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Taming the Skies: What’s on the Itinerary for Service Animals and Airlines

Jonathan Ko dives into the USDOT’s recently proposed changes to regulations for service animals on commercial flights. Spoiler: pigs actually wouldn’t fly.

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WSBA Pro Bono Awards: Heather Kirkwood

WSBA recently awarded two top pro bono reporters: Benjamin Flick and Heather Kirkwood. In this blog, we look at how Kirkwood reported a full-time job’s worth of pro bono.

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Legislative Check-in: A WSBA Update of the 2020 Session

The 2020 legislative session is now past the halfway mark. As we move closer to the expected March 12 session end date, here’s an update on the WSBA’s legislative priorities: As predicted, after HB 1788 was pulled for a potential floor vote in the House, the bill failed to receive a vote by the Feb. […]

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State Supreme Court Revisits Elected Prosecutor Conflicts

Ethics Guru Mark Fucile examines a recent Supreme Court ruling that an elected prosecutor’s entire office is disqualified to litigate in cases the prosecutor tried prior to election.

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Lem Howell’s Long, Hard Fight in the Latest NWLawyer

What makes a legacy? We all want to leave an impact on this world, but the “how” can be a struggle. How to find a cause, how to develop a skillset, how to create change. When Seattle attorney Lembhard “Lem” Howell took a case in 1996 that had him pushing back against the police version […]

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Tales from Uganda: Working With Those Who Protect LGBT Human Rights

Timothy MB Farrell, counsel to MBI Health Services, LLC, shares his pro bono experience protecting women and girls, LGBT people, sex workers, and political activists in Uganda.

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Legislative Disclosure: Impacts and Implications of AP v. Washington Legislature

For years, agencies calling for sensible Public Records Act reform have remarked that change would not come until the state’s lawmakers were also subject to the PRA. That day finally arrived on Dec. 19, 2019, when the Washington Supreme Court issued its opinion in Associated Press et al. v. Washington State Legislature, et al.

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The Best Depictions of Lawyers in Movies and TV

Few jobs are featured more prominently on big and small screens than that of the lawyer. So we reached out to WSBA members on Facebook to learn about the greatest fictional lawyerings.

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Legislative Update re: HB 1788

WSBA members may have seen that HB 1788 was pulled from the Rules Committee and placed on third reading, which means that it will receive a floor vote in the House in the next several days.

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Idaho Supreme Court Allows Fee Disgorgement for Breach of Fiduciary Duty

In a case of first impression, the Idaho Supreme Court recently held that fee disgorgement is available as a remedy against a lawyer for breach of fiduciary duty even if there are no resulting damages.

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Why Judges are Stressed: Key Revelations from a National Survey

Judges in the U.S. are physically and mentally exhausted, and often traumatized by their experiences on the bench; this according to the “National Judicial Stress and Resilience Survey,” a landmark study.

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WSBA’s Powerful Communities Project: Training and Tools

The Powerful Communities series features: Family Law CASA of King County, Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program, Seattle Clemency Project, and Thurston County Volunteer Legal Services.

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WSBA’s Powerful Communities Project: Legal Clinics

Learn about the legal clinics that arose from Powerful Communities.

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WSBA’s Powerful Communities Project: Community Events

Learn how Powerful Communities are making a difference near you.

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Distribution of Power: A Look at WSBA’s Powerful Communities Project

The Powerful Communities Project is one of the more recent manifestations of the WSBA mission “to serve the public and the members of the Bar, to ensure the integrity of the legal profession, and to champion justice.”

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A Conversation with the New Chief Justice

We chat with Washington’s new Chief Justice Debra Stephens to better understand what direction she might take the court.