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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">TO ALL</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><b><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></b><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">SHARING COMMISSIONS</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> It is true that RCW 18.85.301 (Sharing commissions) provides that:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">“<i>(1) Except under subsection (4) of this section, it is unlawful for any licensed firm, broker, or managing broker to pay any part of the licensee's commission or other compensation to any person who performs real estate brokerage
services and who is not a licensed firm, real estate broker, or managing broker in any state of the United States or its possessions or any foreign jurisdiction with a real estate regulatory program.</i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(2) Except under subsection (4) of this section, it is unlawful for any licensed real estate firm to pay any part of the firm's commission from brokerage services or other compensation to a real estate broker or managing broker
not licensed to do business for the firm.</span><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(3) Except under subsection (4) of this section, it is unlawful for licensed brokers or managing brokers to pay any part of their commission from brokerage services or other compensation to any person, whether licensed or not,
except through the firm's designated broker.</span><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(4) A commission may be shared with a manufactured housing retailer, licensed under chapter <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.70"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">46.70</span></a> RCW,
on the sale of personal property manufactured housing sold in conjunction with the sale or lease of land.”</span><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">LAWYER EXEMPTION</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">. But, it is also true that
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">RCW 18.85.151 (Exemptions from licensing) provides that:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.25in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“<i>This chapter shall not apply to: . . . . ; (3) An attorney-at-law in the performance of the practice of law; . . . .</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ADVISABLE??
<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">However, I question whether it is advisable for a lawyer, under the guise of “</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">performance of the practice of law”</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">,
attempting to perform the duties and obligations of an experienced and licensed real estate broker “professional”, who has also continually obtained the mandatory annual “clock-hour” education required by the Department of Licensing.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<![if !supportLists]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Also, does the lawyer’s malpractice insurance cover this kind of conduct?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">PETE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Law Office of James C. Middlebrooks<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Pete Middlebrooks (Attorney)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
3050 Belmonte Lane, Everett, WA 98201<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:Pete@jcmiddlebrooks.com"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Pete@jcmiddlebrooks.com</span></a><br>
Pete Tel.: 425-252-2693<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.Middlebrooksrealestatelaw.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Douglas W. Scott<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 19, 2017 6:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Real Property Listserv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBARP] lawyers receiving commissions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It has been over 20 years but as of then an attorney could get a commission for the sale of real estate .<br>
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Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Jun 19, 2017, at 11:47 AM, Roger Hawkes <<a href="mailto:Roger@law-hawks.com">Roger@law-hawks.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To your knowledge are there any judicial rulings or WACS establishing a lawyer’s right to get a selling broker’s commission without a real estate broker’s license? A managing broker is quoting this statute as the reason why escrow can’t
pay a ‘procuring cause’ lawyer the ‘selling broker’s’ commission as listed on the purchase and sale agreement.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">RCW 18.85.301</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Sharing commissions.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">(1) Except under subsection (4) of this section, it is unlawful for any licensed firm, broker, or managing broker
to pay any part of the licensee's commission or other compensation to any person who performs real estate brokerage services and who is not a licensed firm, real estate broker, or managing broker in any state of the United States or its possessions or any
foreign jurisdiction with a real estate regulatory program.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">(2) Except under subsection (4) of this section, it is unlawful for any licensed real estate firm to pay any part
of the firm's commission from brokerage services or other compensation to a real estate broker or managing broker not licensed to do business for the firm.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">(3) Except under subsection (4) of this section, it is unlawful for licensed brokers or managing brokers to pay any
part of their commission from brokerage services or other compensation to any person, whether licensed or not, except through the firm's designated broker.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">(4) A commission may be shared with a manufactured housing retailer, licensed under chapter <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.70"><b><span style="color:#7DAB8A">46.70</span></b></a> RCW,
on the sale of personal property manufactured housing sold in conjunction with the sale or lease of land.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Roger Hawkes, WSBA 5173<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">19909 Ballinger Way NE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shoreline, WA 98155<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.hawkeslawfirm.com/">www.hawkeslawfirm.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">206 367 5000 voice<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">206 367 4005 fax<o:p></o:p></p>
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