I am attempting to collect monies a lawyer owes me pursuant to a judgement. I have been litigating this. I know fees were paid to the lawyer, and they are in his IOLTA account on this same case. Can I try to garnish on the ESCROW account?

The answer is clearly no. The reason is pretty straight forward. Monies held in an IOLTA account are not the attorney’s monies. They are the client’s monies. Once they are earned, the attorney has to get those funds out of the account, and cannot continue to maintain them in the IOLTA account.

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