Posts Tagged ‘Trust Accounts’

Who Controls Disbarred Lawyer’s Trust Account? — Proposed Amendments to DR 9-102(G)

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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR August 2008] This column is about a Disciplinary Rule that you and your law firm have probably never encountered but that profoundly affects the public image of the legal profession. It is about DR 9-102(G),...
Primer on Trust Accounts — Don’t Use Money & Do Keep Records

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By Sarah Diane McShea [Originally published in NYPRR April 2001] It may seem surprising that despite nearly two decades of vigorous enforcement of the rules governing escrow accounts, the leading offenses cited in suspension and disbarment cases in New...
Who Controls Your Trust Account? Your Client or His Creditor?

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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR October 1999] I staff the Nassau Bar Ethics Hotline, and several lawyers a week call to ask ethics questions. A question that arises often is the degree to which a client can control the funds in an...

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