CLE Seminar Speaker

Robert Welden

Robert Welden began his work for the WSBA as a staff attorney from 1981 to 1988, and in 1988 he became the Bar's general counsel.

Since 2002 he has been administrator of the Washington Practice of Law Board, and from 1998 to 2001 was vice president of the NCPO. He has been chair of the ABA Advisory Commission on Lawyers' Funds for Client Protection since 1999, and was a member of the ABA Access to Legal Services Committee and the ABA Task Force on the Model Definition of the Practice of Law.

In 2003 he was appointed chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Client Protection for 2003-2004.

Prior to coming to the WSBA, he was in private practice with Smith, Welden, Kaplan, Young and Withey, and staff attorney for Seattle Indian Center Legal Services and the Seattle-King County Public Defender's Office.

Welden earned his J.D. in 1970 from the University of Washington, and is licensed to practice law in Washington, the United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.