DESCRIPTION
Trust Accounting Essentials
The need to handle with scrupulous care funds entrusted to a lawyer by a client or third person should be self-evident. Nonetheless, there are cases where practicing lawyers, either inadvertently or intentionally, mishandle trust funds, subjecting clients and third persons to the risk of economic hardship and undermining public confidence in the legal profession. The purpose of this is course is threefold: (1) to describe the rules for handling trust funds and property; (2) to discuss relatively recent changes to the handling of fees and trust transactions; and (3) to provide practical guidance on how to use both print and electronic tools to produce client and general ledgers and to perform proper three-way reconciliation of trust funds accounts.
1:30 p.m.
Rules for Handling Trust Funds and Property
Gina Hendryx, OBA General Counsel
2:20 p.m.
Documenting Trust Transactions & Preparing Ledgers – In Print & Electronically (Scenario Completion)
Julie Bays, OBA/MAP Practice Managemnet Advisor
3:10 p.m.
Break
3:20 p.m.
Essential Features of Electronic Tools for Trust Fund Accounting
Julie Bays, OBA/MAP Practice Managemnet Advisor
4:10 p.m.
Adjourn
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