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News and information of
interest to WSBA members
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Opportunity for Service
ABA House of Delegates
Application deadline: June 15, 2016
The WSBA Board of Governors is accepting letters of interest and résumés from
members interested in serving on the
American Bar Association (ABA) House
of Delegates representing the WSBA.
Four positions are available for two-year terms beginning in August 2016. The
control and administration of the ABA
are vested in the House of Delegates,
the policymaking body of the ABA. The
House, composed of approximately 550
delegates, elects the ABA officers and
board, and meets out of state twice a
year. Delegate attendance is required
(to ensure full voting capacity exists at
all times, an alternate will attend if one
of the delegates were unable to attend
a meeting). The WSBA provides an allowance of $800 per year per delegate.
Members may serve a maximum of three
consecutive terms. Those serving on the
ABA House of Delegates must be ABA
members in good standing throughout
their terms. Additional information about
the ABA House of Delegates may be
found at www.americanbar.org/groups/
leadership/ house_of_delegates.html.
Please submit letters of interest and
résumés to the WSBA Communications
Department, 1325 Fourth Ave., Ste. 600,
Seattle, WA 98101-2539 or barleaders@
wsba.org.
WSBA News
WSBA Real Property Deskbook —
Real Estate Set Now Fully Updated
With the release of the 2016 Supplement
to Volume 4, all four volumes of the Real
Estate Set have now been supplemented:
Volumes 1 & 2, Real Estate Essentials
(Supp. 2014); Volume 3, Real Property Interests and Duties of Third Parties (Supp.
2015); and Volume 4, Causes of Action,
Taxation, Regulation (Supp. 2016). Purchase the set or individual volumes at
wsbacle.org.
New Recorded Seminar “Bundles”
from WSBA-CLE
WSBA-CLE seminars are now available in
bundles — collections of recorded CLEs
in specific practice areas offered at discounted prices. Each bundle provides
both Law & Legal Procedure and Ethics
CLE credit. Go to wsbacle.org and click
on “Bundles” to view the collections in
business, creditor-debtor, elder, estate
planning, family, Indian, and litigation law,
plus professionalism.
Nominate a New or Young Lawyer
for the WYLC’s Public Service and
Leadership Award
This year, the Washington Young Lawyers
Committee will honor five new or young
lawyers with the Public Service and Leadership Award. This is a great opportunity
to recognize the achievements of a new
or young lawyer. Nominate someone who
you think deserves to be recognized for
their long-term public service and extraordinary contribution to the community. Applications are due July 15. Award recipients
will be selected in August. Learn more at
http://bit.ly/ylcaward.
Join the WSBA New Lawyers List
Serve
This list serve is a discussion platform for
new lawyers of the WSBA. In addition to
being the best place to receive news and
information relevant to new lawyers, this
is a place to ask questions, seek referrals,
and make connections with peers. To join,
email newlawyers@wsba.org.
WSBA Launches CLE Faculty
Database
The WSBA is pleased to announce the
launch of a faculty database to better support the delivery of quality CLE programming. It will provide a single repository to
access information about current faculty
and those interested in becoming faculty,
so WSBA can best match expertise/quali-fications to program needs.
If you are currently serving as CLE
faculty, or are interested in working with
WSBA as a future CLE faculty member,
we ask that you register in the database.
Serving as a faculty member provides you
the opportunity to engage with other attorneys across the state, give back to your
profession and expand your professional
growth.
Whether it’s upcoming changes in the
law, emerging hot topics, or substantive
content, our goal is to ensure we are en-
gaging with the right faculty at the right
time, matching practice expertise and
knowledge to our educational program-
ming needs.
If you are current CLE faculty or are interested in future opportunities, we must
capture the information of all of those
that plan to teach in the future. Please log
on and register in the CLE faculty database today at https://www.mywsba.org/
CleFacultyApplication.aspx.
Take the Call to Duty Pledge
The WSBA Call to Duty initiative is designed to inform,
inspire, and
involve you in
meeting the legal needs of veterans and their
families. Take
the Pledge and
commit to serving Washington veterans in 2016. As part
of the pledge, we will support you by providing resources both legal and non-legal
to serve veterans; education and CLEs;
and the chance to answer the various calls
to duty in serving veterans. You can sign
up to take the pledge at www.mywsba.
org/ CallToDutyPledge.aspx.
ALPS Attorney Match
Attorney Match is a free online networking
tool made available through the WSBA-endorsed professional liability partner,
ALPS. This resource allows attorneys to set
up a profile and indicate whether they are
looking for or available to act as a mentor.
Mentorship programs that meet requirements are now eligible for MCLE credits.
The WSBA provides information and links
to the ALPS Attorney Match online system as a service to the legal community.
For more information, email mentorlink@
wsba.org.
Volunteer Custodians Needed
The WSBA is seeking interested lawyers
as potential ELC 7. 7 volunteer custodians. An appointed custodian is authorized to act as counsel for the limited
purpose of protecting a client’s interests
whenever a lawyer has been transferred
to disability inactive status, suspended,
disbarred, dies, or disappears and no
person appears to be protecting the
clients’ interests. The custodian takes
possession of the necessary files and records and takes action to protect clients’
interests. The custodian may act with
