Legal Opinion
In Re Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts
Utah Supreme Court
Decided October 25, 1983No. 19266PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Per curiam
This petition invokes the Court’s constitutional original jurisdiction to regulate the legal profession. See generally In re Utah State Bar Petition, Etc., Utah, 647 P.2d 991 (1982).
The Utah Bar Foundation and the Board of Commissioners of the Utah State Bar seek approval to implement a program under which interest accrued on certain lawyers’ accounts held in trust for clients would be paid to the Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, to support law-related charitable objects such as legal aid for the disadvantaged, law reform, and the administration of justice. Interest on lawyers’ trust…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Matter of Interest on Trust AccountsSupreme Court of Florida · 1981
- Petition of Minn. State Bar Ass'n, Etc.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1982
- In re New Hampshire Bar Ass'n & New Hampshire Bar FoundationSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1982
- In Re Interest on Lawyer's Trust AccountsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1983
- In Re Utah State Bar Petition for Approval of Changes in Disciplinary Rules on AdvertisingUtah Supreme Court · 1982
3Cited by18 opinions
- Phillips v. Washington Legal FoundationSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
- Washington Legal Foundation v. Massachusetts Bar FoundationCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1993
- Petition by the Mass. Bar Ass'n & the Boston Bar Ass'nMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
- Washington Legal Foundation v. Texas Equal Access to Justice FoundationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1996
- Cone v. the Florida BarDistrict Court, M.D. Florida · 1985
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