Wash. R. for Enforcement of Lawyer Conduct 3.1

(a) Open Meetings. Disciplinary hearings and meetings of the Board are public. Except

as otherwise provided in these rules, Supreme Court proceedings are public to the same extent as

other Supreme Court proceedings. Deliberations of a hearing officer, board, review committee,

or court, and matters made confidential by a protective order, or by other provisions of these

rules, are not public.

(b) Public Disciplinary Information. The public has access to the following information

subject to these rules:

(1) the record before a review committee and the order of the review committee in any

matter that a review committee has ordered to hearing or ordered an admonition be issued;

(2) the record upon distribution to a review committee or to the Supreme Court in

proceedings based on a conviction of a felony, as defined in rule 7.1(a);

(3) the record upon distribution to a review committee or to the Supreme Court in

proceedings under rule 7.2;

(4) a statement of concern to the extent provided under rule 3.4(f);

(5) the record and order upon approval of a stipulation for discipline imposing a sanction or

admonition, and the order approving a stipulation to dismissal of a matter previously made

public under these rules;

(6) the record before a hearing officer;

(7) the record and order before the Board in any matter reviewed under rule 10.9 or

Title 11;

(8) the bar file and any exhibits and any Board or review committee order in any matter

ordered to public hearing, or that is deemed ordered to hearing under rule 13.5(a)(2), or any

matter in which disciplinary action has been taken, or any proceeding under rules 7.1-7.6;

(9) in any disciplinary matter referred to the Supreme Court, the file, record, briefs, and

argument in the case;

(10) a lawyer’s resignation in lieu of discipline under rule 9.3;

(11) any sanction or admonition imposed on a respondent; and

(12) a stipulation to dismissal upon institution of proceedings for failure to comply with the

terms of the stipulation.

(c) Regulations. Public access to file materials and proceedings permitted by this rule may

be subject to reasonable regulation as to time, place, and manner of access. Certified copies of

public bar file documents will be made available at the same rate as certified copies of superior

court records. Uncertified copies of public bar file documents will be made available at a rate to

be set by the Executive Director of the Association.