Updated: Sept. 11, 2024
Keller Compliance Option 2025
Notice to WSBA Members
In a U.S. Supreme Court case Keller v. State Bar of California, the Court ruled that a bar association may not use mandatory member fees to support political or ideological activities that are not reasonably related to the regulation of the legal profession or improving the quality of legal services. The bar is required to identify that portion of mandatory license fees that go to such "nonchargeable" activities and establish a system whereby objecting members may either deduct that portion of their fees or receive a refund.
This year (2025), objecting members may deduct up to the following amounts:
| 2025 License Fee | Keller Deduction | |
| Active Lawyer Admitted to any Bar before 2023 | $458.00 | $7.70 |
| Active Lawyer Admitted to any Bar in 2023 or 2024 | $229.00 | $3.85 |
| Inactive/Pro Bono Lawyer | $200.00 | $3.36 |
| New Active Lawyer – admitted same year of exam Jan. 1-June 30 | $229.00 | $3.85 |
| New Active Lawyer – admitted same year of exam July 1-Dec 31 | $114.50 | $1.93 |
| Active LLLT Admitted before 2023 | $229.00 | $3.85 |
| Active LLLT Admitted in 2023 or 2024 | $114.50 | $1.93 |
| Active LPO Admitted before 2023 | $200.00 | $3.36 |
| Active LPO Admitted in 2023 or 2024 | $100.00 | $1.68 |
| New Active LPO – admitted same year of exam Jan. 1-June 30 | $100.00 | $1.68 |
| New Active LPO – admitted same year of exam July 1-Dec. 31 | $50.00 | $0.84 |
| Inactive LLLT or LPO | $100.00 | $1.68 |
| Judicial | $50.00 | $0.84 |
