Recent Publications and Speaking Engagements

• "Judicial Decision Making and Fact Finding," Judicial College for new Judges in Washington State (January, 2006);
• "Class Action Litigation, A Judicial Perspective on What Works and What Doesn't Work," Washington State Bar Association (June, 2005);
• "The First Amendment and Judicial Management Issues," National Judicial College (May, 2005);
• "What Was The Judge Thinking? The Duty to Decide," Washington State Bar Association Public Information and Media Relations Committee program (May, 2005);
• "Winning Without Trial," Washington State Bar Association Seminar (April, 2005); Workshop on Trial Advocacy Skills, a program co-sponsored by the Uganda Law Society and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), in Kampala, Uganda (March, 2005);
• "Judicial Decision Making and Fact Finding," Judicial College for new Judges in Washington State (January, 2005);
• "Courtside View of RPC Pitfalls and Pratfalls," in King County Bar Association's Annual Ethics Workout (December, 2004);
• "Impeach Justice Douglas: Handling Controversies Ethically and with Professionalism," Washington State Bar Association (December, 2004);
• "Courts and the Media," National Conference of Metropolitan Courts (September, 2004); "Judicial Impartiality," King County Bar Association Labor Law Section (June, 2004);
• "How (Not) to Talk to a Judge," Panel Discussion, in Washington State Trial Lawyers Association seminar, The Early Years of Litigation Practice (May, 2004);
• "Managing the Trial Efficiently: Bench Trial Considerations" in Advanced Trial Management, Superior Court Judges Association Spring Judicial Conference (April, 2004);
• "Gag Orders, Restraints and RPC 3.6" in Criminal Law Review, Superior Court Judges Association Spring Judicial Conference (April, 2004);
• "Judicial Decision Making and Fact Finding," Judicial College for new Judges in Washington State (January, 2004);
• "Courting Trouble," Opinion piece in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (November 16, 2003); Panelist and Presenter, "Control of the Courtroom," King County Bar Association Bench-Bar Conference (November, 2003);
• "Making Public Statements Within the Parameters of Judicial Canons," Conference on Transparency in the Judicial System, The Judiciary of the State of Hawai'i (November, 2003);
• "Ethics and Judicial Free Speech," Fall Judicial Conference, Washington State Superior Court Judges Association (September, 2003);
• "Making Your Case in the Court of Public Opinion," Panelist, National Conference of Public Information Officers, Annual Meeting (August, 2003);
• "The Sound of Silence: Thoughts of a Sitting Judge on the Problem of Free Speech and the Judiciary in a Democracy," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2 (August, 2003);
• "Judicial Independence and Judicial Accountability: An Elected Judge's Perspective," published in volume entitled Judges and Judicial Accountability (Commonwealth Lawyers Association, 2003).
• "They're Never Gone, But Can You Get Them? Electronic Documents in the Discovery Process," co-presenter, Pacific Coast Labor & Employment Law Conference (May, 2003); "The Structure of the State Judicial System and the Nature of Common Law," at Law School for Legislators, sponsored by the Washington State Bar Association and the Council on Public Legal Education (January, 2003);
• "Problems Arising From New Standards Applied to Judicial Free Speech," Annual Conference of the Judicial Conduct Commission of the State of Washington (December, 2002);
• "Problems Overlooked in and Created by Republican Party of Minnesota v. White," State-Federal Judicial Council and Bench-Bar-Press Committee of King County Bar Association (November, 2002);
• Moderator and Co-Chair, King County Bar Association Bench-Bar Conference; Presenter, "Ethics and Discovery for the Trial Lawyer" (November, 2002);
• "Judges, the Media, and Ethics," Portion of General Jurisdiction Course given to new state court trial judges from all parts of the United States, National Judicial College (October, 2002);
• "How to Persuade a Judge to Rule in Your Favor," in Annual Tort Law Review, Washington State Trial Lawyers (September, 2002);
• "Please Make Me Shut Up," Op-ed article in Seattle Post-Intelligencer (May 1, 2002);
• "High Profile Cases and the Media," Superior Court Judges Association Spring Conference (April, 2002);
• "Judicial Independence and Judicial Accountability: An Elected Judge's Perspective," presentation at Commonwealth Lawyers Association Judicial Workshop, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (April, 2002);
• "The Right to a Jury Trial in the North American System of Justice," in a conference on jury reform entitled Una Valoracion Critica Desde La Perspectiva Del Derecho Comparado, in Managua, Nicaragua, organized by the European Union (February, 2002);
• "Judges in the Media Crucible," ABA National Convention in Chicago (August, 2001);
• Judicial Panelist, "Deposition Practice: Uses, Abuses and What You Can Do About Them," Washington State Bar Association (November, 2000);
• "Judicial Decision-Making" for Arbitration Training, King County Bar Association (August, 2000);
• Guide to the King County Superior Court, for the Washington Lawyers Practice Manual (1999, 2000 and 2001 editions).