Rules Regulating The Florida Bar — Trust Accounts – 2026
Two rules, and between them the whole of Florida's trust accounting law. Rule 5-1.1 governs the nature of money or property entrusted to an attorney: a lawyer must hold in trust, separate from the lawyer's own property, the funds and property of clients or third persons held in connection with a representation, in a separate federally insured account in the state where the lawyer's office is situated and clearly designated as a trust account. It carries the narrow exceptions — enough of the lawyer's own money to cover bank charges, and a deposit to replenish a shortage, which the lawyer must report to the bar's lawyer regulation department immediately — and the rules on interest, on funds in dispute and on the Interest on Trust Accounts program. Rule 5-1.2 is the records and procedures a lawyer must keep, and the trust accounting a lawyer must be able to produce.
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