The news came out late at night in March. Desperate for money and looking for anything to bridge historic budget deficits, the state needed funds and needed them quickly.
What they found was a $2 million surplus in the Client Security Fund, a creation of the bar with the purpose of recompensing clients wronged by their attorneys. Gov. M. Jodi Rell made a move to sweep it into the general fund.
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