Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. NC Republican lawmakers have frozen grants from a NC State Bar fund that supports free ...

A new state audit of a fund meant to provide free legal help to indigent clients found the fund lacked adequate oversight. The audit comes as the state’s year-long freeze on the program nears its end.

Wells Fargo & Company Monday joined the IOLTA Honor Roll, a joint project of Maryland Legal Services Corporation (MLSC) and the Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA) recognizes financial institutions ...

That a lawyer can keep more than $225,000 in unclaimed money in his or her IOLTA account indefinitely is insane. But the current rules in Connecticut allow it. In the recent decision of the Office of ...

The amendments were adopted in response to the court's decision in the Matter of Olchowski (2020), which posed the question concerning the proper disposition of unidentified client funds on deposit in ...

As interest rates remain low, a program that relies on interest-bearing accounts to fund D.C. legal aid providers is struggling to raise money. The Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts program, or IOLTA ...