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<p class="MsoNormal">All--<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My apologies for this cross-post but this affects every attorney and we really need to act. I personally have
<b><i><u>not</u></i></b> made enough time to deal with the inside issues of the WSBA, but on a basic governance level I think it's insane to simply abolish an entity like the WSBA with so many active obligations and activities. Here is the comment I just sent
to my state rep:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Please OPPOSE HB 1788 abolishing the State Bar. Regardless of whether eliminating the Bar would be a good or bad idea, no long-established and active entity can
be simply abolished without creating a financial and legal catastrophe. The Bar has employees and ongoing employee benefit obligations. It has leases and other ongoing financial commitments. It has assets to preserve, debts it owes. It is always organizing
and conducting Continuing Legal Education courses, and scheduling and committing to events for months into the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If the Bar is to be abolished, there must be an orderly process, perhaps like a dissolution and winding up of a business. A hasty and drastic "vanishing" of the
Bar would subject the State to untold liability on the Bar's ongoing commitments. Please help our Legislature proceed with more deliberation. Thank you for all your work on the public's behalf as our representative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u>A huge Thank you! to Carla Higginson</u></i></b> for making commenting easy by providing the link to make direct comment regarding the legislation, which I'm copying here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/1788">https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill//1788</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Eric C. Nelsen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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