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PETITION BY THE MASS. BAR ASS'N & THE BOSTON BAR ASS'N

395 Mass. 1 (1985)

478 N.E.2d 715

PETITION BY THE MASSACHUSETTS BAR ASSOCIATION AND THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

May 23, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Hoffman & Edward J. Smith for Massachusetts Bar Association.

William F. Looney, Jr., Katherine S. McHugh and John H. Mason for Boston Bar Association & another.

Patricia A. Pap for Legal Services for Cape Cod and Islands, Inc., amicus curiae.

Allan G. Rodgers for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, amicus curiae.

Kenneth D. Lipman & Michael E. Alexander for Southeastern Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation, amicus curiae.

Patricia A. Bobba for Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts, amicus curiae.

Lonnie A. Powers & Bart J. Gordon for Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation, amicus curiae.

Daniel L. Siegel for Merrimack Valley Legal Services, Inc., amicus curiae.

Raymond J. Kenney, Jr., Roy A. Hammer & Malcolm L. Davidson for Massachusetts Bar Foundation, Inc., amicus curiae.

Allan G. Rodgers for various legal services programs, amici curiae, submitted a memorandum.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

BY THE COURT.

In June, 1984, the Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA) and the Boston Bar Association (BBA)1 petitioned this court to establish an Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts (IOLTA) program through an amendment to Canon 9, DR 9-102 of Rule 3:07 of the Rules of the Supreme Judicial Court.2 See Appendix, infra. The petitioners further requested the court...

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