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Key items of Lee Tinney's experience include:

¨ Mediator or lawyer in hundreds of mediations and settlement conferences in family law over the past 30 years.  

¨ Arbitrator in family law matters for Snohomish County Superior Court for over 25 years. 

¨ Successful private conventional practice of law in Everett for nearly 30 years, 15 of which were exclusively family law; previously commercial, business, real estate and probate/guardianship.

¨ Training and experience as collaborative law practitioner, an alternate form of family law practice based on the same principles involved in mediation. 

¨ Pro tempore (substitute) Snohomish County Superior Court Judge and Court Commissioner and Snohomish County Juvenile Court Judge and Court Commissioner. 

¨ Chair of the Snohomish County Bar Association (SCBA) Family Law Section, 2003-2009; former Trustee of SCBA.  The Attorney of the Year award from the Snohomish County Bar Association, 2004.  Board service on many non-profit organizations, including Luther Child Center (now Compass Health), Cocoon House.   

¨ Frequent instructor for continuing legal education seminars on law topics such as "Residential Relocation under the New Relocation Act," (10/20/03, SCBA); "Meet the Mediators," (5/13/05, SCBA), "Local Rules:  Written, Unwritten, Proposed, Enforced," (8/21/06, SCBA); "New Supreme Court Cases:  Child Support Extrapolation and Meretricious Relationships," (2/26/07, SCBA); "Changes to Parenting Plan Criteria," (6/18/07, SCBA); "Annual Case Law Update," (7/16/07, SCBA); "Practicalities in Family Law With Special Needs Children," (10/15/07, SCBA); "Collection of Family Law Debts, Judgments, and Fees," (6/2/05, WWL), "Ethics:  Reflections and Refractions (9/18/09, SCLS).

¨ Personal experience in long term marriage, parenting three daughters, balancing professional and personal interests.