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4 Wash. St. B. News 1 (1950)

handle is hein.barjournals/wasbn0004 and id is 1 raw text is: wa bington btate Jtav Jetvu5 Vol. 4, No. 1 January, 1950 Page 1 STATE BAR WILL MEET IN SPOKANE IN AUGUST The Board of Governors has decided to hold the 1950 annual meeting of the Wash- ington State Bar Association in Spokane on August 10, 11 and 12, with headquar- ters in the Davenport Hotel. Tentative plans indicate that the morning sessions of the three-day meeting will be devoted to legal institutes or section meetings dealing with legal topics, leaving the aft- ernoons to the business meetings of the Association. President V. 0. Nichoson has appointed a General Convention Committee consist- ing of: Justin C. Maloney, Spokane, and Paul P. Ashley, Seattle, as co-chairmen, and Tracy E. Griffin and John N. Rupp, both of Seattle. The Resolutions Committee has also been appointed. Members are: Richard S. Munter, Spokane, chairman; Thomas P. Gose, Walla Walla; F. A. Kern, Ellens- burg; Thomas O'Leary, Olympia; Cyrus Happy, Tacoma; Joseph L. Hughes, We- natchee; and Samuel B. Bassett, Seattle. We hardly need to remind members of the bar that all resolutions must be sub- mitted to the Resolutions Committee and tha August will come with startling sud- denness once the snow melts. As to the melting of the snow we make no predic- tion, but we will depart from our usual conservative editorial policy far enough to point out that it usually does melt some time in the spring. SPOKANE TAX INSTITUTE As we go to press we are informed that the one-day Tax Institute for Spo- kane and Eastern Washington lawyers is scheduled for January 28 in the Medical Arts Building auditorium in Spokane. Originally set for January 21, it was postponed a week due to weather condi- tions. Speakers will be Charles F. Osborn of the Seattle bar; Alfred Harsch, acting dean of the University of Washington law school, and Douglas Barnes of the Technical Staff of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The general subject of the meet- ing will be the problems encountered in the income taxes of individuals. The institute is under the joint spon- sorship of the American Law Institute and the Spokane County Bar Association. CHAS. A. TURNER DIES • Charles A. Turner, 72, of the Everett Bar, died on November 3. He had prac- ticed law in the State of Washington for 40 ¢ears. CHANGES IN SEATTLE The first of the year brought three major realignments in Seattle law firms, each involving an old and prominent of- rice. No longer in operation are the firms of Padden & Moriarty; Bayley, Fite, Mar- tin & *Shorts; and Westberg & James. George W. Martin and Bruce Shorts have joined George C. Kinnear as the Seattle partners of Graves, Kizer & Graves, with offices in the Henry Building. A new firm, Bayley, Fite, Westberg & Goodin, has been formed in the old Bay- ley offices in the Henry Building. Part- ners are Frank S. Bayley, F. Bartow Fite, Jr., Alfred J. Westberg, Frank S. Bayley, Jr., and Paul A. Goodin. John F. Robin- son (no kin to Judge John S. Robinson) is associate. Padden & Moriarty has been dissolved. Stanley J. Padden, who has practiced law in Seattle for 40 years, has become as- sociated with P. 0. D. Vedova, Erle W. Horswill and Robert D. Yeomans, with offices located in the Central Building. Charles P. Moriarty and Richard T. Olson have formed the firm of Moriarty & Olson, retaining offices in the American Build- ing. Associated with this new firm are Owen C. Campbell, a 1948 graduate of the University of Washington Law School, and Fred H. Dore, a graduate of George- town University Law School and a nephew of the late John F. Dore. On December 15, it was announced that Gordon S. Clinton had become associated with Ronald W. Meier and Hulbert S. Murray in the firm of Meier & Murray in the Northern Life Tower. January 1 also brought the news that two more Boglemen have made the grade and that the firm of Bogle, Bogle & Gates now consists of ten partners and eleven associates. The new partners are Robert W. Graham and Charles F. Osborn. Gra- ham is a graduate of Whitman College and Columbia Law School and has been in the practice for ten years. Osborn was admitted to the bar in 1941 following his graduation from Harvard Law School. Also on January 1, J. Allan Evans, for- merly associated with Evans, McLaren, Lane, Powell & Beeks, opened his own office at 576 Dexter Horton Building. BUNKER IN LACROSSE Evans C. Bunker, who practiced law in Seattle from 1930 to ,1940, has moved to Lacrosse, Washington, where he is taking over the law office of Paul F. Scharpenberg. Bunker served in the Army from 1940 to August, 1949, and saw serv- ice in Europe in anti-aircraft artillery and military government. MATHIEU ATTACKS UNLAWFUL PRACTITIONERS The big guns of the state bar com- mittee on unauthorized practice of law are being leveled against lay practitioners who lack the requisite training and who are not bound to the disciplinary stand- ards of lawyers. Chairman George E. Mathieu of Seattle has recently announc- ed that the Yakima case of Washington State Bar Association vs. Washington As- sociation of Realtors, the test case pend- ing in Yakima County for something over two years, has now been placed at issue and is awaiting a trial date. F. L. Stotler is chief counsel representing the Bar As- sociation and will be assisted by A. Vernon Stoneman. They have persisted in their demands that the defendants file an answer in the cause, which has just been done. No other barrier is now seen to an early trial of the cause, and Mr. Stoneman indicated last week that the case should be reached in the Yakima courts by spring, 1950. Meanwhile, Chairman Mathieu has urged all attorneys in the state to be on the lookout for acts that may constitute unauthorized practice of law and to ad- vise him or representatives of his com- mittee of any actions that warrant further investigation or possible prosecution. It is the belief of Mr. Mathieu that the action of his committee will reflect the feelings of members of the bar and that unless the bench and bar are militant and united in an effort to enlighten and guide the public, then the committee cannot expect to achieve the results that it has set for itself. Attorneys who have knowledge of any unauthorized practice of law by laymen, be they real estate brokers, bookkeepers, accountants, bankers, insurance adjusters, notaries or others, should communicate with the committee in care of the Wash- ington State Bar Association office, 501 Third Avenue, Seattle, or with Mr. Mathieu at 760 Central Building, Seattle 4, or counsel for the committee, Mr. A. V. Stoneman, 205 Central Building, Auburn, Washington. The latest (November, 1949) issue of the State Bar Journal carries a full report by Mr. Mathieu to the Bench and Bar of the State on the subject of unauthorized practice. The article appears at page 387, and is the strongest challenge made in many years on the lethargy in dealing with unauthorized practice,

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