Start with this post: Don’t Overcomplicate Trust Accounting
Videos
- Don’t Fear, Simplify. (25 minutes)
- Basic Requirements(41 minutes)
- Contingent Fees, Referral Fees & Fee Sharing(22 minutes)
- Flat Fees, Misappropriation & Trust Account Scams(35 minutes)
- Collecting & Disbursing Funds(33 minutes)
Blog Posts
- Law offices should learn to identify wire fraud scams & discuss those scams with clients
- Some basics on a lawyer’s duties when handling cryptocurrency
- Timely Reconciliation Continues to Protect Vermont Lawyers Against Trust Account Fraud
- A lawyer’s duties when a third-party asserts an interest in funds being held in trust for a client
- When handling client funds, taking the easy way out could cost your license
- Vermont’s rules on fees labeled “non-refundable” or “earned upon receipt”
- Beware the severance payment scam
- Reconcilation (again) is a good thing! Plus a tip to protect against check fraud
- Timely reconciliation alerts firm to trust account fraud
- A lawyer’s professional responsibility to learn to identify common trust account scams
- Lawyers aren’t Kramer: when it comes to trust accounting, there are no excuses
- Back to (trust account) school
- Safeguarding Client Funds: Tech Competence & Mobile Payment Apps
- Taylor Swift & Trust Accounts: Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn Ya
- Disbursing without Collected Funds
- Mobile Payments & Legal Fees
- Trust Accounting Tips
- Trust Account Scams Continue
- I. & Jack Torrance: an overview of the trust account rules
- Third-Party Claims against Client Funds
- With trust accounts, verify
- Misappropriation: Don’t.
- Misappropriation: Don’t.
- Trust Account Tuesday: Nonrefundable fees
- Teddy KGB on prompt notification and delivery
- When a third-party asserts an “interest” in funds held in trust
- Trust Account Tuesday: (generally) don’t disburse absent collected funds.
- Trust Accounting: Basic Requirements
- Trust Account Tuesday: Don’t Commingle
- Trust Accounts & ACH Transfers
- Trust Account Scams: Change in Wire Instructions? CAUTION!!!!
- Don’t overcomplicate trust accounting.
Ethical Grounds 