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CLE Bonanza 2025

The annual Clallam County CLE is on Friday, November 7th, in Sequim. Lunch is included with registration.

This year’s event features another outstanding lineup of presenters, including:

  • Jeanne Marie Clavere, WSBA Ethics Hotline
  • Anna Brady, Attorney with Ziontz Chestnut
  • Judge Susan Fisch (Ret.)
  • Leah Snyder, Attorney with Ember Law
  • The Hon. Charles W. Johnson, Associate Chief Justice, Washington State Supreme Court
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The CLE is hosted by the Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers.

To register, contact Shauna or Mary at [email protected], or 360-504-2422.

CLE: Managing parent child contact problems WA AFCC

Parent child contact problems (PCCP) is one of the most difficult challenges in family law cases. The Washington Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) is holding it’s 10th annual conference to address the PCCP topic over Friday and optionally on Saturday, April 25-26, 2025.

Conference speakers are national experts Leslie Drozd and Barbara Fidler. They will focus on intermediate and advanced concepts and solutions to teach how to recognize the problem and intervene. They will also look at the complex challenges PCCP cases pose for family courts, family attorneys, parent educators, GALs, and mental health specialists who work with resist/refuse dynamics (RRD).

This session is for lawyers, judicial officers, forensic professionals, mental health specialists, and other people working in family law and dependency cases.

Speakers

Dr. Drozd is a licensed psychologist who works clinically and forensically with families in the various stages of divorce, including families with parent-child contact problems, co-parenting therapy, family therapy, reintegration therapy, and parent coordination. She is part of a group of experts producing a 16-hour training for the AFCC: Advanced Issues in Family Law: Parent-Child Contact Problems.

Dr. Fidler is a psychologist in private practice who has more than 38 years of experience working with divorcing families. She has authored four books and many chapters and peer reviewed papers, including as guest co-editor of two special issues of the Family Court Review (FCR) on alienation (January 2010 and April 2020). She served on the AFCC task force that developed the Guideline for Parenting Coordinators in 2019.

Conference details

Friday, April 25, 2025. 8:45-5:15. $325 for AFCC members, $375 for nonmembers, $225 for full-time WA county court personnel.

Saturday, April 26, 2025 9:30-12:30. $75. Topic is advanced interventions and solutions for PCCP cases. Friday conference registration required.

Both sessions at the Washington Athletic Club, Seattle

CLE Bonanza 2024

The annual Clallam County CLE is November 1, 2024. It is hosted by the Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers. The registration fee is $225 and includes lunch.

Contact Shauna or Mary at the CJCPBL for registration and location information, at [email protected], or 360-504-2422.

Topics and speakers

  • Jeanne Marie Clavere,  WSBA Ethics Hotline 
  • Steve Robins, Northwest Justice Senior attorney
  • Harry Gasnick, Clallam Public Defenders Senior attorney
  • Gabriel Galanda Indigenous rights attorney, Galanda Broadman
  • WA State Supreme Court Justice Gordon McCloud

All proceeds directly fund civil legal aid services for low-income and vulnerable clients in Clallam and Jefferson Counties.

This event is in-person only. No online attendance options are available.

CLE Bonanza 2023

The annual Clallam County CLE is November 3, 2023. It is hosted by the Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers. The registration fee is $225 and includes a box lunch.

Contact Shauna or Mary at the CJCPBL for registration and location information, at [email protected], or 360-504-2422.

Topics and speakers

  • Keynote: A Discussion with Washington’s Solicitor General. Local AAG counsel Kristin Glenn and Ariel Speser will moderate a discussion with Washington’s AGO Noah Purcell.
  • Ethics of client communication. Jeanne Marie Clavere, Senior Professional Responsibility Counsel, WSBA.
  • Cultural Humility, Race Equity and Trauma-informed Practices in Pro Bono Work. Ada Shen-Jaffe, JustLead Washington, Leadership Academy and Race Equity Program, Office of Public Defense.
  • To Criminalize or Not to Criminalize: Washington’s Ongoing Experiment with System Response to Drug Possession. Grace O’Conner, Managing attorney, Blake Defense Program, Office of Public Defense.
  • A view from the Supreme Court. Justice Susan Owens

All proceeds directly fund civil legal aid services for low-income and vulnerable clients in Clallam and Jefferson Counties.

This event is in-person only. No online attendance options are available.

CLE: Supporting financial security of client funds

The Clallam County Bar Association will be co-hosting a Zoom CLE training for the legal community on protecting client funds. The program is titled “A few simple things you can do today to avoid a security incident.” Currently, multiple financial industries are experiencing high volumes of fraud. Recently, a lawyer practicing in Clallam County had their email account hacked and their client was robbed a great deal of money by following apparent instructions from the lawyer. This training will help our community shore up local at tacks.

The CLE is on September 29, 2023, from noon-1:00 p.m.

Presenter: Michael J. Cherry

Michael has been working with computers, starting at one of the largest data centers in Canada, and building some of the first and largest computer networks. He worked at Microsoft for 10 years, including working on the network components that became part of Windows NT, and eventually, became part of the Windows client OS. He was admitted to the bar in 2014 and operated his own firm advising startups and other firms on privacy and cybersecurity law. Currently, he is the chair of the Washington Supreme Court’s Practice of Law Board, and he tries to volunteer once a week with the KCBA Housing Justice Project.

The Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers office is co-hosting the session. Contact them or CCBA president James Rodriguez for login information.

CLE: Ethics issues and conflict of interest analyses in a small legal community

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.

CLE Bonanza 2022

The Clallam pro bono annual fall CLE is Friday, November 4, 2022. The CLE is hosted by and supports the Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers. The registration fee for the all day training program is $225. Attendance can be in person or by Zoom.

CLE speakers and topics

Justice Susan Owens, Washington State Supreme Court, keynote speaker: “You be the judge.”

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Phil Talmadge, Talmadge Fitzpatrick (former state senator and justice): “Brief writing and oral argument: pet peeves.”

Leanne Martinez, Victoria Chhagan, and AMy Gilbrough, Douglas, Drachler, McKee & Gilbrough: “Social Security Disability overview.”

Jeanne Marie Clavere, WSBA Senior professional responsibility counsel: “Common ethical dilemmas and revisory opinions.”

Judge Dave Neupert, Clallam County District Court I: “All about mental health court.”

Ted Howard, Housing Justice Project, and Cherish Cronmiller, OlyCAP: “Navigating eviction.”

To register or for more information, contact [email protected] or call 360-504-2422.

COVID protections: Seating will be socially distanced and masks suggested while indoors. Virtual appearance by Zoom is available.

All proceeds benefit CJCPBL.

Eviction law training for lawyers and public

Navigating Eviction in 2022, a training and panel hosted by the Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers. The session will provide a summary of the recent changes in eviction laws and resources in Washington State. It will be held on Friday, May 27th, from noon to 1:30. Speakers and panelists include Ted Howard, Hanna Harrison, Judge Simon Barnhart, Renee Riopelle, and Cherish Cronmiller. They will explore both landlord and tenant perspectives.

The session will provide a summary of recent changes in eviction laws, and identify available Washington resources. It will also include a discussion about the ERPP program which facilitates communication between landlords and tenants.

This event is open to the public with CLE credit for participating attorneys, for anyone with questions about the rights of landlords and tenants. Attendance is free, and donations are encouraged for Clallam County Bar Association members which can be made at cjcpbl.org.

Please call or email CJCPBL for registration at [email protected], [email protected], or 360-504-2422.

Parenting science training: biological embedding of early-life adversity

This training will look at how early life experience affects development and child and adult functioning, and look at mechanisms of resiliency. This free program is part of the Parent-Child Relationship Programs, a service of the Barnard Center at the University of Washington. This program is highly recommended.

Register here

Biological Embedding of Early-Life Adversity: Challenges and Opportunities

January 13, 2022 from 2pm – 3:30pm PT via ZOOM

Dr. Shalev will discuss the current state of the science of how early-life adversity can ‘get under the skin’ and program biological systems, which in turn may increase risk for later-life physical and mental-health problems. In order to evoke change in the health trajectories for survivors, we need to fill critical gaps in our understanding of this ‘biological embedding’, and to further explore mechanisms of resilience.   Specifically, Dr. Shalev will highlight the role of telomere biology as a potential platform for discovery and intervention studies, as well as limitations in the field and new biological aging clocks to investigate the biological embedding of early trauma.
Idan Shalev, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Health at The Pennsylvania State University. His research entails an interdisciplinary approach to identify mechanisms underpinning the biological embedding of stress, or ‘how stress gets under the skin’, and its effect on health and aging. Shalev’s research combines the disciplines of molecular genetics, endocrinology, neurobiology and psychology. This systems approach integrates data sources across multiple levels of genomic, biomarkers and phenotypic data. Specifically, using innovative research designs, his research tests the effects of stress from early life on change in telomere length and other biomarkers of aging across the life course, and the consequences of change in telomere length for physical and mental health problems. The goal of his research is to pinpoint behavioral and molecular targets for public health observation and clinical treatments aimed at mitigating the consequences of stress on health and aging. Shalev is the past Mark T. Greenberg Early Career Professor for the Study of Children’s Health and Development and an author of more than 60 scientific articles and chapters.

For lawyers, this program does not offer CLE credit directly, but should qualify if you apply.

CLE Bonanza 2021 Clallam County

On Friday, November 5, 2021, the Clallam Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers will host the annual Clallam County full day CLE. The event will be offered for in person and Zoom attendance. 6 credits are pending and the cost is $225.

Topics and speakers

Gary Williams and Rafael Urguia: What every lawyer needs to know about insurance policies

Charles Johnson, WA Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice: Evolution of ethics rules

Jeanne Marie Clavere, WSBA General Counsel’s Office: New rules, required disclosures to clients and more.

Jeff Tolman: Every gunslinger’s problems.*

Joes Trejo, Northwest Justice Project: What to do about landlords and tenants.

Sage Graves, of Hickman Menashe P.S.: The guardianship, conservatorship, and other protective arrangements act: changes to guardianship law coming soon.

Registration

Register with CJCPBL, PO Box 901, Port Angeles WA 98362, [email protected], 360-504-2422

*Editor’s note: CCB.com does not promote lawyers as “gunslingers.” Lawyers are first and foremost counselors at law and then protectors. In small towns, most law which lawyers practice involve “people law” or “personal law” and approaching cases with compassion and a goal to protect the client is always the best starting point. Lawyers acting as “gunslingers” or “hired guns” or “barracudas” tend to create more problems than they solve. Buyers beware because those types of lawyers tend to treat clients as badly as they do everyone else.