An attorney trust account is unlike any other bank account. Unique rules apply, and most lawyers don't know them, so solos and small firms tremble at the thought of an ethics audit. Attorneys in large ...

Accepting the role of trustee comes with unique responsibilities, ethical obligations and a significant amount of risk. Even the most well-intentioned trustee can be subjected to scrutiny by ...

U.S. District Judge James Robertson said he hopes to issue a ruling by mid-July on how much money Indian Trust beneficiaries failed to receive as a result of the government's mismanagement of their ...

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Trust beneficiaries often request a corporate trustee to prepare a statutory accounting. The Texas Trust Code in Section 113.151 provides that a beneficiary may request a written statement of accounts ...

Trust banking might sound like a boring topic, but it’s actually pretty important. It’s all about managing your money and assets in a way that helps protect them for the future. But here’s the thing: ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paradigm, a market-leading provider of legal practice management and payments software, today announced its acquisition of TrustBooks, a cloud-based accounting software ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers is stressing the concept of trust in its recently restructured firm and in a new survey that examines where business leaders, customers and employees differ on trust. In June, ...

When I went to Washington on a hot, sultry June day in 1996 to file a lawsuit over the billions of dollars of trust funds that the government had lost, misplaced and otherwise grossly mismanaged for ...

The trust company that was accused of embezzling $1.4 million from a trust account is still in business. P. Sterling Kerr, senior trust officer for Trust Company of the Pacific, denied that money was ...

Q: We recently started a tour operator company. We plan to place client deposits in a bank account that we will call our "trust account." Checks payable to our company will be endorsed by us to the ...