Northern California Record

February 21, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO – The California State Bar is pushing efforts to increase interest rates on the Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA), a fund that helps in part to provide legal aid grants.

Those efforts are expected help interest earned on the accounts reach record highs this year, the California State Bar said in a Feb. 20 release. Over half of the state bar’s legal aid grant funds came from IOLTA in the last 35 years.

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