, President

Dear Bar Members:

Our next meeting is:
March 6, 2009, at Noon
Soho Asian Bistro (134 W. Front Street)
Lunch is $13.00 – which includes the tip
Please RSVP by 2/27/09 so I can provide Soho with a tentative head count.

We had 22 people at Ingrid Larson-Alexander’s presentation – thanks to all who came. CLE credit remains pending for both programs.

Our next meeting will involve several important topics so I encourage you all to attend. Our tentative agenda will include Law Day (Sal Mungia will attend!); a Family Law section report (hopefully); scholarship notebooks; yellow pages; and so on. We also have a couple of requests for presentations on collections & post-judgment collections and water law. If you know someone or are someone who would like to present – let me know.

Thank you all for your great efforts in confirming and I will look forward to seeing you March 6th!

Carol L. Mortensen

Dear Fellow Bar Members:

Thank you to the 15 people who confirmed (and appeared) at the last bar lunch! Great going!

Please confirm your attendance at the next meeting by January 30th so I can provide the number to Soho.

Our next meeting is February 6, 2009, at noon at Soho. Teresa Neudorfer will be presenting a CLE regarding the law tech issue and on recent developments in the family law area. Our local bar will then be able to send a letter to the Supreme Court on our position. Please feel free to volunteer if you would like to participate in writing the letter for consideration by our bar. Lacking volunteers, a committee will be appointed.

The Family Law Section of our local bar will have it’s first meeting of 2009 on February 13th. Among the likely topics is our local approach to settlement conferences and trials. While everyone is welcome – we are hoping that a good showing of the family law attorneys will attend. The meeting will be at noon and tentatively at Cafe Garden. Please look for the formal notice in the next two weeks.

If you know anyone who is NOT on our email list or NOT a member of our local bar – let me know. We want to be as inclusive as possible – and ensure everyone pays Cliff Tassie their dues if for no other reason than to get his annual dunning letters!
I am looking for people interested in sharing their knowledge with us through a CLE. As always, it benefits Pro Bono and at $20 per credit, a darn cheap CLE.

I am looking forward to seeing you at our next lunch –
Carol Mortensen

As a reminder, the lunch at Soho is $13.00 (includes tip). We are collecting the payment for everyone to facilitate getting payments made. If you need receipts, please let us know. If paying by debit or credit card, you will need to pay separately.

CHRISTMAS PARTY and Passing of the Torch

Come one, come all (and all of your guests) to the Bar Christmas Party and the last Bar meeting of the year!
Place: Bushwhacker
Date: Friday, December 19
Time: 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. (please note this party is in lieu of the bar lunch)
Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
(Hosted until they money runs out.)
ELECTION OF 2010 PRESIDENT
will be held at 6:00 p.m. during the party. Fail to attend at your peril.
Shortly after the vote, the mantle of office will be passed from Patrick Irwin to Carol Mortensen.

Please RSVP my assistant: [email protected] so that we can have a head count for the Bushwhacker.
Merry Christmas,
Patrick M. Irwin

Friday’s bar meeting:
Date: 10-17-08
Location: Rick’s Place (102 W. Front Street 452-8683)
Time: Noon
Nancy Martin of Lutheran Community Services will be speaking this Friday.
See you there!

Patrick M. Irwin
P.S. RSVP [email protected] at your earliest convenience so that I can have a head count.