MATTER OF INTEREST ON TRUST ACCOUNTS

Nos. 51182, 60350 and 60351.

402 So.2d 389 (1981)

In the Matter of INTEREST ON TRUST ACCOUNTS.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied, Opinion Clarified August 5, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell Carlisle, President, Florida Bar Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, and Henry G. Zapruder of Cohen & Uretz, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Florida Bar Foundation, Inc. and sixty-seven active members of The Florida Bar.

John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Tallahassee, Leonard H. Gilbert, President, Tampa, Samuel S. Smith, President-elect, Miami Beach, and John A. Boggs, Asst. Staff Counsel, Tallahassee, of The Florida Bar, Bill Wagner of Wagner, Cunningham, Vaughan and McLaughlin, Tampa, Chairman for the Florida Bar Integration Rule and Bylaws Committee, and Ben H. Wilkinson, Chairman, Special Committee, Tallahassee, on behalf of the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar.

Roderick N. Petrey and Randall C. Berg, Jr. of the Florida Justice Institute, Inc., Miami, on behalf of: American Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause of Florida, Florida Audubon Society, Florida Clearinghouse on Criminal Justice, Florida Conference of NAACP Branches, Florida Institutional Legal Services, Inc., Florida Legal Services, Inc., Florida Public Defender Association, Governor's Commission on Advocacy for Persons With Developmental Disabilities, Project Directors' Association, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Southern Legal Counsel, Inc.

Sara-Ann Determan, Chairperson, Special Committee on Public Interest Practice, Washington, D.C., on behalf of: the American Bar Association.

L. Orin Slagle, Dean, Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, on behalf of: Florida State University College of Law, the University of Florida, Spessard L. Holland Law Center, Nova University for the Study of Law, and Stetson University College of Law.

Robert M. Curtis, Fort Lauderdale, Henry P. Trawick, Jr., Sarasota, and Gerald L. Brown, Pensacola, Responding to Petition.


ENGLAND, Justice.

This proceeding emerges from the Court's 1978 program designed to generate interest on lawyers' trust accounts for the improvement of the administration of justice in Florida.1 The original plan, permitting voluntary participation by lawyers and law firms, was once amended to meet technical requirements of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and to accommodate The Florida Bar's request that we remove a requirement that...

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