Wednesday, December 3, 2025

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Hybrid

United States

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  • Ashley Mendoza
  • Dahlia French
  • Pauleen Consebido
  • Kara Hart
  • Ronald Nair
  • Michelle Ross
  • Alicia Kinsman
  • Sheila Hayre
  • Adriana Podesta
  • Dianne Evans
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Elm City Club
155 Elm Street, New Haven, CT
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Virtual Via Zoom
(Please register to receive Zoom link)

IOLTA Fund

Speakers

Elizabeth Rowe, Connecticut Statewide Grievance Committee
Suzanne B. Sutton, Cohen and Wolf, PC

About the Program:

As USCIS transitions to electronic fee payments, this program will address inquiries regarding how to navigate these changes in accordance with applicable Connecticut ethics rules.

Topics:

  • May a lawyer pay a client’s filing fee from an IOLTA account via ACH transaction or debit card?
  • If a lawyer pays a client’s filing fee via personal credit card or law firm credit card, at what point may the lawyer withdraw funds from the IOLTA account to reimburse the filing fee?
  • How does a lawyer keep an appropriate record of an electronic filing fee disbursement from an IOLTA account?
  • May a lawyer pass to the client the bank fees or credit card fees associated with the e-filing transaction?
  • May a lawyer keep the credit card rewards or rebates generated in paying the client’s filing fees by the lawyer’s or law firm’s credit card?

CLE Credit

1.0 CT CLE (Ethics)


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Contact

Member Service Center
Email: msc@ctbar.org
Phone: (860)223-4400