Math for Lawyers: The Importance of Counting to Five

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Washington State Bar News

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You don’t need to know much math as a lawyer. But you do need to know how to count to five. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. used to say, “Five votes can do anything around here.” The same is true of our Washington Supreme Court. Five votes will create a precedent that binds all the courts in our state—and may even bind future iterations of the Washington Supreme Court itself.

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