DFLG Staff Portal

This site exists so that nobody at Dellino has to hold the whole firm in their head. The law we practice, the counties we practice in, the tools we've built, and the rules we work by all live in one place, behind one login. If you find yourself about to ask a colleague how something is done here, look here first — that is what it is for.

Two things sit on every single page, and between them they are the entire navigation model. The first is the dark rail down the left. It is the map: Home, Academy, Tools, Library, Policies and Procedures, and then the systems you're in all day anyway — Clio, Gmail, Calendar, Slack, ShareFile. It does not move and it does not change from page to page, which is the point. Wherever you land, including landing cold from a search result, you are one click from every shelf on the site.

The second is the search box, and it is the same box everywhere. It searches the whole site — every page, every heading, and the full text of the source materials underneath the Library. It will put you on the passage, not merely on the page. If you take one habit from this briefing, take that one: search first, browse second.

Four shelves. The Library is the deepest of them, and it is where the law lives. At its center is the firm's Washington Family Law Doctrine — twenty-one Parts running from the foundational framework and the matter lifecycle through to post-decree practice. It is our single source for the black-letter law, and it is deliberately selective: the terrain a practitioner actually meets, rather than everything that could be said. Underneath it we publish the sources themselves, in full and searchable — the WSBA Deskbook volumes one through three, Becker's QuickCites, the state Family Law Handbook, IRS Publication 504. When the Doctrine tells you to go deeper, you do not have to leave the site to do it.

Beside the Doctrine, three things worth knowing by name. Twenty statewide Base Guides, each paired with a Form Anatomy page that walks the real Washington form field by field. Tradecraft, which is craft rather than law — the written-work-product guides, depositions, trial preparation, legal research, and professional responsibility. And the Other Professionals directory: seventy-eight opposing counsel, experts, evaluators and mediators, with our own candid assessments attached. Read the instruction on that page and follow it — speak with the "Ask" attorney before engaging any professional.

Tools are the shelf that answers a question you would otherwise have had to ask someone. Practice profiles for thirty-eight Washington counties, and e-filing and e-service broken out county by county. A protection order wizard that takes eight questions about the matter in front of you and returns the order type, the service regime, and a forms checklist. An SDT wizard that walks the decision tree and computes your notice and return deadlines. A date calculator, the LFLR 10 financial checklist, and the litigation workflow view.

Policies and Procedures is what the firm expects of us — roughly forty pages, from people and culture through timekeeping, billing, and firm AI use. Where a page was extracted from the Employee Handbook, it says so on its face and names the section and the edition, because the signed Handbook governs and the wiki page does not.

The Academy is the fourth shelf. It is the structured training — role by role, module by module — and it has its own briefings; we won't spend your time on it here.

And finally, but most vitally, the discipline that makes the rest of it safe to use. Everything on this site is internal training material and none of it goes to a client. Statutes, rules, and forms change, and several load-bearing ones changed underneath us in the last two years. Every substantive page carries a currency note, and it means what it says: verify the current RCW and rule text, and pull the current form from the courts' own site, before you rely on anything here. This site is where the work starts. It is never where it stops.