June 20: Seattle - Negotiating Justice: Advancing Racial Equity and Client Goals

One of the most challenging skills an attorney can conquer is learning to humanize their client and translating that practice into a successful negotiation of their client’s case. This CLE will focus on how to improve your awareness of the obstacles our clients face in their lives. You will learn how to negotiate your cases in a way that uses this understanding.
Title:
Negotiating Justice: Advancing Racial Equity and Client Goals
When/Where:
Friday, June 20, 2014
8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m.
University of Washington School of Law
Gates Hall, Room 138
4293 Memorial Way
Seattle, WA
Advance registration is required.
Speakers:

• John A Powell, Berkeley Law, an internationally recognized expert in civil rights, civil liberties and structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty and democracy.
• Judge Robert S. Lasnik, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, who recently decided the landmark Wilbur v. Mount Vernon case concerning meaningful representation of indigent clients.
• Michele Storms, UW School of Law/Travis Stearns, WDA
• Ben Goldsmith, The Defender Association-King County
• La Rond Baker, ACLU-WA
• Candelaria Murillo, Columbia Legal Services
• Lara Zarowsky, UW School of Law
• Travis Stearns
• Judge Robert S. Lasnik

Cost:
This program is free and open to Washington Defender Association members, civil legal services attorneys, attorneys in private practice who handle pro bono cases and law students.
Credit:
6.75 CLE credits requested (including 1.0 ethics).
By:

• University of Washington Law School
• Washington Defender Association, 
• Columbia Legal Services
• ACLU-WA
• Northwest Justice Project
• TeamChild
• Center for Children & Youth Justice.

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