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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WSBA Board of Governors to Meet in Yakima, June 7Seattle, Washington, June 5, 2002 —The Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) Board of Governors will hold its next meeting June 7 at the WestCoast Yakima Center Hotel in Yakima. The meeting will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and is open to the press and public.At the meeting, the new WSBA president-elect will be elected. This individual will assume the presidency of the WSBA in September 2003. The Awards Committee will make its recommendations for this year’s recipients of the annual WSBA awards, to be presented in September. Also on the agenda is a report about Law Week 2002; held during the week of April 29, lawyers and judges throughout the state visited classrooms to teach students about various aspects of the law, conduct mock trials, and discuss current legal issues. Representatives of the Council on Public Legal Education (CPLE) will be on hand to discuss the progress of their projects. With the assistance of University of Washington staff and students, the CPLE is developing a gateway legal education Web site that is expected to launch in January 2003. Last year the CPLE received a $25,000 grant to fund the project from the Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation. The council also received a grant from the Washington Judges Foundation to establish 20 new youth courts in Washington during the next two years. WSBA President-elect J. Richard Manning (Seattle) will report on a new partnership between Microsoft Corporation and the American Bar Association (AB A). Microsoft is committing $300,000 over the next three years to assist in underwriting the ABA’s Detained Immigrant and Refugee Pro Bono Representation Initiative to provide volunteer representation to detained immigrants and refugees. The Washington State Bar Association is a private, nonprofit organization authorized by the Washington Supreme Court to license the state’s 26,500 lawyers. The WSBA both regulates lawyers under the authority of the Court and serves its members as a professional association — all without public funding. As a regulatory agency, it administers the bar exam, provides record-keeping and licensing functions, and administers the lawyer discipline program. As a professional association, the WSBA provides continuing legal education for attorneys, in addition to numerous other educational and member service activities. The governance of the WSBA is vested in its 14-person Board of Governors. There are three governors from the seventh congressional district; one from each of the other eight districts; and three at-large members, one of whom represents the Young Lawyers Division. The board meets regularly (every six weeks) at various locations around the state, and its meetings are open to the public. Much of the work of the Bar is carried out through its 28 standing committees; 24 sections; and a Young Lawyers Division, with its many committees.
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