- Practice Area:
- Ethics | General Practice
- Format:
- Audio and Video
Description
This presentation will be an instructional CLE focused on trust accounting procedures and real practice scenarios. Participants will be provided with a self-audit for lawyer trust accounting, with guidance for building simple, routine steps to reduce mistakes and OCDC inquiries, and to protect client and attorney funds.
- Account set-up; Lawyer Trust Account Foundation regulations
- Receipts, deposits and disbursements with client trust accounts
- Fiduciary concepts. (Whose money is it?)
- Record keeping requirements. (Rule 4-1.15)
- 21st Century problems and solutions (credit cards, electronic banking, accounting software, faster check processing)
- Security, supervision, delegation; reconciliation
- Rule changes and case analyses
Speakers: Kelly Dillon CFE, Investigative Examiner, Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Jefferson City and Sam S. Phillips, Deputy Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Jefferson City
