The Law of Lawyering in Washington

Tom Andrews is an emeritus professor at the University of Washington School of Law. A 1979 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, he joined the UW law faculty in 1985 after five years of practice in Washington, D.C., and a year clerking for the Honorable Louis H. Pollak, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. His principal teaching and research interests are in the areas of professional responsibility and property law (especially trusts and estates and community property).

Professor Andrews is a member of the Washington State Bar and a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), and a member of the Estate Planning Council of Seattle. He has served on the Rules of Professional Conduct Committee of the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) and on the WSBA Disciplinary Board, and he now serves on the Practice of Law Board.

Professor Andrews served as co-editor-in-chief of the Washington Estate Planning Deskbook (2005) and the Washington Probate Deskbook (2005), both published by the WSBA, and wrote chapters for each deskbook. He also served on the editorial board for the Washington Community Property Deskbook (3d ed. 2003) and is the principal editor and updater of four chapters in that deskbook.

Rob Aronson is an emeritus professor at the University of Washington School of Law, specializing in the areas of evidence and professional responsibility. Professor Aronson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1973 and clerked for the Honorable James Carter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, before joining the UW faculty in 1975. He has served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Professional Responsibility; on the National Conference of Bar Examiners Drafting Committee for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE); on the Washington Legislative Ethics Board; on the AALS Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance; and as Reporter for the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Standards of Conduct. He was a member of the drafting committees for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) Code of Conduct, the Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Rules of Evidence, and other projects.

Professor Aronson is the author of two casebooks and The Law of Evidence in Washington (4th ed. 2003 & Supp. 2011), is co-author of Professional Responsibility in a Nutshell (2d ed. 1991), and has written numerous chapters and articles on professional responsibility.

Mark Fucile is a founding partner at Fucile & Reising LLP in Portland, Oregon. He handles professional responsibility, regulatory, and attorney-client privilege matters, as well as law frm-related litigation, for lawyers, law frms, and in-house legal departments throughout the Northwest. Mr. Fucile is admitted to practice in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, and the District of Columbia. He received his B.S. degree from Lewis & Clark College and his J.D. from UCLA. Mr. Fucile is a past chair and a current member of the WSBA Rules of Professional Conduct Committee, a former member of the Oregon State Bar Legal Ethics Committee, and a member of the Idaho State Bar Section on Professionalism & Ethics. He was a member of the WSBA Special Committee for the Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct that developed the new Washington RPC adopted in 2006. He writes the Ethics & the Law column for the Washington State Bar News and the monthly Ethics Focus column for the Multnomah (Portland) Bar's Multnomah Lawyer.

Mr. Fucile is a contributing author/ editor for the current editions of the Washington Legal Ethics Deskbook, published by the WSBA, and the Oregon State Bar's Ethical Oregon Lawyer.

Art Lachman practices in Seattle, Washington, focusing on legal ethics, professional liability, and law-frm risk-management issues. A 1989 graduate of the University of Washington School of Law, he clerked for the Honorable Eugene A. Wright, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Lachman has practiced as a commercial litigation attorney and has taught civil litigation and ethics subjects at the University of Washington and University of Puget Sound (now Seattle University) Schools of Law. He is a frequent speaker on ethics and risk management topics at national and Washington state continuing education seminars and was an editor of the current edition of the WSBA's Washington Legal Ethics Deskbook.

Mr. Lachman served two years as chair of the WSBA Rules of Professional Conduct Committee, is a member of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s National Conference Planning Committee, and holds a leadership position in the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.