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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

   The 2005 LAW Fund Board of Directors

   Front row, from left to right: John Powers, Steve Henderson, LAW Fund Director,

   Karen Falkingham, Sal Mungia, Bill Kinsel, Rick Potter, John Teutsch, Bill Etter and Paula Boggs.

   Back row, from left to right: Dick Byington, Jennifer Wing, LAW Fund Statewide Campaign Coordinator,

   Larry Lium, John Moffat, Scott Holte, Andy Saller, Angela Niemann and Lisa Lowe

   Not Pictured: Jerry Edmonds, Steve Crossland, Josh Alex, Faith Ireland, Eric Frimodt, Susan Fahringer, Dave Groesbeck, Barry Kaplan and LAW Fund Annual Giving Director, Teresa Nelson

                          LAW Fund Board member, Paula Boggs and

                           2005 Goldmark Award Winner, Ada-Shen Jaffe

                          LAW Fund Advisory Board member, William H. Gates, Sr.,

                           speaking at the 2005 Goldmark Award Luncheon

                               Laurel Rubin Farm Worker Justice Project Chair,

                               Cristóbal Joshua Alex, Access to Justice Board

                               member, Dwight S. Williams and Legal Foundation

                               of Washington Assistant Director, Caitlin Davis-Carlson

                         Legal Foundation of Washington Executive Director,

                          Barbara Clark, Legal Foundation of Washington Board

                         President, Professor Robert Anderson, LAW Fund Board

                          President, William A. Kinsel and LAW Fund Director,

                          Karen Falkingham

                        LAW Fund Lifetime Board Member, Wendy Bohlke speaks with

                         LAW Fund Board member John Teutsch and LAW Fund

                         Statewide Campaign Coordinator, Larry Lium

                         LAW Fund Advisory Council member William H. Gates, Sr.

                          and LAW Fund Board member H. Scott Holte