Second Annual Women's Law Update CLE

WWL Second Annual Women’s Law Update CLE

WWL and Legal Voice are proud to present the Second Annual Women's Law Update CLE, which will include presentations on recent court decisions and legislation affecting women. The CLE will take place Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 at 2:30 pm at K&L Gates, located at 2016 925 4th Ave, Ste 2900 in Seattle (a webcast will also be available). Application for two general CLE credits has been approved.

Plan to attend “Owning Our Stories”, Washington Women Lawyers’ Annual Banquet and Awards Ceremony later in the evening at Sodo Park located at 3200 1st Ave S. Seattle.  

Register here for the Annual Event.

WWL Second Annual Women’s Law Update CLE

October 14, 2016

OUTLINE

• Speaker introductions: Pam Crone, Nancy Sapiro, Janet Chung

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

• Legislative Session Overview

o “Short” regular session

o Session reality: politics and division

o Opportunities and challenges: now and beyond

• Violence Against Women

o Rape kit tracking (HB 2530)

o Improving sexual assault protection orders (SB 6151)

o Statute of limitations for prosecuting rape (HB 2873, SB 6561)

• Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights

o Contraceptive access

 Reimbursement for 12 months of contraception (HB 2465)

 Pharmacy access (HB 2681)

o Medicaid suspension during incarceration (SB 6430)

o Defunding abortion providers (HB 2294, HB 2754)

o Prohibiting sex-selective abortions (SB 6612)

o Requiring parental notification for abortion (SB 5289)

• Family Law

o Changes to child support schedule (HB 1037)

o Paternity disestablishment (SB 6452/HB 2612)

• Economic and Employment Rights

o Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (SB 6149, HB 2307)

o Equal Pay Opportunity Act (HB 1646)

• Other important battles

• What’s Next?

CASE LAW UPDATE

• Key U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, October Term 2015
• Recent Ninth Circuit Decisions
• Recent Washington Supreme Court Decisions

FACULTY BIOS

• PAMELA CRONE is a lawyer and lobbyist and has represented clients in Olympia since 2000. Her lobbying portfolio includes women’s legal rights, health care, domestic violence, and economic and social justice issues. Pamela is an adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law. She graduated from Ohio State and the University of Florida Law School.

• NANCY SAPIRO, an attorney since 1987, works as a lobbyist/governmental relations consultant in Washington State where she focuses on issues of advocacy, social and economic justice, women’s health, domestic violence, and education. Prior to this, she worked for approximately 10 years for Legal Voice, a women’s legal rights organization that works to advance the law through litigation, legislative advocacy and legal rights education strategies. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.

• JANET S. CHUNG, LEGAL & LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL, focuses her advocacy on expanding economic justice for women, protecting access to comprehensive health care, and combating gender discrimination in the workplace and in schools. Her legislative advocacy has included efforts to establish minimum paid sick and safe days standards, to expand equal pay protections for workers, to protect pregnant women in the workplace, to expand insurance coverage for reproductive health services, and to strengthen laws relating to campus sexual assault. Her litigation successes include cases defending state pharmacy rules to limit health care refusals, challenging gender stereotyping of workers with family caregiving responsibilities, protecting indigent litigants’ access to courts, and overturning Idaho’s abortion law that made it a crime for a woman to terminate her own pregnancy. Ms. Chung is a lead convener of a regional women’s health advocates’ table that develops shared priorities and strategies on reproductive health issues. She is a frequent speaker on gender and the law, reproductive health, workplace discrimination, and Title IX, and currently serves on the board of APACE, a nonprofit focused on API civic empowerment. Prior to joining Legal Voice, Ms. Chung taught at Seattle University School of Law, practiced employment and business law, was a Georgetown Women’s Law & Public Policy Fellow with the National Partnership for Women and Families, and served as law clerk to a federal judge. Ms. Chung is a past President of Washington Women Lawyers and a fellow with the Washington State Bar Leadership Institute. She is a graduate of Yale College and Columbia University School of Law.