Services To The Public
WSBA promotes justice through a variety of projects:
- Access to Justice programs improves and expands access to the justice system for low and moderate income people.
- The Technology Bill of Rights program promulgates the principle that technology must be implemented in a way that improves the quality of justice for all persons in Washington State both increases opportunities and eliminates barriers to access to and effective utilization of the justice system. http://www.atjtechprinciples.org/
- The Council on Public Legal Education promotes public understanding of the law and civic rights and responsibilities. http://www.wsba.org/ple/
- Law Week organizes lawyers and judges to visit classrooms in their communities during the first week of May. http://www.lawweek.org
- The Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection was established for the purpose of relieving or mitigating a pecuniary loss sustained by any client due to the dishonesty of, or failure to account for money or property entrusted to, any member of the WSBA in connection with the member's practice of law or while acting as a fiduciary in a matter related to the member's practice of law. The Fund is funded by an annual assessment of members of the WSBA by order of the Washington State Supreme Court.
- The Home Foreclosure Legal Aid Project was established in May 2009 to provide Washington residents facing foreclosure with pro bono legal counsel.
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