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For the Public Good 2004 - 2005 Report ...For the Public Good Kinship Care VAPWA Newcomers Project Neighborhood Legal Clinics Volunteer Legal Services Family Law Self Help Plus Housing Justice Homeless Project Building A Book of Business Family Law Mentor Future of the Law Institute Law Student Scholarships With Justice for All Dear Friends and Colleagues: The 2004- 2005 fiscal year was a watershed year for the King County Bar Foundation. It marked the first ever joint campaign by the Foundation and LAW Fund to gain increased law firm contributions for legal services for low-income families and minority law school scholarships under the banner of the Campaign for Equal Justice. The success of the Campaign combined with the overwhelming success of the 2005 Breakfast with Champions, and other perhaps less spectacular but equally important efforts resulted in a record year for the Foundation. Total contributions were $694,000, an increase of $70,000. As result , the Foundation was able to grant the University of Washington and Seattle University law schools the significantly increased sum of $110,000 for minority scholarships. The grants were seen by the law school deans as crucial to their efforts to attract outstanding students of color. King County Bar Foundation-funded Our legal services programs continued their growth with 1,500 volunteers providing Family Law Attorneys 24,000 hours of pro bono legal services worth more than $4.6 million. are there to help. In this report we have recognized some of the lawyers, law firms, corporate legal departments, and judges who have contributed their time and dollars to provide Sylvia’s abusive husband was volunteer legal services to those persons in our community who would not otherwise arrested for first degree rape of be able to afford much needed legal representation. their next door neighbor, after a history of DV assault 4, drug Our base of support from the business community has continued to grow with trafficking and extortion. He ran Microsoft, Starbucks, Washington Mutual, Navigant, Moneytree, and COSTCO taking the lead in corporate contributions.. up medical bills “Doctor Shop- ping” for prescription drugs and Notwithstanding our gratifying success this year, the unmet needs for legal services his creditors garnished Sylvia’s and the challenge to continue to increase diversity in our profession demand that we wages. She was facing a power build on this year’s accomplishments and redouble our efforts to achieve new records shut off and eviction when she in contributions and personal commitments of time and talent in the year ahead. found a KCBF/KCBA pro Thank you for your continuing support. bono attorney who took her case and secured a dissolution Yours truly, of mariage plus restraining or- ders to protect Sylvia and her children. Fredric C. Tausend 2004-2005 Financial Summary* Contributions: $ 693,743 Distributions:$ 693,743 Diversity Discretionary Reserves Endowment Minority Scholarships Administration Grants Unrestricted Donations Interest, Royalties & Misc. Restricted Donations Grants for Legal Services & Diversity *Cash only. Multi-year pledges for $148,000 were also received. Unaudited figures, September 2005 2004 - 2005 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mission The Foundation is dedicated to ensuring access to the legal system and encouraging diversity in the legal Fredric C. Tausend Geoffrey Revelle Douglas W. Greene Jon Knoll Daniel Gandara profession. President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Immediate Past President Preston Gates & Ellis Stoel Rives Wilson Sonsini Knoll Consulting Vandeberg Johnson & Gandara Goodrich & Rosati Vision A legal system open to and representative of Christopher M. Alston Hon. Sharon S. Armstrong Hon. Charles S. Catalina Cantu Eileen M.Concannon Foster Pepper & King County Superior Burdell, Jr. King County Risk Riddell Williams every member of our Shefelman Court Judicial Dispute Management Resolution community. Daniel J. Dunne Peter S. Ehrlichman Stephen C. Ellis Paul S. Ficca William D. Garcia Heller Ehrman Dorsey & Whitney Holland & Knight FTI Consulting SAFECO KCBF funded Housing Justice Project helps low income residents who are facing eviction from their homes. Michael Green Rosa Kim M. Colleen Kinerk Susan L. Mask Paul Mutty Starbucks Coffee A young mother with three children Davis Wright Tremaine Microsoft Corporation Cable Langenbach Kinerk Washington Mutual Bank International soon discovered an infestation of rats in her new apartment. She contacted the health department which, after inspection, issued an emergency order citing the pre- mises as a violation of health and safety codes. The landlord refused Constance L. Proctor Marcella Fleming Reed Harry H. Schneider, Jr. J.D. Smith Blair Stone to fix the problem and sought to Karr Tuttle Campbell The MFR Law Group Perkins Coie Gordon, Thomas Phillips Law Group, PLLC Honeywell, Malanca, PLLC evict the tentant when she refused Peterson & Daheim to pay rent. KCBF pro bono law- yers negotiated a move-out with no money judgment and were able to preserve the client’s section 8 voucher. Christopher B. Wells Michael R. Wrenn Lane Powell Heller Ehrman K I N G C O U N T Y B A R F O U N D A T I O N Ensuring Access to Justice YOUR DONATIONS AT WORK Volunteer Legal Services VLS provides free direct representation to low-income King County residents on a broad array of civil legal issues including housing, debt, consumer, wills and estate planning, special education, public benefits, real estate foreclosures and predatory lending. Volunteer Attorneys for Persons with AIDS/HIV & AIDS Family Law Legal Access VAPWA/ALA provides free, reduced- Self-Help Plus fee, and regular-fee legal referrals to Self -Help Plus assists low and moderate- individuals living with HIV/AIDS. income King County residents Lawyers are available to assist clients file for uncontested dissolution, child in most areas of civil law. support modifications, and minor parenting plan modifications. Service is provided on a sliding fee scale Native American based on client income. Wills Project Kinship Care Solutions This project works with Native American Neighborhood Legal communities to provide estate planning Project services to individuals who own trust land. Clinics Trust land is land in which the United States This project assists low-income relatives 25 Neighborhood Legal Clinics offer holds legal title, with the entire beneficial and others obtain legal custody of free legal half-hour consultations on interest held by individual landowners. children in their care. Volunteer attorneys represent the caretakers in third party a wide range of issues to King County custody proceedings. residents, regardless of income. Volunteer Homeless Project attorneys help individuals understand their Legal Services for the Homeless provides Newcomers Resource legal issues and provide information and/or free advice and assistance with referrals. legal problems to individuals who Project are homeless and currently using Newcomers Resource Project provides Housing Justice shelter services. Several law firms community workshops and free legal and King County Civil Division Deputy services on nonimmigration civil issues to Project Prosecutors each sponsor a local newcomers, immigrants, and refugees who HJP provides free legal assistance to shelter. reside in King County. Newcomers King County residents facing the loss of partners with Casa Latina to assist housing due to an eviction. The program is Family Law Mentor workers with wage claims located in Room W314 near the ExParte department of King County Courthouse in Family Law Mentor provides free, Seattle and Room 1281 at the Regional Justice direct representation to low-income Center in Kent -- open Monday-Friday 8:30- residents in contested dissolution or All programs provide foreign 10:30 AM. custody cases where children are at risk. language and ASL interpreters. K I N G C O U N T Y B A R F O U N D A T I O N Diversity Coalition Increasing Diversity in Five years ago King County Bar Foundation convened a meeting of Minority and Specialty Bars, University of Washington and Seattle the Legal Profession University law schools, and Superior Court Judges to discuss ways to increase diversity in the legal profession. A three fold agenda emerged: • Increase the pool of students of color entering law school. • Provide financial assistance to minority law students. • Increase retention of minority lawyers in King County law offices. Future of the Law Institute FLI encourages minority and economically disadvantaged high school students to pursue higher education and law-related careers, thus broadening the pool of persons KCBF Minority Law entering the legal profession. In particular, Student Scholarships the Institute, which is free to the students and their respective schools, (1) introduces students to have grown in size the law, both substantively and as a potential career option; (2) inspires interest in pursuing law-related and importance education and careers through hands-on KCBF is the largest single provider workshops as well as the opportunity to build of minority law student scholarships relationships with law students, lawyers, judges, law in Washington. In 2004-2005, $110,000 professors and other community leaders; and (3) was distributed to University of provides information and resources on how to get Washington and Seattle University from high school to law school. An active law schools for this purpose. Over mentoring program ensures continuity at the 400 students have benefited from conclusion of the
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