Counsel II & Ethics, Wellness, Practice Program Manager

Counsel II & Ethics, Wellness, Practice Program Manager

Washington State Bar Association. Seattle, Washington, United States

Ethics, Wellness, and Practice Program Manager & Counsel II Advancement Department (ADV) – Washington State Bar Association (WSBA)

Salary Range: $99,092 to $99,092 + Washington State Employee Benefits and Retirement Plans

FLSA Status:
Full-time, Exempt

The WSBA's mission is to serve the public and the members of the Bar, to ensure the integrity of the legal profession, and to champion justice.

The Ethics, Wellness, and Practice Manager & Counsel II (EWPMC) leads the Professional Responsibility Program by providing ethics guidance through CLE presentations, articles, and member consultations. The role also oversees the Member Wellness Program and the Practice Management Assistance Program, ensuring these three programs operate cohesively within the Advancement Department. The EWPMC supports daily operations, staffing, and strategic planning in collaboration with program leaders and the Advancement Director.

Additionally, the position maintains national engagement to stay current on legal ethics, wellness, and practice management trends.

• Answering ethics inquiries from Bar members, primarily by telephone, regarding their prospective conduct (calls are primarily received on the Ethics Line).
• Ensure consistent, reliable and timely coverage for the Ethics Line.
• Develop innovative and efficient approaches to address member ethics inquiries.

• Develop and deliver ethics related educational materials and presentations for sponsors of legal educational programing including county bars, affinity bars, WSBA CLE, and other continuing legal education providers within the state and nationally.
• Serve as a resource in writing, research, recruiting and presenting for WSBA-CLE, the Advancement and Communications Departments, the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, the Office of General Counsel, and external groups within the state and nationally.
• Maintaining a comprehensive level of proficiency in all aspects of legal ethics and professionalism by using multiple sources of information, including online legal research tools and other resources.
• Acting as staff liaison to the Committee on Professional Ethics (CPE), includes managing the content of the Bar online ethics opinion data base, and ensuring that recommendations of the CPE are effectively and timely navigated through the approval/adoption system, including preparation of GR 9 materials and attending Board meetings.
• Acting as staff liaison to other internal and external entities as assigned and serving as a member of the Advancement Leadership Team.

• Writing and editing articles and developing information resources addressing lawyer ethics for publication in Washington State Bar News, NW Sidebar, and other law-related publications. This includes responsibility for planning topics for articles and advising, editing, analyzing the content of articles written by others and managing the content of WSBA’s Ethics/Professional Responsibility web page.

• Provide supervision and guidance to the Practice Management Assistance Advisor.
• In coordination with the Advancement Department Director and Practice Management Assistance Advisor develop, implement, and oversee program-wide strategies and policies that further the mission and objectives of the program and WSBA.
• Assure proper operational/administrative support is allocated to the PMA program, serving as a backup to the PMA when necessary.

• Provide supervision and guidance to the Member Wellness Program Manager.
• In coordination with the Advancement Department Director and Member Wellness Program Manager develop, implement, and oversee program-wide strategies and policies that further the mission and objectives of the program and the WSBA.
• Collaboration with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel to ensure efficient and effective operation of…