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MATTER OF OLCHOWSKI

SJC-12730.

485 Mass. 807 (2020)

IN THE MATTER OF GREGORY M. OLCHOWSKI.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 1, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen Mulligan ( Kristyn M. Kelley also present) for Massachusetts IOLTA committee.

Timothy J. Casey , Assistant Attorney General, for Treasurer and Receiver General.

Robert M. Daniszewski , Assistant Bar Counsel, was present but did not argue.

Michael J. Serduck , for the respondent, was present but did not argue.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Karen D. O'Toole for Massachusetts Clients' Security Board & another.

Jeffrey D. Woolf for Board of Bar Overseers.

Mary K. Ryan , Micah W. Miller , Martin W. Healy , Thomas J. Carey, Jr. , & Francis C. Morrissey for Boston Bar Association & others.

Georgia D. Katsoulomitis , Jacquelynne Bowman , Jonathan Mannina , Elizabeth A. Soule , George Weber , Susan Nagl , Richard Dubois , Elizabeth Matos , John A. Froio , Jay McManus , Kathleen B. Boundy , Cathy Costanzo , & Janine Solomon for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute & others.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

The question presented in this case concerns the proper disposition of unidentified client funds on deposit in an Interest on Lawyers' Trust Account (IOLTA or IOLTA account): should they be remitted to the Commonwealth's general fund under the abandoned property statute, G. L. c. 200A, or to the IOLTA committee pursuant to this court...

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