Washington Women Lawyers 2007 Leadership Symposium
Equal Access to Client and Career Development: Skills for the 21st Century Attorney
Friday, September 28, 2007
BELL HARBOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER PIER 66, 2211 ALASKAN WAY, SEATTLE, WA 98121 Luncheon & Dinner Keynote Speaker Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law, Director of the Center for WorkLife Law and the Project for Attorney Retention, UC Hastings College of Law Annual Dinner Award Recipients The Honorable Bobbe Bridge, Passing the Torch Award Norm Maleng, WWL Foundation Award Ellen Dial and Dean Kellye Y. Testy, President’s Award Carla C. Lee, State Board Member of the Year Award
Symposium Schedule of Events
8:00 A.M. 8:30-9:45 A.M. Registration with Continental Breakfast & Coffee Plenary Session I—The Leadership Gap: Taking Our Place at the Table (1.0 ethics credit) In this session, Dr. Susan Secker, a professor of ethics, consultant in leadership development, and former provost of Seattle University, will explore the “leadership gap” as an opportunity for women to step up to the table and assume the burdens of leadership. She will argue that leadership is not an entitlement but a responsibility and that the talents of women are urgently needed in leadership. Participants will learn what the research outlines as the critical components of effective leadership, and will explore what skills women are uniquely equipped to offer. In addition, the session will cover the importance of collaboration and networking as indispensable leadership styles in today’s professional environment. The importance of careful recruiting and well-developed mentoring programs will also be highlighted. 9:45-10:00 A.M. 10:00-11:15 A.M. Break Breakout Sessions 1 & 2 (Choose One) (.5 general credit and 1.0 ethics credit) Session 1: Discovering Your Ideal Practice Learn how to make conscious, well-informed decisions about what kind of law you want to practice and how you want your practice to ultimately lead to career success and satisfaction. This session will also focus on the importance of continual reassessment and how to meet the demands of a changing clientele. Because creating an ideal practice is an ethical and professional obligation, you will also learn how to avoid procrastination, which can hinder your ability to take the necessary steps to build your ideal practice. Session 2: Women and the Art of Negotiation: The Practical Impact of Gender on Legal Negotiation This session will focus on the concepts and skills necessary to negotiation. In particular, the session will help you understand the basic theoretical concepts underlying negotiation and, through lecture and participation, teach you how to prepare for and engage in principled negotiation. The session will also teach you how to deal with competitive/adversarial techniques in negotiation and the ethical limitations imposed by the rules of professional conduct. In teaching these skills, the session will focus on whether and to what extent gender plays a role in negotiation. 11:15 A.M.-1:00 P.M. Lunch & Keynote Address: The Dollars and ‘Sense’ of Balanced Hours (1.25 general credits) Professor Joan C. Williams, a prize-winning author and nationally recognized expert on work/family issues, will explore the interconnection between part-time programs, retention and profitability, and demonstrate the business case – the economic dollars and “sense” – in favor of implementing a “balanced hours” program. 1:15-2:15 P.M. Breakout Sessions 3 & 4 (Choose One) (1.0 general credit)
Session 3: The Strategy and Art of Taking and Defending Depositions Join us for an interactive session as we discuss the practice of effective deposition taking and defense of witnesses. This session will include instruction on the basics of taking and defending a deposition, including laying the foundation for documentary evidence, and making proper objections to preserve the record. You will be taught the preparation necessary to take a good deposition and also third party and corporate representative depositions. The session will include an interactive discussion on deposition techniques, such as effective questioning styles and how to properly prepare a witness. Session 4: Maintaining Civil Communication with Difficult Clients and Co-Workers This session will explore the external and internal factors that contribute to incivility in the workplace, and how to manage the need to defend when faced with a difficult client, coworker or opposing counsel. You will also learn how to manage bad behavior in yourself and how to address others in difficult situations. 2:15-2:30 P.M. 2:30-3:30 P.M. Break Breakout Sessions 5 & 6 (Choose One) (1.0 general credit) Session 5: Oral Advocacy Learn from a panel of experienced civil and criminal attorneys the skills required for effective oral advocacy at both the trial and appellate level. This moderated discussion will explore how to properly prepare for an oral presentation, keys to a winning presentation, skills that are necessary to different aspects of oral advocacy, how to improve your skills, and various “tricks of the trade.” Session 6: Building and Managing Strategic Relationships This moderated panel discussion will teach you what a “strategic relationship” is and how to build such relationships. You will learn why strategic relationships are important to your career goals, practice development and growing your clientele. You will also learn how to maintain strategic relationships once they are formed and how to serve in a “strategic” capacity to support the career growth of other female attorneys. 3:30-3:45 P.M. 3:45-5:00 P.M. Break Plenary Session II Answering the Call: Finding Meaning, Purpose and Balance in Your Life’s Work (1.25 general credits) In this interactive session, you will learn how to build on your personal and professional experiences to determine how these experiences inform your daily life. This session will involve a variety of exercises to help you identify personal and professional priorities, create action plans and establish follow-up procedures, all to enable you to find meaning, purpose and balance in your life’s work. 5:00-6:00 P.M. 6:30 P.M. Cocktail Reception Annual Awards Dinner
Distinguished Speakers and Panelists
Luncheon & Dinner Keynote Speaker Professor Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law and the Project for Attorney Retention at University of California, Hastings College of the Law. In 2006, she received the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Prize for Women Lawyers of Achievement. A prize-winning author and expert on work/family issues, she is author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000), which won the 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. She has authored or co-authored four books and over fifty law review articles; her work is reprinted in casebooks on six different subjects; she has given over two hundred speeches and presentations in North and Latin America to groups as diverse as the National Employment Lawyers’ Association, the Denver Rotary Club, the American Philosophical Association, and the Modern Language Association, and has lectured at virtually every leading U.S. university. Founding Director of WorkLife Law (WLL), she is also Co-Director of the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR). She has played a leading role in documenting workplace bias against mothers. Her “Beyond the Maternal Wall: Relief for Family Caregivers Who are Discriminated against on the Job,” 26 Harvard Women’s Law Review 77 (2003), (co-authored with Nancy Segal), was prominently cited in Back v. Hastings on Hudson Union Free School District, 2004 U.S. App. Lexis 6684 (2d Cir. April 7, 2004). She also has played a central role in organizing social scientists to document maternal wall bias, notably in a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues (2004), co-edited with Monica Biernat and Faye Crosby, which was awarded the Distinguished Publication Award by the Association for Women in Psychology. This year, she is scheduled to give the Massey Lectures on American Civilization at Harvard University. Plenary Session I Dr. Susan L. Secker, former provost of Seattle University, is a consultant in leadership development with SLS Consulting, LLC. Dr. Secker has held senior leadership positions that include responsibilities for strategic planning, team building, diversifying the workforce, and cultivating ethical leadership. Sue came to Seattle University in 1989 as an assistant professor of ethics, having completed her doctoral studies in ethics at the University of Chicago. As a professor, she taught ethics to graduate and undergraduate students, was a member of the Society of Christian Ethics, an elected board member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and a consultant for ethics to the Washington State Conference of Catholic Bishops. After being tenured and promoted to associate professor of ethics, Dr. Secker was appointed to leadership positions at Seattle University that include department chair, associate dean, associate provost, vice president for planning and provost. Sue understands organizations, how they work, and the challenges and opportunities that their respective missions offer. She believes that authentic leadership results when persons lead from their own inner compass. The inspiration to be a leader in one’s life does not depend on roles or positions; it depends on being grounded in one’s deepest values and living with integrity, guided by those values. Her passion lies in urging others, especially women and persons of color, to unleash their potential for the common good. Plenary Session II Professor Paula Lustbader has been on the faculty of Seattle University School of Law since 1988. When she was a second-year law student, she co-developed the school’s academic support program, which she continues to direct. She is a nationally recognized scholar and speaker on law school academic support programs, learning theory, teaching methods, and diversity. In 2006, Professor Lustbader was the co-recipient of the Washington State Bar Association Award for Excellence in Diversity. In addition to being the past chair of both the Teaching Methods and Academic Support Sections of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), she has been a frequent program organizer and presenter at conferences sponsored by the AALS, the Law School Admission Council Institutes for Academic Support, the Institute for Law School Teaching, the Society of American Law Teachers, the Legal Writing Institute, the Teaching Professor, and the Academy for Creative Teaching. She has also made presentations on teaching in England, Switzerland, and Spain. Her work on faculty development focuses on teaching and thus is useful beyond the law school arena. Professor Lustbader has taught at the AALS New Faculty Institute from 1999-2005; has served on the planning committee and as a facilitator for the New Faculty Institute at
Seattle University from 2001-2007; has served on the committee to establish a Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University; and has served as a faculty consultant to that center. Breakout Session 1: Discovering Your Ideal Practice Karen Summerville, founder of Legal Career Management, has extensive experience in the Seattle legal community, including over ten years providing career counseling and outplacement to attorneys. She was a partner in the law firm Betts, Patterson & Mines, where she specialized in commercial litigation and was active in associate hiring and training. She was an associate with Williams, Kastner & Gibbs, where she was also a member of the hiring committee. Prior to forming Legal Career Management, she was Vice President, Client Relations with Lee Hecht Harrison, one of the largest outplacement and career consulting firms in the United States. The Puget Sound Business Journal featured Ms. Summerville: “She now has a reputation in Seattle as the career counselor for counselors. And the years she spent practicing law now help her empathize with the attorneys who seek her advice." Ms. Summerville is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Washington Law Review. Ms. Summerville also served as the Interim Director, Career Services in 1995. She presents frequent workshops on career management for lawyers and law students. Her column, “Managing Your Legal Career,” is featured in the King County Bar Bulletin. Breakout Session 2: Women and the Art of Negotiation: The Practical Impact of Gender on Legal Negotiation Elizabeth Ford is a Visiting Clinical Professor at the Seattle University School of Law, teaching the law school’s Mediation Clinic. She is also a Lecturer at the University of Washington, teaching Women and the Law. In addition to her course work, Ms. Ford serves frequently as a mediator and arbitrator primarily in labor and employment disputes. In 2005, Ms. Ford was appointed by the Governor to serve on the Marine Employees Commission where she assists the Washington State Ferries and its unions resolve disputes by assisting the parties in mediation or sitting as a hearing officer. Prior to beginning her work at Seattle University, Ms. Ford practiced as a labor and employment attorney where her practice focused heavily on representing parties in negotiation. Ms. Ford provides frequent trainings and workshops in the area of dispute resolution. Nancy Maisano is a mediator in Seattle and founder of Maisano Mediation, LLC, a mediation and workplace solutions firm. She launched her private practice after serving as a full-time mediator with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Alternate Dispute Resolution Unit in Seattle for six years. In that position with the EEOC’s Seattle ADR Unit, a successful program with resolution and participation rates that are among the highest in the country, Ms. Maisano conducted more than 100 mediations per year and consistently achieved a greater than 90 percent resolution rate. Prior to her mediation career, Ms. Maisano served as a trial attorney for the EEOC and as an associate with Schwerin Campbell Barnard, LLP, litigating cases in a variety of EEO matters including discrimination based on race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual harassment, pregnancy, age and disability. After receiving her J.D. in 1990, she initially worked on labor, environmental and maritime issues as a legislative/policy lawyer for a federal agency in Washington, D.C. Breakout Session 3: The Strategy and Art of Taking and Defending Depositions Angela M. Niemann is a shareholder at Heller Ehrman in Seattle, where she is Co-Chair of Heller Ehrman’s Northwest Offices Litigation Department and Chair of the Associate Training Program. She has 15 years of commercial litigation experience, including litigation strategy and management, supervision of litigation teams, motion practice, discovery, negotiation, mediation, development of expert and percipient witness testimony, arbitration and trial. Angela has been named as a “Rising Star” by Washington Law & Politics in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Molly A. Terwilliger is an associate at Heller Ehrman in Seattle, where she has a litigation practice. Prior to joining the firm, Molly served first as a law clerk to the Honorable Justice Barbara Durham of the Washington State Supreme Court, and next as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Marsha J. Pechman of the United States District Court, Western District of Washington. Molly graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1998, cum laude, Order of the Coif, and currently has a litigation practice that focuses on intellectual property and antitrust matters. Molly has been named as a “Rising Star” by Washington Law & Politics in 2006 and 2007.
Breakout Session 4: Maintaining Civil Communication with Difficult Clients and Co-Workers Dr. Rebecca Nerison, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, who has counseled, coached, and consulted with lawyers at the Washington State Bar Association Lawyers Assistance Program since 1997. Her passion is helping lawyers improve their lives and workplaces. Prior to joining the WSBA staff, Rebecca ran a private practice on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and she helped students at Central Missouri State University decide what they wanted to be when they grew up. Dr. Nerison earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Iowa in 1992. Breakout Session 5: Oral Advocacy Moderator: Kristine Costello is the founder of Costello & Associates, P.S., a criminal defense firm. Her practice focuses on serious criminal matters. Kris has extensive trial experience in state and federal courts. Prior to starting her private practice, Kris worked at the Seattle Public Defender Association from 1991-1998. Kris is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Washington where she teaches Trial Advocacy. This summer she taught and presented at the 2007 National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Northwest Trial Skills Program. She is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys and the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. She is the District Representative for the Criminal Justice Act Panel and the co-chair of the Criminal Law section of the Federal Bar Association. She also serves as the treasurer for the Inns of the Court. Panelists: Sheryl Gordon McCloud is an attorney in Seattle, whose practice focuses on complex appellate matters (civil and criminal), criminal defense and post-conviction work, in both federal and state court. She has been an adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law since 1999, where she teaches appellate, post-conviction and death penalty seminars. After graduating in the top 2% of her class and Order of the Coif from the University of Southern California Law Center, Sheryl clerked for the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Sheryl’s work is highlighted in numerous published decisions and she is the author of several legal articles. Sheryl has given numerous CLE presentations on appellate practice, preserving the record for appeal, federalism and various substantive criminal law topics. Sheryl is a fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Chair of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Amicus Committee, and Vice Chair of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Amicus Committee. Katie O’Sullivan is a partner at Perkins Coie in Seattle, where she is Co-Chair of the Appellate Practice Group. Her practice focuses on complex business litigation, class action defense, constitutional litigation and appellate litigation. After graduating from Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, Katie clerked for the Honorable Harold H. Greene, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Katie served for three years on the Washington State Bar Association Board of Governors, where she served as a liaison to Washington Women Lawyers, is Chair of the Federal Bar Association Appellate Practice Committee, and is a member of the American Law Institute. Jill Otake is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, where she has served since 2005. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Jill worked as a Deputy Prosecutor for the King County Prosecutor’s Office, and clerked for the Honorable Simeon R. Acoba, Jr., Hawaii Supreme Court. This summer, Jill taught a course on Trial Techniques at Seattle University School of Law. Suzanne Thomas is a partner at K&L Gates, where she practices labor and employment law in the firm’s Seattle office. Her emphasis is on advice, counseling, representation and litigation, including class action litigation, in sophisticated areas of employment law. Suzanne is an adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law where she teaches an Employment Survey course. Suzanne served as a gubernatorial appointee under Washington Governor Gary Locke, and is a past president of Washington Women Lawyers. She is a Leadership Tomorrow Graduate, has been recognized as a "Rising Star" in Washington Law & Politics in 1999 and as a "Super Lawyer"
every year thereafter. She is also listed in the "Best Lawyers in America," and was identified as a "Best Lawyer" in the June 2006 Seattle Metropolitan magazine. Breakout Session 6: Building and Managing Strategic Relationships Moderator: Kirsten Barron is a partner at Barron Smith Daugert in Bellingham, Washington, where her practice focuses on business, employment and community associations. After graduating from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law, Kirsten served as a law clerk to the Honorable Lawrence S. Margolis, United States Federal Court of Claims, Washington, D.C., and to the Honorable John A. Petrick, Washington State Court of Appeals (Div. II). She has also worked as a Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Grays Harbor County. Kirsten is a board member of LAW advocates, pro bono/access to justice, and is a YMCA volunteer. Panelists: Carrie Coppinger Carter is a partner at Shepherd Abbott Carter in Bellingham, Washington. Carrie’s practice includes civil and commercial litigation, primarily focusing on personal injury, employment law and insurance coverage disputes. Carrie received a double B.A. degree from the University of Washington in 1991 and her J.D. from Seattle University School of law in 1998. She was an invited member of the Puget Sound Inns of Court and the Order of Barristers. She is an active Washington State Trial Lawyers Association (WSTLA) Eagle member, a member of Washington Employment Lawyers Association (WELA), represents the 2 nd Congressional District on the WSTLA Board of Governors, and has served on numerous WSTLA committees and as Chair of the WSTLA Whatcom County Roundtable. Carrie has served on a Federal Magistrate Merit Selection Panel for Western District Court, on the Editorial Advisory Board for De Novo, and most recently on the WSBA Professionalism Committee. In 2005, she was selected as a fellow and completed the inaugural WSBA’s Leadership Institute. Washington Law & Politics magazine selected Carrie as one of Washington’s “Rising Stars” in 2003, 2004 & 2006. Carol Bailey Medwell is the founder of Carol Bailey & Associates, PLLC, Integrative Family Law in Seattle, Washington. Carol began practicing law in Texas in 1979 and has been in private practice in Seattle since 1991. For the last 15 years Carol has served as a Guardian ad Litem in complex family law cases and also practices general family law representing clients with complex estates and child custody issues. In addition to this experience, she practices Collaborative Law and is a trained mediator. Carol developed an approach to practicing family law called Integrative Family Law, to help families avoid unnecessarily destroying important relationships during the family law proceeding. A key component to this is training other attorneys to examine their relationship to conflict so the attorney does not unintentionally exacerbate the conflict between the parents, children and other important people in the life of the family. Carol Bailey & Associates, PLLC supports the families of all attorneys and staff members by offering part time positions and technical support so that everyone is able to work from home. Carol is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, King County Bar Association, American Bar Association, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals and the Washington Collaborative Law group. Tisha Pagalilauan is a partner at K&L Gates and works in the firm’s Seattle office. Tisha’s practice includes counseling and representing public and private clients regarding environmental litigation and regulatory issues. Tisha is the immediate past-President of Washington Women Lawyers and has served as a WWL board member since 2000. She is also on the Editorial Board of the Washington State Bar Association Environmental and Land Use Section, is the co-founder of the Initiative for Diversity Governing Council, and has served as the Chair of the King County Bar Ethnic Diversity in the Legal Profession Committee. Tisha was the recipient of the 2005 Washington State Bar Association, Young Lawyer’s Division Professionalism Award, and was named a “Rising Star” in Washington Law & Politics in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
2007 Leadership Symposium & Awards Dinner Planning Committee Members
Kirsten Barron, Barron Smith Daugert, PLLC Gena Bomotti, 2007 graduate of Seattle University School of Law Janet Chung, Northwest Women’s Law Center, Washington Women Lawyers President-Elect Eileen M. Concannon, Riddell Williams, P.S., King County Bar Association, President, Washington Women Lawyers, Co-Vice President Professional Development Kris Costello, Costello & Associates, P.S., Washington Women Lawyers BOG Liaison Kristen Culbert, Office of the Attorney General, Washington Women Lawyers, Co-Vice President Events, Symposium Co-Chair Carla Lee, Law Office of Carla C. Lee, PLLC, Washington Women Lawyers, Co-Vice President Professional Development, Symposium Co-Chair Kristin Perry Martinez, K&L Gates, Washington Women Lawyers, Co-Vice President Events, Symposium Co-Chair Joan Tierney, Seattle University School of Law, Washington Women Lawyers President Aiyana Thompson, K&L Gates Anne van Leynseele, Seattle University School of Law, 3L