Massachusetts IOLTA Program

09/03/2026

Massachusetts lawyers - is managing your IOLTA and other trust accounts stressing you out? This free trust account training can help! Tuesday, 9/8 @ 2pm. Register here:https://bbopublic.blob.core.windows.net/web/f/trustaccount.pdf

🌟 Are you a newly admitted lawyer or need to brush up on IOLTA regulations and best practices? Sign up for a free one-hour training webinar co-hosted by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers and the Boston Bar Foundation on September 8th from 2:00-3:00 pm.

Register here ⬇️

https://bbopublic.blob.core.windows.net/web/f/trustaccount.pdf

09/02/2026

Massachusetts nonprofits - check out this great opportunity from Lawyers Clearinghouse to get help creating an AI policy that works for your organization👇

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already impacting businesses, nonprofits, and other institutions. It’s important that nonprofits of all sizes prepare for AI and develop policies and procedures for how to use AI and how to prevent its misuse.

Join us on October 21 for an AI Policies Consultation to learn more about creating an AI policy tailored to your organization.

This event will start with a one-hour workshop, followed by private consultations with volunteer attorneys who will review how key aspects of an AI Policy would apply to your nonprofit and provide a sample form.

Learn more and register*: https://bit.ly/oct21aipolicies

*Note: All nonprofits are welcome to register for the one-hour workshop, while consultation spots are limited to established 501(c)(3) nonprofits operating in Massachusetts.

08/31/2026

Reminder for : Detailed instructions and resources for submitting unclaimed or unidentified funds to the Committee in accordance with Rule 1.15 are available on our website here:

🔗 https://maiolta.org/for-attorneys/undistributable-iolta-funds

Provides state rules and regulations regarding Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts (IOLTA).

08/27/2026

🌟 Are you a newly admitted lawyer or need to brush up on IOLTA regulations and best practices? Sign up for a free one-hour training webinar co-hosted by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers and the Boston Bar Foundation on September 8th from 2:00-3:00 pm.

Register here ⬇️

https://bbopublic.blob.core.windows.net/web/f/trustaccount.pdf

08/21/2026

❓ Attorneys: Worried about insuring a large balance in your account? Read our blog post about maximizing coverage for your client funds here ⬇️

https://www.maiolta.org/blog/123-insurance-issues-for-large-balance-iolta-funds

08/17/2026

✨Thank you Greylock Federal Credit Union for being an IOLTA Leadership Institution!✨

Leadership Institutions support our communities by offering higher interest rates for lawyers' IOLTA accounts. The Massachusetts IOLTA Program uses the interest earned on IOLTA accounts to fund critically needed help for people facing urgent, everyday legal problems like preventing unlawful evictions, escaping domestic violence, protecting veterans' benefits, and allowing seniors to age with dignity.

Massachusetts lawyers - you can generate more money to support civil legal aid and access to justice programs by keeping your IOLTA accounts at a Leadership Institution like Greylock Federal Credit Union. Learn more: https://www.maiolta.org/blog/116-attention-massachusetts-attorneys-where-you-bank-matters

08/13/2026

📝 Massachusetts attorneys: Reminder to register new IOLTA accounts via our online form—no need to mail in a paper copy anymore.

Access it here:
🔗 https://www.maiolta.org/for-attorneys/register-new-account

08/12/2026

The Summer 2026 issue of Legal Aid Link is out now! Catch up on the latest news, updates, and inspiring work from legal aid organizations across Massachusetts.

📰 Read it here: https://loom.ly/je4n8Bo

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08/11/2026

The Massachusetts Bar Foundation is a critical partner in the efforts to ensure people all across the Commonwealth have access to legal help when they need it, regardless of their ability to pay. Read more about all the MBF does and the amazing staff, volunteers, and supporters who make it happen👇

Thanks to the generosity, partnership, and dedication of our MBF community, together we have made an extraordinary impact on thousands of Massachusetts residents in need of legal assistance. Our 2025 Gratitude Report celebrates the fellows, donors, volunteers, grantees, and partners who make this work possible, and the collective impact we achieved together.

Take a look at what your commitment helped make possible by visiting our website.

08/05/2026

The Massachusetts IOLTA Program is proud that IOLTA funds support Community Legal Aid's excellent work providing critical legal help throughout Central and Western Massachusetts! Be sure to check out their July 2026 newsletter to see what CLA advocates have been up to lately👇

Community Legal Aid's July 2026 Newsletter is out now! READ ALL ABOUT:

📝 How one former client is using her story to advance CLA's mission as a member of the organization's Board of Directors!

👋 How CLA is bidding farewell to beloved longtime leader Jen Dieringer, and introducing two new CLA Managing Attorneys who are taking the reins in Franklin and Hampshire Counties.

🏘️ How CLA will use new state funding for fair housing work to continue combatting discrimination and enforcing housing laws across the region

AND MORE!