Washington State Bar News

February 2003

Articles                                 

• Lex Feles et Canis - Beyond Ferae Naturae by Adam Karp
• The U.S. Supreme Court and Criminal Law: 2001 Term (Part Two) by Craig Hemmens

Columns

• Editor's Page: Redux All Over Again by Lindsay T. Thompson
• President's Corner: A Time for Introspection: What's Wrong with the Civil Justice System? by  Dick Manning, WSBA President

Departments

• Letters
• Technology: Behind the Technology Curve: Affordable Solutions for Lawyers without lots of Money by Thad M. Guyer 
• Humor: Law, the Musical by Jeff Tolman
• Book Review: The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon Reviewed by Robert C. Cumbow 
• Disciplinary Notices
• Changing Venues - Who's Going Where
• FYI: For Your Information
• Opportunities for Service
  • WSBA Presidential Search 
  • 2003 Notice of Board of Governors Election
• Usury Rate: The average coupon equivalent yield from the first auction of 26-week treasury bills in January 2002 is 1.265 percent. The maximum allowable interest rate for February 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 January 1989 – present appear in the current issue of  the Bar News. Information from January 1987 to date appears at

  www.wsba.org/media/publications/barnews/usury.htm.