9 am                       Welcome- Judge Dean S. Lum (ret.), President WCHS

                                Opening Remarks- Chief Justice Debra L. Stephens

9:15 am                   Courts under Pressure: Judicial & Lawyer speech (1.5 hours)

Michael King (moderator), Hon. John Erlick (King County Superior Court, retired, and former member, Judicial Conduct Commission), Jim Lobsenz (Carney Badley Spellman), and Cesar Kalinowski (Davis Wright Tremaine)

10:45 am                  Break

11 am                        Partisanship in Washington judicial elections and selection-a short history (1.25 hours)

                                  Professor Hugh Spitzer (University of Washington School of Law)

12:15 pm                    Lunch break (box lunches ordered at registration)

1:15 pm                      Legal System under Pressure: Partisanship & elections (1.5 hours)

Hon. Dean S. Lum (ret.)(moderator), Hon. John McKay (former US Attorney for the Western District of Washington), David Burman (Asher Perkins Coie)

2:45 pm                    Break

3 pm                         Judges Under Pressure: Challenging Cases (1 hour)

Hon. William Downing (King County Superior Court, retired) discusses his pressure-packed and historic cases, including Anderson v. King County et. al. and his new book, Challenging Cases (The New Press 2026)

4 pm                          Adjourn