Washington State Bar News

February 2006

Articles

• Findings From the University of Washington School of Law Gender Study
  by Deborah Maranville and the University of Washington School of Law Gender Study Committee 
• Structuring Attorneys' Fees: What's All the Fuss?
  by Robert W. Wood 
• Informal Opinion Roundup 2005
  by Chris Sutton

Columns

• President's Corner: Tales From the Taxicab 
  by S. Brooke Taylor
• Editor's Page: . . . a little touch of Harry in the night
  by Lindsay Thompson

Departments

• Letters to the Editor
• Around the State
• Zeitgeist Postcard: Doctors or Lawyers: Who Really Has It Better?
  by Jeff Tolman
• Public Defense Update: Improving Public Defense — Working Together to Fulfill Gideon's Promise
  by Mary Jane Ferguson
• Ethics and the Law: Mom Pays for Son's Dissolution — Now What? Any Ethical Problems?
  by Nancy Bickford Miller
• 2004-2005 Committee and Section Reports
• Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection
• FYI
• The Board's Work 
• Disciplinary Notices
• Usury Rate:
  The average coupon equivalent yield from the first auction of 26-week treasury bills in January 2006 was 4.42 percent. Therefore, the maximum allowable interest rate for February is 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 to 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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