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  "name": "ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION, IN THE MATTER OF INTEREST ON LAWYERS' TRUST ACCOUNTS",
  "name_abbreviation": "Arkansas Bar Ass'n",
  "decision_date": "1985-05-13",
  "docket_number": "84-90",
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      "cite": "689 S.W.2d 352"
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      "cite": "283 Ark. 252",
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      "reporter": "Ark.",
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      "year": 1984,
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    "parties": [
      "ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION, IN THE MATTER OF INTEREST ON LAWYERS\u2019 TRUST ACCOUNTS"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nOn September 17, 1984, we granted a petition by the Arkansas Bar Association requesting that we permit establishment of a program for collecting interest on monies deposited in lawyers\u2019 trust accounts and for use of the interest earned for certain purposes having to do with furthering legal education and the sound administration of justice in Arkansas. In the Matter of the Arkansas Bar Association Petition to Authorize a Program Governing Interest on Lawyers\u2019 Trust Accounts, 283 Ark. 252, 675 S.W.2d 355 (1984).\nOur opinion contained, in part, this language:\n4. Client consent is not an element of the IOLTA program. However, attorneys and law firms participating in the program shall inform their clients of their participation by sending to each client a notice, in the form set out below, providing information concerning the new procedures and the uses of trust earnings.\nThe petitioner has pointed out this language could be interpreted as requiring notice be sent to all clients of any participating lawyer, whether the client had money in the lawyer\u2019s trust fund or not. We agree that would be a useless act in many instances.\nThe petitioner suggests our opinion be changed to permit a lawyer to give notice to his clients by posting it in the lawyer\u2019s office.\nOur opinion is hereby modified by replacing the language quoted above with the following:\n4. Client consent is not an element of the IOLTA program. However, on the same day as a client\u2019s money is first deposited in a participating attorney or law firm\u2019s trust account, the attorney or law firm shall mail a notice to that client in the form set out below, providing information concerning the procedures and the uses of trust earnings. Subsequent deposits of money of a client who has once been notified may be made without repeating the notice.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
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    "attorneys": [
      "William R. Wilson, Jr., for Arkansas Bar Association, petitioner."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION, IN THE MATTER OF INTEREST ON LAWYERS\u2019 TRUST ACCOUNTS\n84-90\n689 S.W.2d 352\nSupreme Court of Arkansas\nOpinion delivered May 13, 1985\nWilliam R. Wilson, Jr., for Arkansas Bar Association, petitioner."
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