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The Washington Supreme Court recently released its long-awaited opinion in Estate of Bracken v. State Department of Revenue, 175 Wn.2d 549, 290 P.3d 99 (2012).

Stokes Lawrence is proud to be an early sponsor of the Future of the Law Institute. FLI allows minority and economically disadvantaged high school students interested in learning about legal careers to interact with legal professionals through substantive legal workshops, career counseling, mock trials, and courthouse tours. Several Seattle law firms, including Stokes Lawrence, sponsor FLI students as summer interns.

We congratulate our 2012 Stokes Lawrence 1L Diversity Scholarship winners: Alain Huynh - Gonzaga University School of Law; Erica Koch - Seattle University School of Law; and Daniel Pizarro - University of Washington School of Law.

Morrie Shore was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® Lawyer of the Year - Corporate Law (2013, Yakima).

Stokes Lawrence is proud to announce that ten of its attorneys, Carolyn Cairns, Chris Farias, Kelby Fletcher, Doug Lawrence, Rick Rasmussen, Leslie Ruiter, Shannon Jost, Scott Johnson, Morrie Shore, and George Velikanje, were selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America.

Shannon Jost and Leslie Ruiter were recognized as leaders among state intellectual property lawyers in a Chambers USA survey recently featured in the Puget Sound Business Journal. Stokes Lawrence was listed among the nine leading Washington state law firms in the practice of Intellectual Property based on "its ability to cover a broad range of both IP transactions and disputes." Carolyn Cairns was also recognized as a Notable Practitioner in the Labor and Employment area.