Recent News

June 11th, 2020: David Tingstad & Mark Duffy, CEO of Mountain Pacific Bank, discuss the latest on PPP loan forgiveness.Please note this webinar ended early due to technical difficulties. Read More

Recently, Congress passed, and the President signed into law, the Paycheck Protection Flexibility Act (the “Flexibility Act”), which modifies the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”) as set out in the original CARES Act. The Flexibility Act replaces certain provisions of the PPP, while enhancing other PPP provisions.  Significantly, the Flexibility Act makes the following changes… Read More

We are now a little more than a week into June and Washington’s transition from “Stay Home” to “Safe Start” is well under way.  As of today, only 6 of Washington’s counties remain in Phase 1 while 25 counties have moved to Phase 2 and 8 counties have advanced to Phase 3.  While my blog… Read More

Over the last half-century or more, the public has grown accustomed to laws protecting consumers. We hear of large damage awards for perceived minor breaches of duties owed to a consumer. In such an environment, buyers of real estate may be lulled into a false sense of security, assuming incorrectly that they may rely mostly… Read More

On June 2, 2020, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee issued Proclamation 20-19.2, which extends the statewide moratorium on evictions until August 1, 2020.  My colleague Todd Cook previously posted about the original moratorium and April modification to it here:  https://beresfordlaw.com/governor-inslee-expands-scope-of-eviction-moratorium-and-extends-moratorium-until-june-4-2020/.  This latest extension continues most of the same prohibitions as existed previously.  The moratorium prohibits… Read More

On June 3, 2020, the Washington Department of Health announced the launch of an updated COVID-19 risk assessment dashboard.  The dashboard includes detailed data relating to six topics:  Phases & Risk Assessment, COVID-19 Disease Activity, Testing Capacity, Healthcare System Readiness, Case Investigations and Contact Tracing, and Populations at Higher Risk.  In addition to identifying the… Read More

On May 31, 2020, Governor Jay Inslee issued his latest amendment to the “Stay Home – Stay Healthy” order.  The Governor originally issued his “Stay Home” order  on March 23, 2020.  Prior to May 31, the Governor amended the order three times, on April 2, 2020, April 27, 2020 and May 4, 5020.  Each of… Read More

May 28th, 2020 David Tingstad and Tom Over (from Vine Dahlen) speak, Q & A-style, about PPP loans. Read More

In nearly all circumstances, an easement entitles its holder to make only limited use of another’s land.  The default rule in Washington as in most jurisdictions is that even when an owner’s land (legally known as the “servient tenement” or commonly referred to as the “burdened property”) is encumbered by an easement in favor of… Read More