Washington State Bar News

April 2003

Articles

• Slicing the Onion: Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct and Court Rules Make It Easier for Private and Nonprofit Legal Practitioners to Provide "Unbundled" Legal Services by Kim Prochnau
• If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Running Legal Services? A Challenge to Its Critics by Lindsay Thompson  
• The Tar Pit: Anatomy of a Parking Ticket (with Deep Appreciation for the Works of Franz Kafka) by James Goche

Columns

• Editor's Page: Sincerely Yours by Lindsay T. Thompson
• Executive's Report: Scenario-building by Jan Michels, WSBA Executive Director

Departments

• Letters
• The Board's Work - News from the Board of Governors
• Lawyer Services: The Meaning of a Match: An Update on the WSBA's Lawyer-to-Lawyer Program by Sam Elder (with Peter Roberts)
• Around the State
• Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection
• FYI: For Your Information
• Opportunities for Service
  • WSBA Presidential Search
  • WYLD President-Elect Elections
  • WYLD Trustee Elections
  • Commission on Judicial Conduct
  • ABA House of Delegates
• Usury Rate: The average coupon equivalent yield from the first auction of 26-week treasury bills in March 2003 is 1.196 percent. The maximum allowable interest rate for April is therefore 12 percent. Compilations of the average coupon equivalent yields from past auctions of 26-week treasury bills and past maximum interest rates for June 1988-June 1999 appear on page 53 of the June 1999 Bar News. Information from January 1987 to date is available online.  

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