News The NEXT BAR MIXER (aka Ex-Parte) Hosted by Mill Creek Law

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The official publication of the
June Volume 44
2016 Number 6 Snohomish County Bar Association
Mark Your Calendars, Take Advantage of
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your Membership Benefits:
The NEXT BAR MIXER
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(aka Ex-Parte)
Thursday, May 26, 2016
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5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Hosted by Mill Creek Law
4220 132nd St. SE, Suite 201
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Mill Creek, WA 98012
Invitation to current SCBA members only.
RSVP to SCBA office [phone].
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SCBA News InsIde ThIs Issue
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Bar Association
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William Sullivan
Editor
« The Lawyer’s Road Review ~ Talk to Me Goose
Terri Callantine
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« Commissioners' Calendar
& Website
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Snohomish County Bar
Association Officers
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President
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dverTIsIng And ubmIssIons
Michael O’Meara
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Tom Cox
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sCbA C e
AlendAr of venTs
June 2016 July 2016 August 2016
13th Young Lawyers Division Meeting 4th Courthouse Closed 8th Young Lawyers Division Meeting
15th Deadline SCBA Newsletter 11th Young Lawyers Division Meeting 15th Deadline SCBA Newsletter
16th SCBA Board of Trustees Meeting 15th NO Deadline SCBA Newsletter 15th Family Law Section Meeting
20th Family Law Section Meeting 18th Family Law Section Meeting 19th SCBA Golf Tournament
21st SCBA Board of Trustees Meeting
28th Aqua-Sox Game
September 2016 October 2016 November 2016
5th Courthouse Closed 10th Young Lawyers Division Meeting 11th Courthouse Closed
10th SCBA Annual Dinner 15th Deadline SCBA Newsletter 14th Young Lawyers Division
12th Young Lawyers Division Meeting 17th Family Law Section Meeting Meeting
15th Deadline SCBA Newsletter 20th SCBA Board of Trustees Meeting 15th Deadline SCBA Newsletter
15th SCBA Board of Trustees Meeting 17th SCBA Board of Trustees
19th Family Law Section Meeting Meeting
22nd Swearing In Ceremony 21st Family Law Section Meeting
30th CLE Small Law Office Practice 24th & 25th Courthouse Closed
s C A
uperIor ourT ssIgnmenTs
Presiding Judge: Judge Linda C. Krese
Trial Calendar Call and Motions to Continue Trial
Dept. 11

Juvenile Court: Judge Dingledy
Judge Kurtz
Commissioner Gaer1
Civil Motions: Judge Appel June 1-3
Judge Okrent June 6-17
Judge Fair June 23-30

Criminal Hearings: Judge Weiss June 1
Judge Fair June 2-3, 9-10
Judge Downes June 6-8, 13-15
Judge Judge June 16-17, 23-24, 30
Judge Ellis June 20-22, 27-29

Criminal Motions: Judge Weiss June 2-3
Judge Downes June 9-10, 16-17
Judge Ellis June 23-24, 30

Criminal Dept. Judges: ..................................Judges Wynne, Bowden, Fair, Appel, Wilson, Ellis, Weiss
Civil Dept. Judges: .........................................Judges Farris, Lucas, Okrent, Judge, Downes
Ex Parte/Commissioner Civil Motions: .......Commissioner Waggoner
Family Law Calendars: .................................Commissioners Stewart, Brudvik and Tinney
Please note: All assignments are subject to change without notice and assignments may not change on the first day of the month.
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you, please come to the buffet dinner at 6:00 p.m. to
hear about the 300 yard drives and miraculous 30 foot
f d
rom The esk of The putts (or the slices and hooks depending on the level of
presIdenT honesty). The entry fee for golf and dinner is $100.00.
As I mentioned in a previous column, the Annual
g p
urjIT Andher
Dinner is on September 10, 2016 at Embassy Suites in
Lynnwood and invitations will be sent in the near future
SCBA Meetings and Events with a deadline for reservations of August 30, 2016.
The By-Laws dictate that, among other things, Ticket prices will remain $100 per person or $95/person
the SCBA should strive to provide opportunities for if you would like to buy a table of ten (10). If you
members to interact with other members, promote purchase an entire table, you or your firm will receive
bench-bar relations, and provide legal education recognition for your support and a placard with your
programs. There are many events, meetings, firm or individual names on that table for an advertising
organizations, etc. that provide this opportunity for all cost of $150.00. This is not only a social and charitable
members. These opportunities are listed on the top opportunity but a night to celebrate some in our legal
of page 3 of the Newsletter in the SCBA Calendar of community that are doing exceptional work including
Events. We plan and fund some of these events for Judge of the Year (on a side note, if you have any
the benefit of the membership and the only way the members of the Judiciary you would like to nominate
expense and effort is profitable is by your attendance please contact Joyce).
and participation. Two free CLEs—I say again—CLEs that are free
As the front page of this Newsletter advertises, Mill with your paid membership to the SCBA, are scheduled
Creek Law, located at 4220 132nd St. SE, Ste. 201, for September 30, 2016 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 6 credit
Mill Creek, WA 98012, are gracious enough to host an hours on Small Office Management and on December
Ex Parte social event from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m on 2, 2016 9:00 am to 12:15 p.m. 3 ethics credits, Ethics
Thursday May 26, 2016. Refreshments and snacks will Smorgasbord.
be provided and the environment is an opportunity to Finally, your Board meets on every third Thursday
meet your colleagues in informal, social environment of every month, save August, to discuss issues that
where conversations and interactions about anything, concern you. You, as a member, are more than
not just work. welcome to join and participate in our discussions
On Thursday July 28, 2016, will be our annual and we welcome your input and perspective. Please
SCBA night with the Aquasox. As is tradition, participate, please get involved and take advantage of
member’s tickets are free and non-member tickets are the opportunities. Thank you. 
$10.00. Please RSVP with the SCBA office (425)388-
3056. The game starts at 7:05 p.m. with the Aqua-
s C
nohomIsh ounTy
Sox playing a rivalry game against the Vancouver
y l
Canadians; it is Aloha Night Presented By Kama’aina oung Awyers
Grindz and if you wear your favorite Hawaiian shirt
you will be automatically qualified to win great prizes.
Bring the kids; they will be able to participate in Kids Attention Snohomish County Young Lawyers:
Run the Bases Presented By Woodland Park Zoo after
We will be having our next monthly meeting at
the game. It is also Tasty Thursdays presented by Coors
Emorys on Silver Lake in Everett on Monday, June
Light with $2.00 12oz Coors Light, $2.00 Sodas, $2.00
13, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. Members are welcome anytime
Hot Dogs, and $2.00 Popcorn. We had a great turnout
between 5 and 6 pm.
last year of almost 50 members, friends and relatives,
All members are invited to attend!
and we hope to do better this year.
Any active member in the Snohomish County Bar
Another annual favorite that we organize is the
Association is a young lawyer until the person is 36
Golf Tournament—the format and the venue has been
years of age or until the fifth year in which any member
changed and it will be held on Friday August 19, 2016
has been admitted to practice, whichever is later.
at Harbour Pointe Golf Club with a modified shotgun
start at 1:30 p.m. We hope the venue will be more If you are interested in becoming involved with
appealing to the membership the modified shotgun start the SCYLD, please attend our next meeting (second
will allow everyone to start and end close to the same Monday of every month at 5:00 p.m.) or email Justin
time so everyone can enjoy the buffet dinner together. Morgan at [email protected].
Even if golf is too exasperating and frustrating for We look forward to seeing everyone on Monday! 
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plays while the sailors stare at the night sky and smoke
The lAwyer’s cigars. Looks pretty good, particularly the idea that
r r one has music following you around sort of defining
oAd evIew
the mood at any given time. Somehow this doesn’t
by peTe pATTerson sound like the Navy lawyers life Bob described.
According to Wikipedia in 2015 Top Gun was
selected by the Library of Congress to be included
Talk to Me Goose
in the National Film Registry because the film is
culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.
Really? Well, I get the culture part.
So much of the music is sown into the fabric of
what youth and summer is all about. Everett native
Kenny Loggins performed the title track, Danger
Zone as well as a youthful Playin with the Boys.
Cheap Trick sang Mighty Wings about the F-14
Tomcat featured in the film, but who could forget the
Righteous Brothers You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling
which became the official theme song for the firm I
had with my Dad and eventually Lisa Micheli and
Thirty years this summer, and a generation ago, the Ruth Spalter. Our intrepid staffer Patty Young put
film Top Gun debuted as the season’s blockbuster. The together a CD soundtrack for our firm, starting with
cast included now icons such as Anthony Edwards, Loving Feeling. I still have it.
Tom Skerritt, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer and of
The lines from the film are just stuck in our heads.
course in the lead, Tom Cruise, call sign “Maverick”.
“She’s lost that loving feeling. I hate it when she does
Occasionally surfing the web one encounters one that”. “Launch the Alert 5 aircraft” or “Talk to me
of those “where are they now?” photos. The case of Goose”. You can still say these things to anyone who
Top Gun did not escape this treatment. Most are not was born before 1970 and they know exactly what you
that notable, except for Tom Cruise who seems to mean.
suffer from FTA, or Failure to Age.
Back in the 1980’s came a client who had seen the
As a still relatively young man at time of the film’s film. Like Maverick, this fellow was always getting
release one could not see the show and wonder if he himself into some kind of trouble but unlike Maverick
shouldn’t have joined the Navy. Our own Bob Getz needed a lawyer to get out of it. He strongly identified
did join, probably for better reasons than seeing a with the Maverick character and decided my call
movie, and when I asked him if I shouldn’t regret my sign should be “Maddog”. Yeah that’s really me, Pete
decision to remain a civilian he simply said “Don’t!”. “Maddog” Patterson.
Yet he is full of great stories and one has to wonder,
He would call me up and imitate the sound of
isn’t there some adventure I missed out on?
air to air radio calls; “Pssst. Maddog Maddog, this is
Talking to Bob the experience of being a JAG Maverick! Psst, I have got bogey’s all over my tail!
officer on a “bird farm”, the naval parlance for aircraft Psst launch the alert 5 aircraft! Psst”. And I did.
carrier, was a mixed bag. While the film was a great
Eventually Maverick found himself in a banana
recruiting medium the Hollywood version of the life
republic far from the protection of his wingman
of a sailor was far from the mark. It is tedious, and
Maddog, and was downed. I still morn his passing.
time away from home is long. On the other hand when
But unlike Tom Cruise mourning his crewman Goose I
an jet’s engine fails and the pilot has to punch out
have no dog tags to clutch then throw into the sea in a
guys like Bob have to interview the guy, assuming he
sort of burial from the deck of a carrier. I just have the
survives, and ask hard questions about why he lost the
license plate I had made bearing my call sign that was
governments multimillion dollar airplane.
affixed to my old mustang, my own mighty wings of
For us though much like the CBS serial JAG it youth now gone.
all looks like a lot of fun. Bad guys are identified,
The music still takes me back to those early days
romance is thrown in for spice, there are some guns
of the practice. It was a Danger Zone. Talk to me
drawn and in the end the good guys win, the anthem
Goose. 
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Join us in support of
Snohomish County Legal
Services and the
Campaign for Equal Justice.
Thursday, June 29, 5:00-7:00 pm
Diamond Knot Brewpub @MLT
5602 232nd Street SW #106
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RSVP to [email protected] to
receive a free drink ticket!
SAVE THE DATE!
The Snohomish County Young Lawyers Division
is pleased to sponsor:
A NETWORKING & SOCIAL EVENT AT
A SEATTLE MARINERS GAME
at Safeco Field

SUNDAY, June 26, 2016 AT 1:10 P.M.
vs. the St. Louis Cardinals
Tickets: $23.00 - includes entrance and reserved seating
with your young lawyer colleagues (tickets must be
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Starting at 11:30 a.m., enjoy pre-game socializing
at the Pyramid Brewery located at 1201 1st Ave S,
directly across the street from Safeco Field.
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Tickets are available on a first to pay basis.
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SAVE THE DATE
Snohomish County Bar Association
Golf Tournament
AUGUST 19, 2016
1:00 P.M.
SHOT GUN START!
NEW COURSE!
NEW FORMAT!
This year the annual golf tournament will be held at a NEW
venue, the Harbour Point Golf Club. Another improvement:
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following in which we want to include others that were not
able to golf, but are available for dinner and a social hour.
Teaser alert: more information to follow in the next few weeks.
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