Meet the 2026-2027 Washington State Bar Association president.
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Meet Your 2026-2027 Board of Governors
Photos and bios for the 2026-2027 WSBA Board of Governors.
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Back to School
As part of the WSBA’s Rule of Law Ambassadors Program and Washington courts’ Lawyers in the Classroom program, more than 350 legal professionals signed up to connect with and visit a classroom on or around Sept. 17, with visits stretching from Spokane to Camano Island, to teach lessons on the Constitution and share their career stories with curious students.
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The Case You’ve Already Won (In Your Head)
Newly published research concludes that the very process of reaching a decision can produce confidence that is not warranted by the information. The phenomenon is called predecisional information distortion.
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‘The Hard and Wonderful Stuff of Being Human’
A conversation with author and lawyer Hillary Behrman, whose short story collection Lake Effect won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction.
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Implementation of Public Defender Standards Requires Full Professional Staff Support for Attorneys
Increased funding is also needed to hire sufficient support staff, including investigators, social workers, interpreters, and other positions.
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