Washington State Bar News

August 2005

Articles

• The Constructive Discharge Claim in Washington and the Employer's Ability to Defend It by Soojin E. Kim 
• The Theory of the Case: Why a Strange Story Is Better Than None at All by Stone Grissom 
• got grammar? by Robert C. Cumbow 

Columns

• President's Corner: Initiative 330 — The Medical Malpractice Initiative by Ron Ward, WSBA President
• Executive's Report: The Student Loan Repayment Assistance Program Guest column from the Washington State Bar Foundation LRAP Advisory Committee
• Editor's Page: Barbaric yawps in Yelm by Lindsay Thompson, Bar News Editor 

Departments

• Letters to the Editor
• Zeitgeist Postcard: Merkel Cell Carcinoma — A Rare Bug by John P. Payseno
• Humor: A Plea for Trampus Borders by Royce Roberts 
• Ethics and the Law: Alone With the Judge: The Heightened Duty of Candor in Ex Parte Proceedings by Kevin Bank 
• Lawyers' Assistance Program 
• In Memoriam
• FYI
• Disciplinary Notices
• Usury Rate: The average coupon equivalent yield from the first auction of 26-week treasury bills in July 2005 was 3.429 percent. The maximum allowable interest rate for June 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 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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