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Bar Association honors Spokane lawyer Dennis with Lifetime Service Award
Summary
Members and colleagues at a Bar Association event praised Dennis for decades of pro bono work, mentoring law students, and helping found local legal clinics, and recalled his role in pushing adoption of GR 40 to make family-court procedures more accessible.
Speaker 1, Commenter, said, “I believe Dennis is deserving of a Lifetime Service Award because that's what he did with his entire professional life.”
Speakers at a Bar Association gathering in Spokane paid tribute to Dennis, highlighting his decades of pro bono work, mentoring of law students, and involvement in founding local legal clinics and programs that serve low-income residents.
The speakers said Dennis made pro bono work a central part of his private practice. “If Dennis could have done everything for free, he would have. A private practice was more than 50% pro bono,” Speaker 2, Commenter, said.…
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