A Seattle lawyer has been suspended, in part for mixing his law practice with his duties as president of the local chapter of a civil rights organization.
Jailhouse monitoring of prisoners’ phone conversations has previously ignited controversy from opponents of the practice over claimed violations of attorney-client privilege and inmates’ constitutional rights.
Margie Alumbaugh doesn’t have a law license and she isn’t a student at a traditional law school, but she’s already getting experience as a deputy prosecutor.
Michael Anthony Nelson, 38, is not a lawyer. But, taking advantage of a relatively common name, he allegedly assumed the identity of two other Michael Nelsons who are, in fact,…
Updated: After deliberating less than a day, a federal jury rendered a guilty verdict on all but one of the charges against a disbarred Washington state attorney accused of participating…
When U.S. District Judge John Coughenour handed down a 22-year prison sentence to “millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam, more than a dozen death threats resulted, and he and his family had…
Nearly 13 years ago, Armen Yousoufian made a public records request to King County, Wash., which received a partial response. Three years later, he filed suit to obtain the rest…
The superior court docket in Yakima County, Wash., is under a crushing backlog, with more than 500 civil cases awaiting trial while judges make criminal cases a priority. So judicial…
A photographer in Washington state seemingly has an interesting fair-use argument to make concerning his photograph which, as he describes it, depicted “a woman dancing” on a public artwork in…
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