For the second time in three months, the State Bar of Georgia’s Board of Governors delayed a vote on a professional rules change that would require lawyers to establish client trust funds exclusively with banks that offer competitive interest rates.
The proposal now is slated to come up for a vote during the Board of Governors’ spring meeting in March at Lake Oconee. It is part of a package of fund-raising measures recommended by a bar task force to fill a $1.8 million gap in the budgets of Georgia Legal Services and the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
