Trust Accounting & Fees

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

• 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.