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New web site for Alternative Dispute Resolution section of Washington State Bar Association

The Alternative Dispute Resolution section of the Washington State Bar Association announces their web page at www.wsba-adr.org. Any person interested in mediation, arbitration, restorative justice, high conflict or other alternative methods to resolving conflict may sign up. Membership in the ADR section is suggested but not required.

The site offers web site members the opportunity to create a free customizable page within the site, which is searchable by lawyers and the general public. It also offers information, news and events about ADR in Washington.

You may join the section at http://www.wsba.org/Legal-Community/Sections

Mark Baumann presented at the Oregon Mediation Association 2011 conference

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.

Clallam County Bar Welcomes Kimberly Ortloff!

Kimberly K. Ortloff provides full service legal advocacy in Washington State, with offices in Port Angeles WA.  Ms. Ortloff provides a unique, one on one approach to helping clietns with their legal issues and specializes in special needs education law.  Along with advocating for clients, Ms. Ortloff is also the mother of an autistc son, giving her a unique perspective in helping families through the maze of education and therapy issues.  Her expertise also can help in establishing the unique estate planning needs facing these families.

Ms. Ortloff also specializes in estate planning, including wills, trusts, adoptions, real estate, commercial and contracts.

Ms. Ortloff’s office is located at 319-A South Peabody, Port Angeles, WA 98362.

1-360-504-1148; [email protected]

CCBAR.com welcomes Derek Medina!

CCBAR.com would like to welcome Derek Medina and his Family Law practice to the Port Angeles area.

Derek practices in the areas of Family and Landlord/Tenant.

Derek Medina
210 E. Fifth Street
Port Angeles, WA 98362

360-504-2191
www.medina-law.com

Shirley Schrawyer is the Courthouse Facilitator

Shirley Schrawyer is now the courthouse facilitator, still in room 212 in the old courthouse.

Hours are:

Monday: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Tuesday: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Wednesday: 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Thursday: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Friday: 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Welcome Shirley!

Angeles Mediation Pro Bono Domestic Violence Mediation Project

Announcement:
Angeles Mediation Pro Bono Domestic Violence Mediation Project

In 2011-2012, Mark Baumann, JD, Rachel Hardies, MA, and Angeles Mediation, will be operating a pro bono Domestic Violence Mediation Project to help low income families who have had allegations or a history of domestic violence resolve conflict through mediation. Domestic violence may involve physical and/or emotional abuse, and/or may be perceived as a “high conflict” case. These are difficult cases that require special handling and attention, particularly to both parties needs and safety.

The interdisciplinary DV Mediation Project is an access to justice oriented project, offering people of modest means an alternative to litigation that may also offer a more effective method of managing entrenched conflict patterns. Part of the purpose of the project is to develop and report on effective mediation techniques for domestic violence situations.

The DV Mediation Project encourages attorney and advocate participation and the development of safety plans. Attorneys and advocates interested in participating in the Project may contact Mark Baumann or Nancy Rohde, and are encouraged to attend the Quileute Tribe’s unique DV training opportunity by the Southwest Center for Law and Policy in La Push on June 28 and 29. (This training is free and offers CLE credit. For more information see https://clallamcountybar.com/2011/06/03/842/)

Referrals to the DV Mediation Project will only be accepted from professionals, including lawyers, therapists and advocates. Parties interested in mediation services should ask professionals they are working with for a referral, and/or call Healthy Families for advocate and safety planning services in this or any DV situation. If you are interesting in contributing to the project, as a volunteer mediator, advocate, advisor, counselor, educator, concept developer, or otherwise, please call for more information.

Mark Baumann
360-452-8688

Rachel Hardies
360-670-2336

Healthy Families, 360-452-2381

DV Training: By the Quileute New Beginnings program

The Quileute Tribe New Beginning’s program invites you to attend the Southwest Center for Law and Policy’s Domestic Violence and Teen Intimate Partner & Sexual Violence Training at the Quileute tribal office, west wing, 90 Main Street, La Push, WA on June 28th and 29th, 2011.

This trainings is FREE, offers CLE credit and is open to anyone (breakfast & lunch provided). [Read more…] about DV Training: By the Quileute New Beginnings program

Elwha Walk for Awareness: a domestic violence awareness event

Walk for Awareness!
Community Event
After we walk: Join us for Dinner!  An educational video, and Prizes!
At the Lower Elwha Tribal Center
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
3:30pm-6:00pm
Hosted by the Elwha Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and Task Force

Strengthening Our Community Through Prevention, Protection, Safety, and Awareness.

Sponsored by Lower Elwha Family Advocacy Program OVW and OCVA Grants

April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

For more information, contact 452-8471 ext. 231/205 or 460-1745.

Family Law section lunch

There will be a meeting of the Family Law Bar at noon on May 12, 2011 at Tendy’s Chinese Restaurant meeting room. Commissioner Basden will be in attendance.

Kathleen McCormick

Parenting Class: Fatherhood First

Fatherhood First Parenting Classes
April 21-July 14, 2011
First Step Family Support Center
325 E 6th Street
Port Angeles

These free, weekly fathering classes are designed to teach parenting and nurturing skills to men.

Each 2 1/2 hour class provides proven, effective skills for healthy family relationships and child development.

Participants will learn:
*The secrets for creating safe, loving, stable, and nurtured families;
*Positive discipline tools taught through a uniquely father-friendly method for successful child behavior management;
*Effective family communication techniques to strengthen father-child and father-mother relationships;
*How to stop fighting and arguing by using proven-effective strategies for conflict resolution and problem solving;
*And much more.

Space is limited, so register early!

For more information or to register, please call Daryl Trowbridge at 775-5069 or e-mail [email protected].