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March 13, 2012
Above: Judith Billings, co-chair of the Council on Public Legal Education, presents the 2009 award to Rick Nagel at the YMCA Youth and Government's annual mock...
May 10, 2012
1. No L&I (workers’ compensation) for People Who Work Over Water As soon as as your work is away from shore, on any so-called “navigable waterway”, state law stops and you come under the...
February 20, 2012
Richard “Dick” Larsen, an editorial writer and political reporter for The Seattle Times, was the first recipient of CPLE’s Flame of Democracy Award. Larsen received the award posthumously in...
February 14, 2012
On February 8, 2012, 28 Garfield High School students began their training to serve in the first-ever Seattle Youth Traffic Court. This constituted the formal start to the project formed with the...
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The age of majority in Washington is 18. Suddenly new rights, responsibilities, opportunities and risks confront the new adult. How do you deal with all these things that were not on your radar before? Reading some of the material here will be a good start.