WA Bar News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

BY CHERYLL RUSSELL, JACQUELINE JESKE, AND CHRISTOPHER FOX Washington’s Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act (UFLAA) provides a framework for the use of arbitration in resolving family law disputes in Washington state. The parties may, however, waive some or all of the arbitrator qualifications and criteria.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

. “To enable more precision in search, we added more than 250 new attorney editors to mark up and classify case law in more useful ways for our customers.” At launch time, Westlaw Precision covers 12 years of cases and eight practice areas/topics. What’s Next for Westlaw Precision.

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WA Bar News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

7 CR 37, in turn, addresses sanctions for a broad spectrum of discovery misconduct ranging from incomplete answers to discovery requests to the failure to comply with discovery orders. Despite this conflict, … [the lawyer] … did not advise Angelo of the conflict or withdraw from representing him in the arbitration.

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WA Bar News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition to triggering a range of human emotions, this uncomfortable discovery may also raise a duty to correct under the Rules of Professional Conduct, specifically RPC 3.3(a)(1): a)(1): A lawyer shall not knowingly … fail to correct a false statement of material fact or law previously made to the tribunal by the lawyer[.]

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