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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among an attorney's most important duties is the obligation to safeguard all client and third-party property held in trust. It is an obligation that lawyers learn about in law school, and hear about ...