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    Hygiene for Trust Accounts: Time for a Check-Up?

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    By Janis M. Meyer  Any law student who has taken a legal ethics course knows that converting or otherwise misappropriating the funds of a client or third party entrusted to a lawyer’s care provides a surefire route to suspension or disbarment. The logical...

  • Looking for Solution to Misuse of Client Funds

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    By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR April 2007]   [Editor’s note: This is the first of a series on misappropriation of client funds by lawyers holding escrow deposits.] Although the number of offending lawyers is small, and the total of...

  • Protecting Client Funds When A Lawyer Dies

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    By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR November 2002]   The case of Hynes v. Citibank, NA [Sup. Ct., Queens Cty., Oct. 2002], outlines the procedure to follow when a single practitioner dies leaving undisbursed client funds in his attorney...

  • Handling Client’s Funds — Guidelines from Texas Judge

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    By Joseph S. Genova [Originally published in NYPRR July 2000]   [Editor’s note: This is Part II of a two-part article. Part I was published in NYPRR April 2000.] After trial, following remand from the Supreme Court, Judge James R. Nowlin performed an...

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