Upcoming CLEs

TBA

Please reach out to Gregory Altringer at service@snobar.org to request CLE video(s) and materials; you must self-report completed CLEs for credit.

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CLE Bank

Please reach out to Gregory Altringer at service@snobar.org to request link and/or materials; you must self-report completed CLEs for credit.

Family Law Section

November 22, 2024 – FLS Skills Clinic: Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements Hosted by FLS President Patrick Songy

Topics Include:

What they are

Nomenclature

Concepts

and much more…

October 18, 2024 – FLS Skills Clinic: Retirement Assets and QDROs Hosted by FLS President Patrick Songy (Feat. Darya Swingle)

Topics Include:

Breakdown Loan Assumption Options

Address Common Myths

Provide Additional Strategies to Consider

September 16, 2024 – FLS Skills Clinic: Divorcing With Disability Hosted by FLS President Patrick Songy (feat. Angela Macey-Cushman)

Topics Include:

Overview of Government Benefits Impacted by Divorce

How to Plan for/around Benefits When Structuring Divorce Resolutions

The “Medicaid Divorce”

and more…

July 15, 2024 – FLS Skills Clinic: Divorce Literacy: Loan Assumption Incident to Divorce Hosted by FLS Patrick Songy (feat. Mihaella Bayla)

Topics Include:

Breakdown Loan Assumption Options

Address Common Myths

Provide Additional Strategies to Consider

June 21, 2024 – FLS SKILLS CLINIC: Effectively Working with Support Staff – Patrick Songy – (Approved 2 hr CLE credit) – Here are some questions to figure out if this one will help you. Have you ever:

1. Missed a deadline because staff did not calendar it properly?
2. Have staff fail to confirm a hearing?
3. Struggled with staff members that do not take initiative?
4. Tried to correct performance issues with staff ineffectively?
5. Either felt frustration at a staff member’s poor communication or had the same allegations aimed at you?
6. Struggled to train new staff?
7. Struggled to bill because you are always dealing with staff members?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, this CLE is designed for you.

While management and leadership are not taught in law school, they are essential to a healthy law practice. I developed this program after many, many hours of interviews with paralegals and legal secretaries in King and Snohomish County. This is information that would have made my life WAY easier if I had it as a young lawyer.

This program will give you many of the basic tools to be an effective leader, set standard operating procedures with your time, and will provide ways for you to work with staff on how to improve your processes. You may want to consider watching this with your paralegals in tow.

June 17, 2024 – FLS Skills Clinic: Secondary Trauma and Lawyers – Hosted by FLS President Patrick Songy (Feat. Julie Caputo) (1 hr CLE credit) – One of the many topics not addressed in law school is how dealing with intense cases involving trauma, such as domestic violence, sexual assault, or child abuse, can have a negative mental and physical impact on the lawyers working on the case. This phenomenon is called “Secondary Trauma” and learning to recognize it, and more importantly manage it, are essential tools in family law—tools that are not taught in law school.  

May, 20, 2024 – FLS Skills Clinic: Intersection of Family and Criminal Law Hosted by FLS President Patrick Songy: Intersection of Criminal Law and Family Law (Featuring Karen Halverson)

Topics to include:
Filing Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases and Time Frame Plus Effect on Family Law Matters
Dos and Dont’s
Understanding What to Do When Client has a DV4 Assault Charge or Worse

May 17, 2024 – FLS – Skills Clinic – Effective GAL Interactions

Hosted by FLS President Patrick Songy (Featuring: Aimee Trua and Stacie Naczelnik)

Topics to include:
The Nature of Being a GAL
How GAL investigations are conducted
How They Assess Parents
How They View Supplemental Reports and Trial Testimony

April 19, 2024 – FLS Skills Clinic: Discovery Disputes

Hosted by FLS President Patrick Songy (Judge Patrick Moriarty provides some feedback from the audience)

Topics to include:
Broadly Applicable Principles Governing Areas of Family Law

March 18, 2024 – FLS Skills Clinic: Ex Parte Motions (Part I & II)

Hosted by FLS President Patrick Songy (Featuring: Commissioner Soloman Kim).

Topics to include:
The Statutory and Local Rules Governing Immediate Relief
Procedural Requirements (such as notice to other parties)
Principles – Expansion of the Temporary Orders Principles from last session to more accurately assess outcomes in Ex Parte
Practical Guidance

February 16, 2024 – FLS Skills Clinic: Temporary Orders.

Hosted by FLS President Patrick Songy.

Topics to include:
Investigating New Cases
Selecting Evidence
Declaration Drafting
Client Management
Oral Argument

Ethics of Law (SCBA CLEs)

December 13, 2024 – SCBA Landlord Tenant – Tenant Advocacy – The Science of Gender – Diversity Hosted by Krista Maclaren (feat. Rob Trickler, Grace Dyer, Raina Wagner, Victoria Heitman and Linden Jordan) (3 Law & Legal Credits and 3 Ethics Equity Credits)

Topics to Include:

Landlord Tenant Law

Tenant Advocacy

The Science of Gender

Diversity Credit

and more…

November 21, 2024 – SCBA Guardianship Practice CLE (Parts I-V) Hosted by Amanda Effertz (feat. Commissioner Lisa Micheli, Commissioner Ian Johnson, Geoffrey Jones, Sage Slugic, Maciel Mata, and Jenna Lieske) (Law & Legal 3.75 Credits, Ethics 1.5 Credits)

Topics Include:

Ethical Issues in Guardianship Practice

Practice and Procedure in Filing Guardianship Petition

Role of Court Visitor

October 27, 2023 – Ethics of Cryptocurrency hosted by SCBA President Michael Chin of Chin Law Group (Featuring Judge Karen Moore). (Credit Unavailable)

Topics to Include:

Is Cryptocurrency a Security?

How is Cryptocurrency Transferred?

How Can One Inherit Cryptocurrency?

How Is Cryptocurrency Evaluated?

How Can Cryptocurrency be Acquired in Discovery?