SPL is offering free classes for people who are preparing for their citizenship exam. The virtual classes are available in Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese and English languages.
For more information and to register, visit Seattle Public Library’s event calendar HERE.
This very informative video will introduce you to the basice of filing a motion into your family law or civil case. It includes a Q&A session at the end with experienced lawyer Rosemarie LeMoine.
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Very often, lawyers write and post very informative articles to their websites or blogs that provide helpful summaries of legal topics. Running a general Google search will surely include some of these articles in their results – but they will be included with all of the other materials found across the internet. Rather than sifting through all of this unwanted “noise,” you can restrict your search just to law firm websites with a search engine built for this very purpose!
You can read more about the engine HERE.
Or you can go straight to the search engine here: Law Firm Search Engine
Our last video introduced you to the Volunteer Settlement Conference Program – in this video, we spend some time looking at how it works!
Washington Courts: Civil Rule 2A
King County: Local Family Law Rule 10
King County Volunteer Settlement Program
King County Family Court Services
(Rev. 4/2022)
King County Family Court Services can connect you with volunteer attorneys who can act as mediators for your family law case. This free program can save the time and expense of a trial and satisfies the requirement that some form of alternate dispute resolution be attempted.
(Rev. 4/2022)
If you have a civil case in King County Superior Court and need to ask your assigned judge to do something, this packet may be very helpful. It has instructions and forms for submitting a motion (the way you ask the court to do something) and a proposed order (the thing that you’re asking the court to do).
This is NOT meant for family law cases or for presentation to the Ex Parte Department.
You can order the packet from our website HERE.
The Library can be contacted at (206) 477-1305 or Services@KCLL.org
This video looks at some important aspects of filing various types of motions into your family law case.
Below timepoints for some specific discussions:
Master list of documents that need to be filed with Ex Parte via the Clerk https://dja-eweb.kingcounty.gov/expar…
King County Superior Court forms https://kingcounty.gov/courts/clerk/f…
Direct link to the List of Submitted Documents: https://kingcounty.gov/~/media/courts…
(Rev. 4/2022)
Unpaid traffic fines will no longer be used as grounds for suspending a person’s driver’s license. Not only that, but licenses that are already suspended – due to fines or a failure to appear for a noncriminal moving violation – will be reinstated. This moratorium stems from a recent Thurston County court case that led to negotiations between the ACLU and the State of Washington.
The moratorium will be in place until SB 5226 takes effect in 2023 – which will still allow suspensions for failing to appear in court.
You can read the full article from the Seattle Times HERE.
Barbara Engstrom, Executive Director King County Law Library
The language describing the mitigation measures used to counteract the pandemic would imply this past year has been one of stasis. (Lockdown, suspension of services, closures to the public) If anything, the rapidity of change during this period has been unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes. Even as we begin to reach vaccination benchmarks, the churn of new statutes, court rules, opinions, and other norms continue apace. Keeping abreast of this constant flux of information can be daunting. Fortunately, there are several great resources that aggregate legal information related to COViD. The following are some resources available either online or via the King County Law Library that can help you stay informed.
Landlord Tenant
Perhaps the area of law that has seen the greatest change is landlord tenant. Stoel Rives has produced a regularly updated guide to track the changes to state, federal and local rules related to the eviction moratoria. The most recent version is current as of March 9, 2021 and is 19 pages of densely packed information detailing the dates and consequences of the various rules and orders along with references to litigation filed in response. The current version can be found here https://www.stoel.com/legal-insights/legal-updates/covid-19-update-stoel-rives-guide-to-washington-st KIng County has information on the Eviction Prevention and Rental Assistance Program here including access to the EPRAP portal for both landlords and tenants. https://kingcounty.gov/depts/community-human-services/COVID/eviction-prevention-rent-assistance.aspx The Northwest Justice Project’s Washington Law Help website has information regarding eviction and tenant’s right geared for non-attorneys with videos and informational guides and a summary of the new 2021 legislation in an easy to digest infographics https://www.washingtonlawhelp.org/issues/health/coronavirus-covid-19#content
Consumer Law
The National Consumer Law Center’s (NCLC) Digital Library has a running list of current awareness articles under New Developments on their homepage. These timely articles cover many COVID related consumer law issues and link to treatises in the KCLL’s NCLC digital collection. Some recent examples include: Consumer Law Implications of the American Recovery Plan Act, Cheat Sheet to COVID-19 Bankruptcy Provisions and Sunsets, Protecting Wages, Benefits, and Bank Accounts from Judgment Creditors, Homeowner Right During COVID Pandemic, and Essential Reading for FDCPA Practitioners. The NCLC Digital Library is available for remote access via the law library’s Remote Databases link. https://kcll.org/remote-databases/
Aggregate Resources
Our newest acquisition for remote access, the Cheetah Database from Wolters Kluwer, has COVID related current awareness information for an array of practice areas. The tax materials include 2020 Tax Legislation: Law, Explanation & Analysis, CCH Tax Briefings and Federal Tax Day with emerging information on executive and congressional branch activity along with IRS letter rulings and technical advice memoranda. Labor & Employment resources include the Family and Medical Leave Guide, the Employee Benefits Newsletter and the Unemployment/ Social Security Newsletter. The Cheetah COVID database also has white papers and a news aggregator for the breaking COVID related legal news.
In addition to current awareness resources, the Wolters Kluwer database also includes access to the following eBooks: Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership, Drafting Limited Liability Company Operating Agreements, Drafting Prenuptial Agreements, Drunk Driving Defense, Elder Law Answer Book, Elder Law Forms Manual, Employee Dismissal Law & Practice, Law of Lawyering, Law of Restitution, Motions Practice, Scott and Ascher on Trusts, and Special Needs Trust Handbook.
Another very helpful COVID related legal news source is available from Law360. Normally Law360 requires a subscription, but Lexis is providing free access to their coronavirus coverage. This includes news stories and expert analysis. You can find the Law360 coronavirus coverage here. https://www.law360.com/coronavirus
The Coronavirus Legal Daily (CLD)is an offshoot of Lex Blog, the legal blog aggregator. You’ll find new posts featured daily under the topic areas of employment & labor, health care, corporate & commercial and administrative law. There is also a continually updated list of the latest blog posts. You can access the Coronavirus Legal Daily at https://www.coronaviruslegaldaily.com/
For the academic perspective, Jurist (a project from the University of Pittsburg School of Law in collaboration with other law schools to create and make publicly available high-quality legal news and analysis resources) created a COVID-19 Special Coverage page that features legal news and analysis from the United States and world-wide. This is an excellent resource for understanding foreign and international law perspectives. https://www.jurist.org/covid-coverage/
WSBA & KCBA
I would be remiss if I failed to mention the wealth of very practical information available on both the WSBA and KCBA’s Coronvirus webpages. The WSBA’s coronavirus information can be found here. https://wsba.org/for-legal-professionals/member-support/covid-19 and the KCBA’s coronavirus information can be found here. https://www.kcba.org/For-Lawyers/COVID-19-Resources
King County Law Library
As always, the law library is here to help if you want more information on any of the resources listed. We are happy to work with you either in person at the Seattle or Kent Branches or remotely via email or video reference. Come by or drop us an email at services@kcll.org Keep an eye on our website the latest on our hours of operation and information on our newest resources. www.kcll.org
