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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Eric, you are always a great pragmatist and for some unknown reason I always find myself agreeing with you………..and I still do.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">My opposition post today took a less legal approach than yours:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="624" height="108" style="width:6.5in;height:1.125in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D4DDAE.584FF4B0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Sincerely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Tom</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Thomas J. Westbrook</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Attorney at Law</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><img width="304" height="106" style="width:3.1666in;height:1.1in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D4DDAE.584FF4B0" alt="whiteRKCS_newlogo50_email_sig"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Rodgers, Kee Card & Strophy, P.S.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">324 West Bay Drive NW, Suite 201</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Olympia, Washington 98502</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Phone: 360-352-8311</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Facsimile: 360-352-8501</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Email: </span><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:tjw@buddbaylaw.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563c1">tjw@buddbaylaw.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Skype: thomas.westbrook</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.buddbaylaw.com/" target="_BLANK????"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563c1">www.buddbaylaw.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The information contained in this email and attachment(s) are for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain private, privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the addressee, you are strictly prohibited from reading, photocopying, distributing or otherwise using this email or its contents in any way. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone at 360-352-8311 or by e-mail to </span><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:shannon@buddbaylaw.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563c1">shannon@buddbaylaw.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">, and destroy the original message from your electronic files.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a> <<a href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric Nelsen<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 18, 2019 4:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv (<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>>; WSBA Real Property Listserv (<a href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Easy commenting on HB 1788 abolishing the State Bar</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">All--</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><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:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><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:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/1788">https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill//1788</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sincerely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Eric</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Eric C. Nelsen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">SAYRE LAW OFFICES, PLLC</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">1417 31st Ave South</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Seattle WA 98144-3909</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">phone 206-625-0092</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">fax 206-625-9040</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>