DFLG Staff Portal

The shared Day-1 / first-week starting point for every new hire — systems, firm values, communication, the confidentiality/PHI baseline, and the AI toolkit. Each role path builds on it.

The new family-law associate 30/60/90 — systems, the Dellino Way, the eleven-phase lifecycle, discovery, and supervised practice through a capstone.

The paralegal 30/60/90 — nine sequential modules resting on The Dellino Way foundation, across Foundation, Supervised, and Independent practice.

Fast-track firm integration for experienced attorneys joining laterally — systems, matter workflow, and the Dellino Way, geared to get into a live caseload quickly rather than teach doctrine.

Firm business and administrative functions — intake and revenue, billing and trust accounting, timekeeping, systems, and internal operations. Intake is live; other subsets rolling out.

The 2L summer program — an interactive week-by-week tracker across orientation, courtroom-to-conference-room, discovery (the Whitmore practicum), and parenting plans, with deliverables and milestones. Weeks 1–4 built; later weeks rolling out.

Training simulations that cut across the paths. Take a matter, make the calls a real file would ask you to make, and walk out with a memorandum recording what you decided and why — including where you think the simulation got it wrong. Two modules built: characterization and discovery proportionality, both New FL Associate.

County practice profiles, local rules, motion deadlines, and deadline calculator for all 37 WA counties.

11-phase family law litigation lifecycle — role allocation by phase across IT, Paralegal, Discovery Team, and Matter Attorney, with matrix and swimlane views.

Filing and service protocols for the seven core DFLG counties — King, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane, Kitsap, Thurston, Clark — portals, fees, proposed-order routing, working copies, and rejection watch-outs. Plus messenger filing.

Structured intake screen for ch. 7.105 protection orders — routes DVPO / SAPO / SPO / AHPO / VAPO, works out the service regime, and builds the PO and WS forms checklist. Copy summary or print a posture memo. Stores nothing.

Client-facing expense intake form. Generates signed PDF and Excel summary.

Decision tree for Subpoenas Duces Tecum — paths, notice periods, deadline calculator, and service instruction sheet. CR 45 / RCW 70.02.

Live deadline reference: +5 business days, +14 and +30 calendar days, and earliest SDT service dates. Pacific Time aware.

King County financial document checklist for hearings involving support or maintenance — conditional sections, progress tracking, and print output.

Generate interrogatories, RFPs, and RFAs from matter context.

Build Asset & Debt (A&D) schedules for dissolution matters.

Statewide-procedure guides, one per matter type — how each kind of family law matter runs (forms, filings, deadlines, the step sequence). The procedural companion to the WA FL Doctrine. Dissolution and Temporary Orders live in draft; the rest planned.

Annotated facsimiles of the court forms themselves — the sections that matter on each and what they do, with every panel linked to the current original. The Base Guides give you the sequence; this shows you the document. DV / Protection Orders and Temporary Orders are annotated; more per matter type as they land.

Practice craft and firm intelligence, organized as a growing set of resources — Practice Tips (searchable tactics distilled from #family, #attorney-mtg-channel, and #attorney-updates) is live today; more elements planned.

The firm's catalog of Claude Skills — what each does, who runs it, and which litigation-workflow phase it serves. The link target behind the FL Litigation Workflow tool's task pills.

The firm's definitive Washington family law reference — foundations, the eleven-phase lifecycle, and every substantive area, in one topic-organized source.

Plain-English field guides for the firm's everyday tools — what an error means, which tool a task belongs in, and the habits that prevent the problem. The Claude guide is live today.

Canonical templates for pleadings, letters, declarations, and agreements.

Reusable language for discovery objections, motion sections, and correspondence.

Clause × variant map of the client fee agreements, plus the machine-readable clause registry — the single source from which base agreements are assembled and regenerated.

The people hub — mission, core values, culture & principles, the Team Member Bill of Rights, workplace conduct, and HR, benefits & administration.

The firm's core platforms and all-staff basics — technology stack, security, ShareFile, Dialpad, and Zoom.

The governing rule (tools draft; you verify; attorney judgment governs), approved tools, and the confidentiality/PHI baseline for AI. Parent for the firm's AI materials.

Facilities and logistics for all four offices — maintenance, parking, building access, mail handling, and letterhead.

Fonts, sizes, colors, and layout for every category of DFLG Word work product — pleading paper, pleading-adjacent drafts, and internal documents & correspondence. The same rules the dflg-style-guide Claude Skill applies when it drafts.

The firm's client-facing communication standard — the 48-business-hour response commitment, channels, the emergency carve-out, and the client's reciprocal role.

The money side of the engagement — Fee & Billing terms and Trust & Evergreen mechanics, abstracted from the client fee agreements.

Billable timekeeping (Clio) and, for Legal Assistants & Paralegals, wage-hour hours-worked reporting — increment reference, Ajax workflow, rates & situations, and month-end checklist.

Court holidays, firm closures, and bonus days for any year — with year navigation, deadline counts, and a printable schedule.

The Friday red/yellow/green check-in on your workload — how it works, the 6 PM deadline, and the automation behind it.