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- Title: Rethinking Iolta (Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts Programs)
- Author : Missouri Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 357 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION In the United States, legal services for the poor primarily come from nonprofit legal aid agencies devoted to providing free or affordable basic services. Most of their funding comes from two sources: the federal Legal Services Corporation (LSC), (1) a quasi-governmental entity whose annual budget is congressionally apportioned, and state-based IOLTA (Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts) programs. (2) Although LSC funds are significantly larger than the aggregate of all IOLTA funds in a given year, (3) they stringently limit the activities of recipient agencies. (4) LSC-funded agencies may not engage in lobbying; class-action lawsuits; criminal defense-related work; advocacy for abortion rights; or representation of prisoners, illegal immigrants, or assisted suicide defendants. (5) These restrictions are comprehensive enough to prompt many legal aid entities to forego LSC funds entirely and rely mostly on IOLTA money (6) supplemented by private donations, charitable fundraisers, and small allocations from the state government. (7)
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