On March 23, 2016, the Louisiana Supreme Court amended the Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct 1.15 concerning how lawyers and law firms should handle unidentified funds accumulated in their IOLTA accounts. The amended rule directs lawyers who discover unidentified funds defined as funds in an IOLTA account for at least one year that after reasonable due diligence cannot be documented as belonging to a client, a third person or the lawyer or law firm, to be remitted to the Louisiana Bar Foundation. The new rule was effective on March 23, 2016.
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