WDPAC PROGRAMS
WSBA CLE CREDIT:� The director will endeavor to enter�your attendance at WDPAC’s programs�very soon after the�program IF you�sign and provide your WSBA No.� Sometimes�attendees forget to sign in, sometimes their writing is illegible, and sometimes the director makes a mistake and skips a name.� The WSBA allows WDPAC to submit attendance only once so if you discover�that you have not been credited with attendance at a CLE program you know you attended, you can either submit your attendance on line yourself at the WSBA website or you can do it�old school and simply list the program on your hard copy CLE declaration.
To register for WDPAC programs send an e-mail to WDPAC@aol.com indicating your wish to attend, specify the program and date, and be sure to include your name, WSBA no., office address, and phone number.
May 19, 2012, Seattle. – Save the date.
Media and the Death Penalty. Featuring Ken Armstrong, award winning investigative jouralist. Now with the Seattle Times, Ken was co-author of the multi-part Chicago Tribune series on Illinois’ broken capital punishment system. Ken’s investigation and reports were highly instrumental in then Governor George Ryan commuting 160 death sentences and a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois. More information coming soon.
December16 – 17, 2011. Seattle.
Approved for 12 MCLE credits including 1 hour of ethics credit. Two day program on written advocacy for capital trial attorneys. Intensive and interactive, we will focus on identifying issues that must be raised before trial and how to thoroughly research and effectively brief arguments to save your client’s life. The faculty will be anchored by Professor Robert C. Owen. Now a visiting professor at Northwestern School of Law in Chicago, since becoming a lawyer in 1989, Rob has defended people facing the death penalty at every level of the state and federal court system, including arguing four cases successfully at the United States Supreme Court (Tennard v. Dretke (2004), Abdul-Kabir v. Quarterman (2007), Brewer v. Quarterman (2007), and Skinner v. Switzer (2010)). He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Georgia in 1984, earning an A.B. in Comparative Literature with highest honors. After completing an M.A. in Speech Communication at the same institution in 1986, he received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1989. Mr. Owen began his career as a lawyer with the nonprofit Texas Resource Center in Austin, representing prisoners on Texas’ death row. After six years there, he served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Seattle from 1995-1998 before returning to Texas. He is regularly invited to appear as a faculty member at trainings around the nation for capital defense lawyers, and has testified before state legislatures in Washington and Texas concerning proposed changes in death penalty law. Since 2006, he has been co-director of the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas at Austin, where law students in 2008 recognized him for having gone “above and beyond” on their behalf. He is a recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Award in recognition of his work in representing condemned prisoners.
More information TBA.