Opinion

State Ex Rel. Foster v. Washington State Bar Ass'n

  • 23 Wash. 2d 800
  • 162 P.2d 261
  • 160 A.L.R. 1366
  • 1945 Wash. LEXIS 289
Court
Washington Supreme Court
Filed
Oct 5, 1945
Status
Published
Author
Millard
On the bench
Beals, Millard
Cited by
6 cases

“The state bar act ... provides that 7 no person may engage in the practice of law in this state unless and until [they] 8 becom[e] a member of the state bar association.”

How later courts described this case

  • “The state bar act ... provides that 7 no person may engage in the practice of law in this state unless and until [they] 8 becom[e] a member of the state bar association.”
  • “The state bar act ... provides that no person 2 may engage in the practice of law in this state unless and until [they] becom[e] a 3 member of the state bar association.”
  • “The state bar act . . . provides that no person may engage in the practice of law in this state unless and until he becomes a member of the state bar association.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Millard, J.

(dissenting) — Our rules are not entitled to much reverence when we so slightly regard them.

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