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November
2014
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Volume 42
Number 10
The official publication of the
Snohomish County Bar Association
Snohomish County Bar Association
Presents
Employment Practice Issues
December 12, 2014
9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Brian Dale, Attorney at Law, Deno Millikan, PLLC
“Balancing Employee Privacy and Employer Rules”
Joel Nichols, Attorney at Law, Deno Millikan, PLLC
“Severance Agreements - the Employee’s Perspective”
Vickie Norris, Attorney at Law, Anderson Hunter
“The Thoughtful Termination”
Robert J. Drewel Building, Meeting Room #1, First Floor
2 general & 1 ethics credit pending
News
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Gurjit Pandher
Editor
Terri Callantine
Magazine Production
Joyce Wood
Executive Director
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Snohomish County Bar
Association Officers
Inside This Issue
« Calendar of Events
« From the Desk of the President
« The Lawyer’s Road Review ~ Cougar Town
« Snohomish County Young Lawyers
« Superior Court of Snohomish County - DJJC WiFi
« Commissioners’ Calendar
« Announcements
« Advertisements
« CLEs
Jennifer Rancourt
President
Kari Petrasek
Vice President
Dubs Herschlip
Treasurer
Gurjit Pandher
Secretary
Trustees
Ann Brice
Glenn Kadish
Joel Nichols
Michael O’ Meara
Danielle Pratt
William Steffener
Laurie Ummel
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SCBA Calendar of Events
November 2014
10th Young Lawyers Division
Meeting
15th Deadline SCBA Newsletter
17th Family Law Section Meeting
20th SCBA Board of Trustees Meeting
27th & 28th Courthouse Closed
December 2014
January 2015
8 Young Lawyers Division Meeting
12thCLE-Employment 15thFamily Law Section Meeting
15thDeadline SCBA Newsletter
18th SCBA Board of Trustees Meeting
25th Courthouse Closed
1 Courthouse Closed
12th Young Lawyers Division Meeting
15th SCBA Board of Trustees Meeting
15th Deadline SCBA Newsletter
19th Courthouse Closed
26thFamily Law Section Meeting
28thADR Section Meeting
30thAnnual Membership Meeting
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February 2015
March 2015
April 2015
9 Young Lawyers Division Meeting
15th Deadline SCBA Newsletter
16th Courthouse Closed
19th SCBA Board of Trustees Meeting
23rd Family Law Section Meeting
7 Annual Dinner
9th Young Lawyers Division Meeting
15th Deadline SCBA Newsletter
16th Family Law Section Meeting
19th SCBA Board of Trustees Meeting
20th CLE
11 Young Lawyers Division Meeting
15th Deadline SCBA Newsletter
16th SCBA Board of Trustees Meeting
20th Family Law Section Meeting
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Superior Court Assignments
Presiding Judge:
Judge Michael T. Downes
Trial Calendar Call and Motions to Continue Trial
Juvenile Court:
Judge Ellis
Judge Lucas
Commissioner Brudvik
Civil Motions:
Judge Bowden
Judge Appel
Judge Kurtz
Judge Weiss
Judge Krese
Nov 3-4
Nov 5-7
Nov 10-20
Nov 21
Nov 24-26
Criminal Hearings:
Judge Krese
Judge Fair
Judge Ellis
Judge Kurtz
Nov 3-7
Nov 10-21
Nov 14 pm & 21 pm
Nov 24-26 Criminal Motions:
Judge Okrent
Judge Farris
Judge Wynne
Nov 3-7
Nov 10-21
Nov 24-26 Dept. 2
Criminal Dept. Judges:
Judges Wynne, Bowden, Fair, Kurtz, Weiss, Appel, Wilson, Okrent
2
Civil Dept. Judges: Judges Farris, Krese, Dingledy, Judge
Ex Parte/Commissioner Civil Motions:1 Commissioner Gaer
Family Law Calendars:1 Commissioners Stewart, Waggoner and Tinney
Please note: All assignments are subject to change without notice and assignments may not change on the first day of the month.
NOVEMBER 2014 - Snohomish County Bar News 3
From the Desk of
the President
Jennifer Rancourt
As a law clerk for Judge Gerald Knight in 2000,
I, like many of my colleagues, would dread the weeks
Judge Knight was on Civil Motions. Civil Motions
were a law clerk’s nightmare. The notable exception
were Mondays when we got to witness one of the few
happy events that occur in the courthouse; a building
designed for people to come and settle their disputes.
Mondays were adoption days. They were the days
when families would be united. There were always
tears of joy, kids getting their picture taken with the
Judge, and lots of smiles. Mondays were the days that
made the civil motions rotation bearable for law clerks.
That same year, the National Adoption Day
Coalition (Children’s Action Network, Freddi Mac
Foundation and Dave Thomas Foundation for
Adoption) launched National Adoption Day to raise
awareness about the 100,000 plus children in foster
care waiting to find permanent, loving families and to
celebrative adoptive families. The sponsors worked
with law firms, foster care agencies, advocates, and the
courts to complete hundreds of foster care adoptions.
That year nine jurisdictions participated in the event
across the country (New York City, Los Angeles,
Chicago, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Washington
D.C., Omaha and Columbus). The event grew quickly
to 17 jurisdictions in 2001 to approximately 400 in
2011.
According to NationalAdoptionDay.org, the
nationwide event has helped nearly 50,000 children
move from foster care to a forever family by raising
awareness, encouraging adoption, building a
collaboration among local adoption agencies, courts
and advocacy organizations and finalizing adoptions
from foster care in all 50 states. This year, the group
estimates that an additional 4,500 children in foster
care nationwide will be adopted during the National
Adoption Day celebrations.
2014 will mark the 10th Anniversary of Snohomish
County’s participation in the national event. While
National Adoption Day officially falls on the Saturday
before Thanksgiving each year, ( November 22, this
year) our court will be celebrating the day on Friday,
November 21, 2014. The festivities are sponsored by
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Snohomish County Superior Court and the Clerk’s
office from 9 AM-Noon. Adoption proceedings will be
open to the public and held from 9-10:30 AM. From
10:30-11 there will be a community celebration with
light refreshments. Adoptions will resume at 11 AM.
If you need a little reminder that the legal
profession really does have a positive impact on the
lives of some people, I encourage you to stop in for
the festivities. There will no doubt be no shortage of
smiles, laughs and happy tears; things that are often
in short supply in the courthouse. My thanks to all
who work so hard to put on this important event and
my best wishes to all of the new families that will be
united that day. 
ANnouncing
NATIONAL ADOPTION DAY
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014
9 AM TO NOON (plus the afternoon, if needed)
AS PART OF A NATION-WIDE ADOPTION CELEBRATION,
the Snohomish County Superior Court and the Clerk’s
Office are sponsoring a special adoption celebration on
November 21. This is our TENTH year of participation
in National Adoption Day. Snohomish County continues
to set the standard in Washington on celebrating
National Adoption Day.
THE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
9:00 am to 10:30 am Adoptions (open to the public)
10:30 am to 11:00 am Community celebration with
light refreshments and lunch
11:00 am
Adoptions will resume (open to
the public)
If you would like to participate and want further
information, or if you want to schedule an adoption
hearing, please contact
Ian McCurdy Law Clerk to Judge David Kurtz
Phone: (425) 388-3881
[email protected]
The next (and final) planning meeting is noon to
1:00 pm on Wednesday, November 5, 2014, in the
conference room to Courtroom C201 (near the
elevators). Please join us!
conference in my office. It was divorce case. Oz
comes through the front door with a plastic human
The Lawyer’s
skull on a stick with red and grey ribbons dangling
Road Review
from the skulls base, and little bells at the end of each
ribbon.
by Pete Patterson
“Hex you Husky! Hex Hex!” he said. In spite
of his periodic wagging of the skull at me, raising
Cougar Town
it above the edge of the desk to continue to work
the “spell”, the conference ended successfully. The
On Colby Ave. in my hometown a WSU Cougar
Cougars lost the next day 44-23.
store has opened selling all things Cougar. I am not
Like any resistance member, I would hide in
surprised.
my garage and pretend to be doing carpentry on
I grew up in Everett but was treated as a foreigner
Saturday afternoons when in fact I was tuned in on
due to the Oregon Ducks sweatshirt I was issued by
my clandestine Husky radio station, KOMO, privately
my parents, as that is where they met, Eugene. Starting
listening for the coded messages: “Huskies first down
then I have always been a bit out of step with the rest
and goal to go. Huskies first and goal”, “Cougars
of the town, so perhaps my confusion of Everett’s
third and long yardage. Cougars third and long.”
obsession with all things Cougar is understandable.
Imagine my delight when I learned upon joining
Everyone from my Everett High class who was
Newton Kight that I had stumbled into an entire
going to college went to WSU except three of us
resistance cell. Hell, Henry even has season tickets.
who attended the U of W; Mary Jane Thomas, who
Safe now with my own kind, I can finally write about
clearly was made of the same clay as, say Jacqueline
this.
Kennedy, so could go anywhere without comment,
I suspect now I will receive dozens of e mails,
Gail Peterson who was a transfer from another state
trying
to explain to me why WSU is somehow a more
and therefore doesn’t count, and me, just another kid
pure
experience
than an education in decadent Seattle.
from the mean streets of Everett.
Perhaps I will again hear sighs of pity from those who
As graduation approached in the spring of 1976,
have spent 4 years in a wheat field. No matter, what is
members of my high school class looked upon me with
done is done. I am now working in the safe house of
pity as I would not be moving 300 miles away from
Newton Kight, openly as a Husky.
my parents that fall, near the Idaho border with an age
Bow Down to Washington! 
18 drinking law (since raised to 21), and a college with
a reputation for great parties. They wrote things in my
year book quoting Thoreau, such as I “marched to the
beat of a different drummer.”
Snohomish County
After law school I came back to my home town to
Young Lawyers
practice. Almost everywhere I have turned since then I
note that Everett is a Cougar town. In the fall I would
be approached by people on a Thursday and asked
Attention Snohomish County Young Lawyers: We
“Are you going to the game?” They meant are you
taking an RV to camp out in front of Martin Stadium in will be having our next monthly meeting at Mazatlan
Pullman or have you secured a hotel room there?
Mexican Restaurant (1325 Pacific Avenue) in
Everett on Monday, November 10, 2014 at 5:00
Some are just maniacs. When attorney Oz Dire
p.m. All members are invited to attend!
died, the Everett High Band played the Cougar
fight song at his funeral. The story goes that Oz had
Any active member in the Snohomish County Bar
once got a pair of dark glasses, a white cane and
Association is a young lawyer until the person is
unauthorized entrance to the field at Husky Stadium
36 years of age or until the fifth year in which any
and walked out on to the field when the Husky band
member has been admitted to practice, whichever
was performing at half time, behaving like a blind
man tapping his cane back and forth and disrupting the is later. If you are interested in becoming involved
with the SCYLD, please attend our next meeting
march.
(second Monday of every month at 5:00 p.m.) or email
Oz apparently learned I had attended the UW.
Amanda Effertz at [email protected]. We
One night before the Apple Cup in 1986, and before
mediation was invented, we were to have a settlement look forward to seeing everyone on Monday! 
NOVEMBER 2014 - Snohomish County Bar News 5
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Superior Court of the State of Washington
for Snohomish County
JUDGES
THOMAS J. WYNNE
ANITA L. FARRIS
LINDA C. KRESE
GEORGE N. BOWDEN
ELLEN J. FAIR
MICHAEL T. DOWNES
ERIC Z. LUCAS
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MARYBETH DINGLEDY
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Everett, WA 98201-4060
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PRESIDING JUDGE
MICHAEL T. DOWNES
COURT COMMISSIONERS
LESTER H. STEWART
JACALYN D. BRUDVIK
TRACY G. WAGGONER
SUSAN C. GAER
LEE B.TINNEY
SUPERIOR COURT ADMINISTRATOR
BOB TERWILLIGER
DENNEY JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER (DJJC) Wi-Fi IS HERE 9/18/2014
The Snohomish County Superior Court is pleased to announce that indoor wireless public Internet
access has been expanded from the main campus Courthouse and Mission buildings to the Denney
Juvenile Justice Center and the Multi Service Center buildings.
The wireless service, commonly known as “Wi-Fi,” offers the public, county employees and
attorneys access to the Internet to retrieve email, perform research, surf the Web, do legal research,
etc. The Wi-Fi network named “Public” was designed to be scalable for future expansion and was
supported and built by county staff from the Superior Court Technology Division and the County’s
Information Services Engineering Division. With an established Wi-Fi infrastructure, Wi-Fi can
be expanded to cover new areas of service as well as the option to transfer the Public Wi-Fi service
to the new county courthouse.
For more information go to the Snohomish County Superior Court Website at
http://wa-snohomishcounty.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/12227
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NOVEMBER 2014 - Snohomish County Bar News 11
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We welcome your referrals and are
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Information on collaborative attorneys
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Brown bag lunch every third Wednesday,
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the
cooperation of many minds. - Alexander Graham Bell
Together we will unveil great discoveries.
The SCBA Board and our partners at the SCLS are pleased to bring
you “Discover the Magic of Snohomish County!” As the theme for the
2015 Annual Dinner suggests, this evening is sure to be one that will
encapsulate the essence of our mission while treating you to sensory
delight of delectable cuisine, enrapturing music, tantalizing wine tasting
and magical amazements.
Our annual dinner is a celebration of accomplishments and charitable
support to those who are financially unable to afford legal services
without the help of the pro-bono attorneys and volunteers at Snohomish
Country Legal Services. Join us as we honor our colleagues and raise
money that allows low income families the legal representation they
desperately need through SCLS.
Be sure to look for more details in future publications and Save the Date
on your calendar as you won’t want to miss this enchanting evening!
NOVEMBER 2014 - Snohomish County Bar News 13
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425.339.8556 - [email protected]
Adams & Duncan, Inc., P.S.
3128 COLBY AVENUE
EVERETT, WASHINGTON 98201
TELEPHONE: (425) 339-8556
FACSIMILE: (425) 339-2353
www.AdamsLawyers.com
RICO TESSANDORE
FORMER INSURANCE DEFENSE ATTORNEY
WELCOMES YOUR REFERRALS
PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION
SETTLEMENT GUARDIAN AD LITEM
SERVING WHATCOM, SKAGIT, SNOHOMISH, ISLAND COUNTIES
Licensed in Tulalip Tribal Court
425-493-3452
[email protected]
3400 188th Street SW Suite 310 Lynnwood, WA 98037
1200 Old Fairhaven Parkway, Suite 203, Bellingham, WA 98225
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EXPERIENCE
TENACITY
JUDGMENT
DISPUTE
RESOLVED
ADR Solutions
· All panelists are former Washington State Superior
Court judges
Top Left: CHARLES S. BURDELL JR.
Former King County Superior Court Judge
Top Center: GEORGE FINKLE
Former King County Superior Court Judge
· Mediation, arbitration, hearing officer, special master
and litigation consultation
· Talented and responsive staff
· Comfortable mediation conference rooms
· Well-appointed arbitration courtroom with upgraded
audio/visual technology and party breakout rooms
Top Right: LARRY A. JORDAN
Former King County Superior Court Judge
Bottom Left: PARIS K. KALLAS
Former King County Superior Court Judge
Bottom Right: STEVE SCOTT
Former King County Superior Court Judge
Joshua Green Building · 1425 Fourth Avenue · Suite 300
Seattle, Washington 98101 · 206.223.1669 · jdrllc.com
JAMES SHIPMAN: MEDIATION
James Shipman has been involved in hundreds of mediations both as a mediator and
attorney. He has very high rate of settlement. Mr. Shipman has served as a Pro Tem Commissioner
since 2004 and Snohomish County Arbitrator. He is available at our office or yours and also
appreciates family law referrals.
STEVE UBERTI: REFERRALS AND MEDIATION SERVICES
Steve Uberti has over thirty years of experience in general litigation, business, real estate,
basic estate planning, contracts, employment, insurance claims and personal injury law. He accepts
referrals in all of these areas. Mr. Uberti is available for consultation, mediation and arbitration in
the areas involving personal injury, insurance, employment and contract disputes.
CONTACT US 425-258-6846
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1:00 – 4:00 PM
1:00
9:00 AM
*
Extended Hearing 2 1:00 PM
Domestic Violence
1:00 PM
State Paternity 3, 9 (PM)
Ex Parte Mail
Guardianship/Probate 7 (GP)
LIMIT 14
Interpreter/Extended Hrgs 2,10,11 (XD)
Clerks Dismissals/ (CD)
State telephonic hearings 6 (TH)
Compliance hearings 6 (CG)
State Paternity 3 (PM)
Guardianship/Probate 7 (GP)
LIMIT 14
Child Support Modifications 4 (S1)
Mental Hearings
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Family Law Motions: Matters set on the Family Law Motions Calendar will later be assigned to a specific Commissioner department. The commissioner
department assignments are posted the day of the hearing.
6 Clerks dismissals: Heard on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Wednesdays
State Telephonic Hearings: Heard on the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays
Compliance Hearings: Heard every Wednesday at 10:30
7 Guardianship and Probate hearings are now heard only on this
calendar. (LIMIT 14)
8 Heard in Department A by Department D Commissioner.
9 Heard in Department D by Department A Commissioner.
10 Interpreter Hearings are set only by the Court Commissioner.
11 Pro Se Dissolutions Requiring Interpreter Services – heard in
Dept D – 4th Friday of the month, set by Court Facilitator only.
FURTHER EXPLANATIONS: (OVER)
Confirmations: The local court rules require confirmation of ALL motions. Call 425-388-3587 to confirm all motions, including those set in the Presiding
Department.
1:00 PM
1 Ex Parte: Attorneys will have priority from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. daily.
Pro se parties will have priority from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. daily.
2 Extended hearings are set only by the Court Commissioner.
3 State Initiated Paternity calendar.
4 Child Support Modifications/Adjustments of final support orders.
5 Civil Motions:
The following are heard in Dept. A: Defaults; Discovery Motions and
enforcement thereof; Supplemental Proceedings; Restoration of
Firearms Rights; Unlawful Detainers/Evictions; Receiver Actions and Motions
to Amend Pleadings. Probate and Guardianship are heard in Dept. D.
All other civil motions are heard on the Judges Civil Motions Calendar.
Ex Parte 1
1:00 – 4:00 PM Ex Parte 1, 8 1:00 PM Extended Hearing 2 1:00 PM Domestic Violence
9:00 – 10:30 AM Ex Parte 1
9:00 AM Family Law
9:00 AM Family Law
10:30 AM
Civil Motions 5 LIMIT 14 Domestic Motions
LIMIT14 Domestic Motions
FRIDAY
1:00 – 4:00 PM
1:00 PM Domestic Violence
1:00 – 4:00 PM Ex Parte 1
9:00 AM Family Law
9:00 – 10:30 AM Ex Parte 1
10:30 AM
Civil Motions 5 LIMIT 14 Domestic Motions
1:00 PM
9:00 AM
9:30 am
1:00 PM Extended Hearing 2
9:00 AM Family Law
9:00 AM
LIMIT14 Domestic Motions
10:30 AM
1:00 PM Pro Se Dissolutions 1:00 PM
9:00 AM Family Law
9:00 AM
LIMIT14 Domestic Motions
Domestic Violence
Family Law
LIMIT 14 Domestic Motions
THURSDAY
10:30 AM
1:00 PM Extended Hearing 2 1:00 PM
9:00 AM Family Law
LIMIT14 Domestic Motions
1:00 PM
9:00 AM
DEPT D (PA, PM, S1, TH, GP, CD, XD, CG)
TRACY G. WAGGONER
9:00 AM Ex Parte Mail
9:30 AM State Paternity 3 (PA)
DEPT C (D1) (XC) (VP) (HP)
LEE B. TINNEY
9:00 AM Family Law
LIMIT14 Domestic Motions
DEPT B (D2) (XB) (VP) (HP)
LESTER H. STEWART
9:00 AM Family Law
LIMIT 14 Domestic Motions
Domestic Violence
Family Law
Civil Motions 5 LIMIT 14 Domestic Motions
Ex Parte 1
WEDNESDAY 9:00 – 10:30 AM Ex Parte 1
TUESDAY
MONDAY
DEPT A (CM) (XA) (MU) (EX)
SUSAN C. GAER
9:00 – 11:00 AM Ex Parte 1
11:00 AM
Extended (EX)
Hearings 2
1:00 – 4:00 PM Ex Parte 1
9:00 – 10:30 AM Ex Parte 1
10:30 AM
Civil Motions 5
Snohomish County Superior Court
Court Commissioners’ Calendars (1ST FLOOR)
JUNE 30, 2014 THROUGH JANUARY 2, 2015
Criminal Defense and Military Justice
I invite, appreciate, and thank you for your referrals in
all criminal and military matters.
Michael J. Andrews
Former Special Assistant U.S. Attorney
and JAG Corps Officer
Law Offices of
Cogdill Nichols Rein Wartelle Andrews & Vail
3232 Rockefeller Avenue
Everett, WA 98201
(425) 259-6111
Snohomish County Bar Association
P.O. Box 5429
Everett, WA 98206