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On January 19, 1888, a group of these lawyers met in the Supreme Court chambers to form the Washington Bar Association. This was a voluntary organization and did not include all lawyers admitted to practice; originally it consisted of 35 lawyers, at a cost of $5 a year. In 1890, the name changed to Washington State Bar Association.
This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Washington.It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are men who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
From 1998 to 2004, he served as a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.. On October 14, 2003, Martinez was nominated by President George W. Bush to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington established by 104 Stat. 5089 following the appointment of Barbara Jacobs Rothstein as ...
Leesa Manion: [64] First (Asian American) female elected to serve as King County Prosecuting Attorney (2022) Leila Robinson Sawtelle (1882): [65] First female lawyer in Seattle, Washington (King County, Washington, 1884) Bella Weretnikow Rosenbaum (1901): [2] [3] [4] First Jewish American female lawyer in Seattle, Washington [King County ...
Other rules vary as well. For example, Virginia does not allow the reader to be gainfully employed by the tutoring lawyer, while Washington requires just that. In California the requirements of the state bar association for reading law are set forth in Rule 4.29, Study in a law office or judge's chambers. [9]
Nicholas William Brown (born April 2, 1977) [1] is an American lawyer serving as the 19th attorney general of Washington since 2025. He served as United States attorney for the Western District of Washington from October 2021 to June 21, 2023, and was elected the Attorney General for Washington in 2024. Brown is the first African American to ...
The Washington State Bar Association has approved far lower case limits for public defenders in an effort to stop them from quitting, to help with recruiting and to make sure they have enough time ...
He also served as the president of the Washington State Bar Association in 2007. [3] Bastian was selected as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2007, and chaired the Equal Justice Coalition from 2010 to 2013. [4] Over the course of his career Bastian tried hundreds of cases before juries and judges. [5] [6]