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WA Rev Code § 2.48.166 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.48 - State Bar Act.|2.48.166 - Admission to or suspension from practice—Noncompliance with support order—Rules.

RCW 2.48.166 Admission to or suspension from practice—Noncompliance with support order—Rules.The Washington state supreme court may provide by rule that no person who has been certified by the department of social and health services as a person who is in noncompliance with a support order or a *residential or visitation order as provided in RCW 74.20A.320 may be admitted to the practice of law in this state, and that any member of the Washington state bar association who has been certified by the department of social and health services as a person who is in noncompliance with a support order or a residential or visitation order as provided in RCW 74.20A.320 shall be immediately suspended from membership. The court's rules may provide for review of an application for admission or reinstatement of membership after the department of social and health services has issued a release stating that the person is in compliance with the order.[ 1997 c 58 § 810.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: 1997 c 58 § 886 requiring a court to order certification of noncompliance with residential provisions of a court-ordered parenting plan was vetoed. Provisions ordering the department of social and health services to certify a responsible parent based on a court order to certify for noncompliance with residential provisions of a parenting plan were vetoed. See RCW 74.20A.320.Intent—1997 c 58: "The legislature intends that the license suspension program established in chapter 74.20A RCW be implemented fairly to ensure that child support obligations are met and that parents comply with residential and visitation orders. However, being mindful of the separations of powers and responsibilities among the branches of government, the legislature strongly encourages the state supreme court to adopt rules providing for suspension and denial of licenses related to the practice of law to those individuals who are in noncompliance with a support order or a residential or visitation order." [ 1997 c 58 § 809.]Short title—Part headings, captions, table of contents not law—Exemptions and waivers from federal law—Conflict with federal requirements—Severability—1997 c 58: See RCW 74.08A.900 through 74.08A.904.Effective dates—Intent—1997 c 58: See notes following RCW 74.20A.320.
WA Rev Code § 2.48.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.48 - State Bar Act.|2.48.170 - Only active members may practice law.

RCW 2.48.170 Only active members may practice law.No person shall practice law in this state subsequent to the first meeting of the state bar unless he or she shall be an active member thereof as hereinbefore defined: PROVIDED, That a member of the bar in good standing in any other state or jurisdiction shall be entitled to appear in the courts of this state under such rules as the board of governors may prescribe.[ 2011 c 336 § 67; 1933 c 94 § 13; RRS § 138-13.]NOTES:Rules of court: Admission—APR 5.
WA Rev Code § 2.48.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.48 - State Bar Act.|2.48.190 - Qualifications on admission to practice.

RCW 2.48.190 Qualifications on admission to practice.No person shall be permitted to practice as an attorney or counselor at law or to do work of a legal nature for compensation, or to represent himself or herself as an attorney or counselor at law or qualified to do work of a legal nature, unless he or she is a citizen of the United States and a bona fide resident of this state and has been admitted to practice law in this state: PROVIDED, That any person may appear and conduct his or her own case in any action or proceeding brought by or against him or her, or may appear in his or her own behalf in the small claims department of the district court: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That an attorney of another state may appear as counselor in a court of this state without admission, upon satisfying the court that his or her state grants the same right to attorneys of this state.[ 1987 c 202 § 107; 1921 c 126 § 4; RRS § 139-4. Prior: 1919 c 100 § 1; 1917 c 115 § 1.]NOTES:Rules of court: Admission—APR 5.Reviser's note: Last proviso, see later enactment, RCW 2.48.170.Intent—1987 c 202: See note following RCW 2.04.190.
WA Rev Code § 2.48.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.48 - State Bar Act.|2.48.200 - Restrictions on practice by certain officers.

RCW 2.48.200 Restrictions on practice by certain officers.No person shall practice law who holds a commission as judge in any court of record, or as sheriff or coroner; nor shall the clerk of the supreme court, the court of appeals, or of the superior court or any deputy thereof practice in the court of which he or she is clerk or deputy clerk: PROVIDED, It shall be unlawful for a deputy prosecuting attorney, or for the employee, partner, or agent of a prosecuting attorney, or for an attorney occupying offices with a prosecuting attorney, to appear for an adverse interest in any proceeding in which a prosecuting attorney is appearing, or to appear in any suit, action or proceeding in which a prosecuting attorney is prohibited by law from appearing, but nothing herein shall prohibit a prosecuting attorney or a deputy prosecuting attorney from appearing in any action or proceeding for an interest divergent from that represented in the same action or proceeding by another attorney or special attorney in or for the same office, so long as such appearances are pursuant to the duties of prosecuting attorneys as set out in RCW 36.27.020 and such appearances are consistent with the code of professional responsibility or other code of ethics adopted by the Washington state supreme court, but nothing herein shall preclude a judge or justice of a court of this state from finishing any business undertaken in a court of the United States prior to him or her becoming a judge or justice.[ 1992 c 225 § 1; 1975 1st ex.s. c 19 § 3; 1971 c 81 § 13; 1921 c 126 § 5; RRS § 139-5.]NOTES:Rules of court: Judicial ethics—CJC.Administrator for the courts, assistant not to practice law: RCW 2.56.020.Attorney general, deputies, assistants—Private practice of law prohibited: RCW 43.10.115, 43.10.120, 43.10.125; but see RCW 43.10.130.Clerk not to practice law: RCW 2.32.090.Coroner not to practice law: RCW 36.24.170.Judges may not practice law: State Constitution Art. 4 § 19 and RCW 2.06.090, 35.20.170; but see RCW 2.28.040.Prosecuting and deputy prosecuting attorneys—Private practice prohibited in certain counties: RCW 36.27.060.Registrar, deputy registrar of titles not to practice law: RCW 65.12.050.Sheriff not to practice law: RCW 36.28.110.
WA Rev Code § 2.48.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.48 - State Bar Act.|2.48.210 - Oath on admission.

RCW 2.48.210 Oath on admission.Every person before being admitted to practice law in this state shall take and subscribe the following oath:I do solemnly swear:I am a citizen of the United States and owe my allegiance thereto;I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of Washington;I will maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers;I will not counsel or maintain any suit or proceeding which shall appear to me to be unjust, nor any defense except such as I believe to be honestly debatable under the law of the land, unless it be in defense of a person charged with a public offense; I will employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to me such means only as are consistent with truth and honor, and will never seek to mislead the judge or jury by any artifice or false statement of fact or law;I will maintain the confidence and preserve inviolate the secrets of my client, and will accept no compensation in connection with his or her business except from him or her or with his or her knowledge and approval;I will abstain from all offensive personality, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which I am charged;I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay any person's cause for lucre or malice. So help me God.[ 2013 c 23 § 1; 1921 c 126 § 12; RRS § 139-12. Prior: 1917 c 115 § 14.]NOTES:Rules of court: Admission—APR 5(c) and (d).
WA Rev Code § 2.48.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.48 - State Bar Act.|2.48.220 - Grounds of disbarment or suspension.

RCW 2.48.220 Grounds of disbarment or suspension.An attorney or counselor may be disbarred or suspended for any of the following causes arising after his or her admission to practice:(1) His or her conviction of a felony or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, in which case the record of conviction shall be conclusive evidence.(2) Willful disobedience or violation of an order of the court requiring him or her to do or forbear an act connected with, or in the course of, his or her profession, which he or she ought in good faith to do or forbear.(3) Violation of his or her oath as an attorney, or of his or her duties as an attorney and counselor.(4) Corruptly or willfully, and without authority, appearing as attorney for a party to an action or proceeding.(5) Lending his or her name to be used as attorney and counselor by another person who is not an attorney and counselor.(6) For the commission of any act involving moral turpitude, dishonesty, or corruption, whether the same be committed in the course of his or her relations as an attorney or counselor at law, or otherwise, and whether the same constitute a felony or misdemeanor or not; and if the act constitute a felony or misdemeanor, conviction thereof in a criminal proceeding shall not be a condition precedent to disbarment or suspension from practice therefor.(7) Misrepresentation or concealment of a material fact made in his or her application for admission or in support thereof.(8) Disbarment by a foreign court of competent jurisdiction.(9) Practicing law with or in cooperation with a disbarred or suspended attorney, or maintaining an office for the practice of law in a room or office occupied or used in whole or in part by a disbarred or suspended attorney, or permitting a disbarred or suspended attorney to use his or her name for the practice of law, or practicing law for or on behalf of a disbarred or suspended attorney, or practicing law under any arrangement or understanding for division of fees or compensation of any kind with a disbarred or suspended attorney or with any person not a licensed attorney.(10) Gross incompetency in the practice of the profession.(11) Violation of the ethics of the profession.[ 2011 c 336 § 68; 1921 c 126 § 14; 1909 c 139 § 7; RRS § 139-14.]NOTES:Rules of court: RLD 1.1.
WA Rev Code § 2.48.230 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.48 - State Bar Act.|2.48.230 - Code of ethics.

RCW 2.48.230 Code of ethics.The code of ethics of the American Bar Association shall be the standard of ethics for the members of the bar of this state.[ 1921 c 126 § 15; RRS § 139-15. Prior: 1917 c 115 § 20.]NOTES:Rules of court: See Code of Professional Responsibility, also Code of Judicial Conduct.Reviser's note: RCW 2.48.190, 2.48.200, 2.48.210, 2.48.220, and 2.48.230 are the only sections of the earlier act relating to the admission, regulation, disbarment, etc., of attorneys which are thought not to be embraced within the general repeal contained in the state bar act of 1933.
WA Rev Code § 2.50.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.010 - Legal aid defined.

RCW 2.50.010 Legal aid defined.Legal aid is the rendition, without compensation, of professional services by an active member of the Washington State Bar Association to or for any indigent person unable to pay a reasonable attorney's fee determined in accordance with the established code of legal ethics.[ 1939 c 93 § 1; RRS § 10007-201. Formerly RCW 74.36.010.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.020 - Public interest.

RCW 2.50.020 Public interest.The promotion of organized legal aid is hereby declared to be in the public interest.[ 1939 c 93 § 2; RRS § 10007-202. Formerly RCW 74.36.020.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.040 - Declaration of necessity by board of county commissioners.

RCW 2.50.040 Declaration of necessity by board of county commissioners.The board of county commissioners (hereinafter called the county board) is empowered to find by resolution the existence of a necessity in such county for organized legal aid. Such resolution shall specify the amount of county funds thereby to be allocated for and expended in the operation of a legal aid bureau during the period of the fiscal year or the remainder thereof. Within ten days after the passage of such a resolution, the commissioners shall cause a certified copy to be transmitted to the board of governors of the Washington State Bar Association (hereinafter called the bar board).[ 1939 c 93 § 4; RRS § 10007-204. Formerly RCW 74.36.040.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.050 - Legal aid bureau defined.

RCW 2.50.050 Legal aid bureau defined.A legal aid bureau (hereinafter called the bureau), is an agency for the rendition of organized legal aid to indigent persons resident in the county, consisting of one director, who shall be an attorney resident in the county, and who shall be in good standing and active membership in the Washington State Bar Association, together with such professional and other personnel, such office facilities, and other equipment, as may be determined by the bar board and be financed by the county board.[ 1939 c 93 § 5; RRS § 10007-205. Formerly RCW 74.36.050.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.060 - Board of governors—Authority.

RCW 2.50.060 Board of governors—Authority.Upon receipt of a certified copy of such resolution the bar board is empowered and, within sixty days thereafter, is obligated to create and continue a legal aid bureau as soon and as long as the necessary funds so allocated are made available by the county board, all expenditures for the bureau to be limited to county funds so supplied, except only as hereinafter authorized. The bar board is vested with the ultimate power to control by its rules and regulations such bureau, the immediate supervision of which in actual operation shall be by the bar board itself or by a committee of its selection.[ 1939 c 93 § 6; RRS § 10007-206. Formerly RCW 74.36.060.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.070 - Legal aid county committee created.

RCW 2.50.070 Legal aid county committee created.The legal aid county committee (hereinafter called the committee), if created and continued by resolution of the bar board, shall consist of three members chosen by the bar board as follows: A member of the bar board, who shall be chair, a judge of the superior court of the county, and an active member of the Washington state bar association, resident in the county.[ 2011 c 336 § 69; 1939 c 93 § 7; RRS § 10007-207. Formerly RCW 74.36.070.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.080 - Supervision.

RCW 2.50.080 Supervision.Among the powers to supervise the actual operation of any such bureau, which shall be exercised either by the bar board itself or in its discretion by the committee, are the following:(1) To appoint and remove at will the director and to fix the amount of his or her salary not in excess of two hundred dollars per month;(2) To engage and discharge all other employees of the bureau and to fix their salaries or remuneration;(3) To assist the director in supplying the free services of attorneys for the bureau;(4) To cooperate with the dean of any law school now or hereafter established within this state respecting the participation of law students in the rendition of services by the bureau under the guidance of the director—however, by this provision, no law student shall be deemed authorized to represent as an attorney in a court of record any legal aid client;(5) To require of the director periodically written statements of account and written reports upon any and all subjects within the operation of the bureau;(6) To prescribe rules and regulations, always subject to the bar board, for determination of the indigent persons who are entitled to legal aid, for determination of the kinds of legal problems and cases subject to legal aid, and for determination of all operative legal aid policies not inconsistent with this chapter;(7) To advise the county board, for its budget upon its written request, as to the estimated amount of county funds reasonably required to effectively operate the bureau for the ensuing fiscal year;(8) To receive county funds allocated by the county board for the bureau, and to render an account thereof at the times and in the manner reasonably required by the county board;(9) To disburse such county funds, after receipt thereof, solely for the purposes contemplated by this chapter.[ 2011 c 336 § 70; 1939 c 93 § 8; RRS § 10007-208. Formerly RCW 74.36.080.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.090 - Registration fees and private funds.

RCW 2.50.090 Registration fees and private funds.For the purpose of promoting organized legal aid, the bar board is empowered to receive and disburse, at its discretion, a nominal registration fee (not in excess of fifty cents), which it may require of legal aid applicants, and also donations in any sum of private funds.[ 1939 c 93 § 9; RRS § 10007-209. Formerly RCW 74.36.090.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.100 - Limitation of legal aid.

RCW 2.50.100 Limitation of legal aid.No legal aid shall be rendered by or through any bureau as to any matter which, in the opinion of the director or the committee is not a proper subject of legal aid. No legal aid shall be given concerning matters relating to claims or litigation commonly handled on a contingent fee basis, nor to the defense of criminal charges in court.[ 1939 c 93 § 10; RRS § 10007-210. Formerly RCW 74.36.100.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.110 - Attorneys' fees.

RCW 2.50.110 Attorneys' fees.No attorney's fee shall be charged to or received from any legal aid client as to any legal aid matter handled by or through the bureau. All attorneys' fees and court costs collected from any third party by the bureau in the name of any legal aid client shall become a part of the bureau's operation funds.[ 1939 c 93 § 11; RRS § 10007-211. Formerly RCW 74.36.110.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.120 - County funds.

RCW 2.50.120 County funds.The county board in its discretion shall allocate funds for the purposes of the bureau from county funds available for public assistance and relief received from the levy of three mills as provided in section 17, chapter 180, Laws of 1937.[ 1939 c 93 § 12; RRS § 10007-212. Formerly RCW 74.36.120.]NOTES:Reviser's note: 1937 c 180 § 17 was repealed by 1939 c 216 § 35.
WA Rev Code § 2.50.125 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.125 - Cities authorized to appropriate funds.

RCW 2.50.125 Cities authorized to appropriate funds.A city of any class or any code city may appropriate funds in any amount for the purposes of this chapter.[ 1974 ex.s. c 5 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.130 - Revocation of declaration of necessity.

RCW 2.50.130 Revocation of declaration of necessity.The county board is empowered to find by resolution the nonexistence of a necessity in such county for organized legal aid. Within ten days after the passage of such a resolution the county board shall cause a certified copy to be transmitted to the bar board. Upon receipt of a certified copy of such resolution the bar board is empowered and, within sixty days thereafter, is obligated to discontinue the legal aid bureau—unless it is subsequently maintained in the discretion of the bar board and financed by funds other than county funds. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a county board from adopting successive resolutions declaring the existence or nonexistence of a necessity for organized legal aid, but no bureau actually created as a result of such a resolution shall be discontinued by a resolution of revocation within sixty days thereafter.[ 1939 c 93 § 13; RRS § 10007-213. Formerly RCW 74.36.130.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.140 - Washington State Bar Association not restricted.

RCW 2.50.140 Washington State Bar Association not restricted.No county funds shall be expended for legal aid except in accordance with this chapter, but nothing in this chapter shall limit the powers of the Washington State Bar Association, or its board of governors, to promote or render legal aid independent of county financial support.[ 1939 c 93 § 14; RRS § 10007-214. Formerly RCW 74.36.140.]
WA Rev Code § 2.50.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.150 - Certain other acts not applicable.

RCW 2.50.150 Certain other acts not applicable.The provisions of section 6 of chapter 180 of the Laws of 1937 shall not be applicable to a bureau or a committee as authorized by this chapter, or to the bar board or the Washington State Bar Association.[ 1939 c 93 § 15; RRS § 10007-215. Formerly RCW 74.36.150.]NOTES:Reviser's note: 1937 c 180 § 6 was repealed by 1939 c 216 § 35.
WA Rev Code § 2.50.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.50 - Legal Aid.|2.50.160 - Chapter not exclusive—Counties authorized to provide legal aid.

RCW 2.50.160 Chapter not exclusive—Counties authorized to provide legal aid.The provisions of this chapter are not exclusive. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as placing a limitation on the establishment of alternative methods or systems for providing legal aid. Counties are hereby authorized to expend county funds for the establishment of such methods or systems of providing legal aid as shall be deemed in the public interest by the county legislative body.[ 1972 ex.s. c 109 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 2.53.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.53 - Civil Legal Aid.|2.53.005 - Findings.

RCW 2.53.005 Findings.The legislature finds that the provision of civil legal aid services to indigent persons is an important component of the state's responsibility to provide for the proper and effective administration of civil and criminal justice. The legislature further finds that state-funded legal aid services should be administered by an independent office of civil legal aid located within the judicial branch and subject to formal continuing oversight that includes bipartisan legislative representation.[ 2005 c 105 § 1.]