Rainmakers bring in clients. But nobody shares the secret sauce about how to become a rainmaker. The common advice includes: “Do a good job for your clients, practice with civility to opposing counsel, and referrals will follow.”

In August 2023, Education Coordinator Emily Lake and Member Services Director Bridget Schuster partnered up to launch the KCBA member bookclub. The bookclub aims to bring the legal community together on issues of diversity and equity; to build community and friendships among our members and staff; and to expose our broader community to books it might otherwise have missed.

What a great way to start the day! Thanks to everyone who turned out bright and early at the Westin on May 8. Your participation made this a hugely successful event.

KCBA has been planning for May since … LAST May! On May 11, 2023, we attended the Snohomish County Law Day event, which has been an institution in Lynnwood for 35 years.

On April 25th, the King County Bar Association hosted a swearing-in ceremony with 41 new attorneys participating. 

The required time period for accepting nominations having concluded, the King County Bar Association New Lawyers Division (NLD) Board will vote on the following slate of candidates to fill vacancies on the NLD Board.

Given the recent tightening in the commercial credit market, it is not surprising that we are seeing more companies and key advisors, including legal, reaching out for assistance in raising additional debt to hit growth targets. 

Clients that lose on appeal naturally wonder if there is a way to ask the appellate court to change its mind. Enter RAP 12.4, which allows parties to file motions for reconsideration based on “points of law or fact . . . the court has overlooked or misapprehended.”1 

Just about a year ago, in news that made me very sad at the time, Thomson Reuters acquired the spunky, upstart legal research company Casetext. I have been a big fan of Casetext since their inception. 

For 50 years, Neighborhood Legal Clinics have provided free limited legal advice and consultation on civil legal matters to the King County community.