Law students and supervising attorneys, do you know your way around the APR 9 changes? Most attorneys and law students are aware of Admission to Practice Rule (APR) 9 (colloquially referred to as Rule 9), authorizing law students with a minimum amount of their J.D. completed to practice law under the supervision of a qualified […]
Read More…Learn how the Affordable Care Act will affect you and your practice in this ongoing series from LOMAP. Read other posts from our Navigating the Affordable Care Act series. Last week we determined that most solo and small firms are probably small employers. This week we speak to the solo attorney. How does the ACA affect you […]
Read More…Share this info with your client early on to avoid damage to the your client relationship and communications. In the Sunday section of the Tacoma News Tribune, there is a regular feature called “10 Things ________ Won’t Tell You.” It didn’t take me long to come up with 10 things that we lawyers should tell […]
Read More…Small business owners, are you ready for the changes brought on by the ACA? Read other posts from our Navigating the Affordable Care Act series. Small business owners, are you ready for the changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? If you are, well done! If not, do not despair. The WSBA’s Law Office Management […]
Read More…New attorney Katie Ludwick reflects on unemployment and job hunting and offers pointers. I probably shouldn’t write this. As a fresh law school graduate, currently awaiting receipt of a Washington State Bar Card that will proudly boast my Bar number, I should probably be redirecting myself towards positive thoughts and productivity — or, at the […]
Read More…Learn how about the ACA’s strides in women’s healthcare in this ongoing series from LOMAP. Read other posts from our Navigating the Affordable Care Act series. Women made great strides in equal treatment under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), though it seems this is one of the best-kept secrets about the health care law. A recent […]
Read More…Winter is coming! Here are 3 coats that will fit nicely over a suit jacket. I wear a suit all day, every day. My closet is packed with so many suits that I hardly have room for much else, especially not my collection of unopened Coke Zero cans depicting images from the 2010 Winter Olympics […]
Read More…Learn how the Affordable Care Act will affect you and your practice in this ongoing series from LOMAP. The health insurance landscape continues to change significantly with each implementation phase of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and members have started asking us about how it affects them. In response, the WSBA’s Law Office Management Assistance […]
Read More…Read attorney Autumn Johnson’s three takeways from her interview with appellate Judge Maxa. Recently, I had the opportunity to interview newly appointed Court of Appeals, Division II, Judge Bradley Maxa. The trial lawyers association, Washington State Association for Justice (formerly WSTLA) asked me to write a profile of Judge Maxa for their publication Trial News. […]
Read More…Are your citations up to snuff? Do you know how the Bluebook and WA style sheet differ? Following up on Michael Heatherly’s excellent five-step approach to better writing published last week, I wanted to focus on another common problem: citation errors. Washington courts generally follow the 19th edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of […]
Read More…Should law school be two years? Patient Name: Law School (a.k.a. United States Legal Education) DOB: Circa 1784 Subjective Patient “Law School” arrived at the emergency room complaining of a financially bloated, gangrenous third-year appendage that has grown weak from lack of use and failure to adapt to changing circumstances. President Obama, offspring of and […]
Read More…What tips have you picked up from just observing in court? One lawyer shares what she learned. Recently, I spent two days in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where I observed seven oral arguments. It was interesting to see each counsel’s style and preparation level and the justices’ reactions to their arguments. Here are […]
Read More…A look at what Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure can tell us about modern day legal practice. Measure for Measure is often categorized as one of William Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” thanks to its mixture of comedic and tragic elements and the unsatisfactorily artificial resolution to the conflict presented. Perhaps it is only natural, then, that in reading […]
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“Please raise your right hand to take the oath” is a phrase that has become commonplace in the modern courtroom and is required of all witnesses before they take the stand to offer testimony at trial. However, many attorneys may not be aware of the purpose or history of the practice of “raising your right […]
Read More…Dan Orphadt offers advice to the 727 candidates who passed the July bar exam: be proud and celebrate. We’ve all had about two weeks to digest that little word “pass” next to our UBE score. To some over-worriers, it may have come as a surprise — a surprise we double-checked on the public list on […]
Read More…Learn more about social purpose corporations, and what some of the first entities to hold this designation are doing. In June 2012, Washington’s Social Purpose statute went into effect. A Social Purpose Corporation (SPC) is organized to benefit one of the following: (1) employees, suppliers, or customers; (2) the local, state, national, or world community; […]
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