FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   
August 8, 2007      

Contact: Stephanie Perry
Communications Specialist/Website Editor
206-733-5932; stephaniep@wsba.org

WSBA Governor Douglas C. Lawrence Named WSBA Treasurer

Seattle, Washington, August 8, 2007 — The Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) Board of Governors announced that Seattle attorney Douglas C. Lawrence, governor for the 8th Congressional District, was elected WSBA treasurer, effective October 1, 2007. As treasurer, he will serve as chair of the WSBA Budget and Audit Committee. The election took place during the Board of Governors meeting held July 27-28 in Quincy, Washington.

Lawrence is a shareholder with the Seattle law firm of Stokes Lawrence, P.S., where he focuses on estate planning and probate matters. A graduate of Seattle University School of Law, he is a former adjunct professor of law there, and has also taught estate planning at the University of Washington School of Law.

Lawrence was actively involved in the drafting and passage of trust and estate legislation in Washington state, including the Trust Act of 1984 and the 1999 Trust and Estate Dispute Resolution Act (TEDRA). In 1999, he received the WSBA Award of Merit for his work on TEDRA. Lawrence is past chair of the WSBA Real Property, Probate and Trust Section; a former executive committee member of the Estate Planning Council of Seattle; and a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. The author of many articles on estate planning and probate-related matters, Mr. Lawrence is a frequent and sought-after lecturer on those subjects.

About the Washington State Bar Association
The WSBA is part of the judicial branch, exercising a governmental function authorized by the Washington State Supreme Court to license the state’s 30,600 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, the WSBA administers the bar admission process, including the bar exam; provides record-keeping and licensing functions; and administers the lawyer-discipline system. 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 2006-2007 president is Ellen Conedera Dial, of Seattle. The 2006-2007 president-elect is Stanley A. Bastian, of Wenatchee, and the immediate past-president is S. Brooke Taylor, of Port Angeles. 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 23 standing committees; 26 sections; and a Young Lawyers Division, with its many committees.

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