Volume XIII, Issue II
March/April 1999

Ask yourself, do you believe that bar dues entitle you to discounts, that CLEs are too expensive, that for the price of a CLE you really should get a lunch, and that a CLE should show you how to run a successful practice, not just how to make a motion? If you answered "yes," then UNITE my brethren at the WYLD Regional Joint Midyear Convention. Bud, this CLE’s for you. On Friday, May 14, 1999, and Saturday, May 15, 1999, you have the rare opportunity to seize seven (7) CLE credits at the mother of all discounts.

But wait, there’s more. In addition to the affordability of this year’s program, for those of you who wish to be dined during your CLE experience, we have rented an entire hotel and commandeered their banquet facilities to accommodate the voices of our people. We heard you young lawyers and are offering not one, but two lunches complete with celebrity appearances and keynote speeches by Attorney General Christine Gregiore on Friday May 13, 1999, and Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders on Saturday, May 14, 1999.

Further, here, and only here, it will be revealed (and you will learn for the first time) the name of the Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year. Glamour and glitz, and the "envelope please" all while the food is still coming. But don’t think for one minute we have gone Hollywood and left you behind, because ladies and gentlemen, our costs, are your costs. This is a no-profit, trimmed to the bone, maximum benefit Young Lawyer Midyear Lunch Extravaganza.

While I am tempted to throw in the Ginsu Knife at this point, and mention the scantily clad half-time entertainment, there are still more CLE thrills. For instance, this year’s CLE program truly has something to offer every young lawyer regardless of your years of practice, area of practice, or insurance limits for malpractice. Where else can you find a one of a kind, interactive, roundtable Keynote CLE series that invites you — yes even you in the back row — to speak to the land’s highest judges and ask them your questions, tell them your ideas and talk face-to-face like coffee house companions? Also, ask yourself this: Where else could I see the president of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association and the president of the Washington Defense Trial Lawyers Association together on the same stage, for the first time, in a rock’em sock’em, blow by blow, thrilla in Manila spectacle of spectacles entitled "Sharing the Farvergnugen."

And, as if that is not enough, you will bear witness to untold truths from those who know about survival of the fittest and can share their stories among the living. These survivors and now leaders in there tiger-filled legal arenas, will tell us the tales from their travels into the recesses of the jungles of government lawyering, and lawyering in the largest of firms and in the smallest. We will present to you, "Managing Your Caseload and Your Boss: The Art of Survival." Move over State Bar, look out U of W, unadulterated thrills is our middle name and our operators are standing by.

But, before you call, because we believe that at a CLE program should offer more than CLEs, we have added a Professional Development Conference created to give you information that you have never heard from any CLE stage. You want programs on how to outmarket the pros, we’ve got ‘em. You want to know how a sole practitioner can market like the big guys, you’ll get it. Do you want to learn how you can be a better communicator than the Teflon President himself? We’ve got the inside scoop. So much information, so little cost, and so many speakers.

Knowledge not enough? You want the poundage too, don’t you? We will not disappoint. On Friday, May 13, 1999, and Saturday May 14, 1999, we will give you materials that will make Monica Lewinsky’s deposition transcripts mere Cliffs Notes for our Arnold Schwarzenegger–packed materials. Had enough yet? Ready to sign up right now? Read on, there’s more!

As an added incentive, we’ll throw in a free seminar on financial management designed by young lawyers, for young lawyers, with young lawyers and their student loan debts in mind. Got debt? Good-bye Money Store, hello Young Lawyer Midyear.

Finally, with or without the double bonus super duper Ronco Universal Legal Answer Finder Handbook, this year’s Annual Keynote CLE series and Professional Development Conference can’t be underestimated, overvalued, undersold, outdone or undercut. I will stand on my head to get you to attend this CLE series, I won’t be undersold and you won’t believe how much fun you’ll have! I GUARANTEE IT!

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