NOTE: 2022 Ethics conference registration is now full, email wda@defensenet.org to be added to our waitlist! We will inform waitlist members if additional seats become available by the afternoon of 12/15/22.

Say goodbye to zoom and hello to colleagues at WDA’s Annual Ethics Conference. We will be in person at the Century Ballroom in Seattle for this year’s conference on the ethics of plea bargaining and counseling clients.

Sessions for this event include:

• Our Keynote Speaker: Dan Canon, civil rights lawyer, law professor and author of Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class
• Jury Diversity and GR 37  – Using GR 37 to address implicit and explicit bias in jury selection, with a panel discussion of experienced practitioners.
• What Matters Most -Interviewing and Counseling the Parent Client
• When to Say No – Ethically Declining or Terminating Representation
• Ethically Representing Non-Citizen Clients
• Pushing Back- Getting What You Need to Prepare Your Case for Plea or Trial

For a full schedule, click here.

To register, email wda@defensenet.org with “Ethics” in the subject line. 6.25 CLE Credits have been requested from WSBA. We look forward to seeing you there!