Legal Aid for Washington Fund (LAW Fund) was created in 1991 by three leaders in the Washington State Bar Association; the late Jack Dean of Spokane, Mark Hutcheson of Seattle and Paul Stritmatter of Hoquiam.

We are indebted to the vision and commitment of these and all LAW Fund Board Members to making equal justice a reality in our state. Raising private support to bridge the alarming gap between those who can afford legal representation and those who cannot, LAW Fund has been able to contribute over $7 million to support civil legal aid programs in Washington State since its inception.

In 2004, LAW Fund completed an administrative merger with the Legal Foundation of Washington (The Legal Foundation). The Legal Foundation administers the Interest on Lawyers/ Limited Practice Officers Trust Account (“IOLTA”) distributions to grantees across Washington (to learn more about LFW, go to www.legalfoundation.org ).



The result of the merge means contributions to LAW Fund & the Campaign for Equal Justice will support many more legal aid programs than in the past that include staffed, specialty and volunteer attorney programs throughout the state (click on Benefiting Agencies to see a list of organizations your contribution will benefit). Secondly, by pooling resources, we've created money-saving efficiencies that make funding for statewide legal aid services and go further. Simply put, the merger allows more of your support to be directed to what counts the most: the provision of civil legal aid to people who are facing some of the most difficult of life's circumstances.

LAW Fund is housed together in downtown Seattle with the Legal Foundation and the Equal Justice Coalition (EJC), a non-partisan educational outreach effort comprised of a broad-based coalition of community leaders from all across the state. Learn more about the EJC's work at: www.ejc.org
2008 LAW Fund Board Officers:

J. Richard Manning, President
Law Offices of J. Richard Manning, Seattle
 
Thomas B. Vertetis , Vice President
Gordon Thomas Honeywell, Tacoma
 
John Teutsch, Treasurer
Teutsch Partners, Seattle
 
William F. Etter , Secretary
Etter, McMahon, Lamberson, Clary, Troppmann & Oreskovich PC, Spokane
 
Paula E. Boggs , Immediate Past President
executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, Starbucks Coffee Company, Seattle
 
H. Scott Holte, Endowment for Equal Justice
Mukilteo




LAW Fund Advisory Council:

Douglas Beighle
Madrona Investment Corp., Seattle

Jon Bridge
Co-Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel, Ben Bridge Jewelers, Inc.
 
John Ellis
Chairman, Retired, Puget Sound Energy, Chairman, CEO Seattle Mariners, Seattle
 
William H. Gates, Sr.
Co-Chair, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle
 
Christine Gregoire
Governor, State of Washington, Olympia
 
Roland Hjorth
Dean Emeritus, University of Washington School of Law , Seattle
 
James Vander Stoep
Armstrong, Vander Stoep, Remund & Kelly, Chehalis

2008 LAW Fund Board of Directors:

Richard Byington
Byington Consulting, Kenmore
 
Arthur Chong
Safeco Coporation, Seattle
 
Susan Duffy
Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle
 
Jerry B. Edmonds
Williams Kastner, Seattle
 
Susan D. Fahringer
Perkins Coie, Seattle

Thomas F. Fitzpatrick
Talmadge Law Group, Tukwila

Mick Fleming
Lane Powell, Seattle

Eric C. Frimodt
Inslee, Best, Doezie & Ryder, Bellevue

J. Matthew Geyman
The Phillips Law Group, Seattle
 
David J. Groesbeck
David J. Groesbeck PS, Spokane
 
Faith Ireland
Justice, Washington State Supreme Court (Ret.)

Barry M. Kaplan
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Seattle

William A. Kinsel
Kinsel Law Offices, Seattle
 
Paul S. Kube
Ogden Murphy Wallace, Wenatchee
 
John R. Moffat
Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Everett

Ron Morgan
CKM Mediation, Bellingham
 
Angela M. Niemann
Heller Ehrman, Seattle
 
Jennifer L. O’Connor
Puget Sound Energy, Bellevue

John Powers
Colliers International, Seattle
 
H. Andrew Saller, Jr.
Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara, Tacoma

Jill Haavig Stone
Burgess Fitzer, Tacoma

Fredric C. Tausend
K & L Gates, Seattle

Jennifer A. Wing
Eisenhower Carlson, Tacoma

2008 Endowment for Equal Justice Board:

Hon. Susan Agid
Court of Appeals, State of Washington , Seattle
 
J. David Andrews
Perkins Coie, Seattle
 
Richard Byington
Byington Consulting, Kenmore
 
H. Scott Holte, President
Mukilteo

Donald J. Horowitz
 Seattle
 
Mark Hutcheson
Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle
 
Sally A. Jeffers
Dunham Meyers Jeffers, Seattle

John McKay
Seattle University School of Law, Seattle

William R. Rademaker, Jr.
Bellevue




Laurel Rubin Farm Worker
Justice Project

 J. Matthew Geyman, Committee Chair
Phillips Law Group, Seattle

Cristóbal Joshua Alex
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, New York

Miguel Bocanegra
MacDonald Hoague & Bayless, Seattle

Sue Encherman
Northwest Justice Project, Seattle

Karen Falkingham
LAW Fund, Seattle

Joan Foley
Gordon Thomas Honeywell Malanca Peterson & Daheim, Seattle

Dan Ford
Columbia Legal Services, Seattle

Laura Leopold
Global Partnerships, Seattle

Hon. Jorge Madrazo
Sea Mar Community Health Centers, Seattle

Aurora Martin
Columbia Legal Services, Seattle

Teresa Nelson
LAW Fund, Seattle

Sean Phelan
Frank Freed Subit & Thomas, Seattle

Omar Riojas
DLA Piper, Seattle

Andrea Schmitt,
Seattle

Laura Solis
Perkins Coie, Seattle

Emma Zavala-Suarez
Stoel Rives, Seattle

Greg Zipes,
New York