Community Legal Services (CLS) Volunteer Training Opportunities

Community Legal Services programs offer CLEs that are used to train volunteers in a substantive area of law where clients have legal needs. We encourage all volunteer attorneys to take advantage of these opportunities to expand their legal knowledge and better serve our clients.

Upcoming CLEs for 2010

 

Date & Time	Title	Sponsored By	Open to	Agenda &/or Registration
January 28th, 2010 9:00a.m.-3:45p.m. at Perkins Coie, 1201 3rd Ave., Suite 4800, Seattle, WA 98101	Dealing with Debt: Legal Roads to Resolutions	Intake and Referral and Neighborhood Legal Clinics	Open to Current volunteers or those wishing to participate in the new Debt Workshop Pilot Project	Register at http://www.kcba.org/secure/clsregistration-nlc.aspx

KCBA Community Legal Services CLE Video Library
If you want to volunteer and were unable to attend the relevant CLE in person, you can obtain “audio-visual (AV)” CLE credits by watching the training on DVD. A complete list of CLEs available from our library is provided below. To request a DVD, please send email to CLS@KCBA.org and include the title of the video.

 

Title	Sponsoring CLS Program	Date	Length & CLE Credits	Waitlist for this video?
Landlord/Tenant Law	Neighborhood Legal Clinics	10/3/2008	3.0 hours 3.0 general	Yes
Elder Law Issue Spotting	Neighborhood Legal Clinics	6/20/2008	3.5 hours 3.5 general	Yes
Family Law Issue Spotting	Neighborhood Legal Clinics	3/14/2008	3.25 hours 3.25 general	Yes
Advising & Representing Low-Income Tenants Facing Eviction	Housing Justice Project	3/2/2007	7 hours 6.5 gen & .5 ethics	Yes
Civil Procedure 101: Understanding the Court Process	All CLS Programs	8/18/2006	3.75 hours 3.75 general	No

Additional CLE Credits for Pro Bono Client Work
Regulation 103(g) of the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) allows attorneys to earn CLE credit for some of their volunteer client work at the KCBA CLS Programs. A lawyer may earn six credits per year – two for Pro Bono training and four for Pro Bono service – for Pro Bono services delivered through a qualified legal services provider (per APR 8(e)(2)). The two hours of Pro Bono training must be completed through a qualified service provider each year in which pro bono service is given in order to earn credit for the pro bono service. CLS Programs are qualified legal service provider. The credits for the training will be classified as General credits or Ethics credits, depending on the program. The credits for volunteering at the clinic count as General credits. For more information, see the WSBA CLE Rules.
Instructions to report your hours on the WSBA web site (PDF)

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