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When is the attorney trust account certification period?
September 1 – October 31 each year.
If I/my firm opens a new trust account in, say March, may I enter it then?
Absolutely! Individual attorney certifications are not tied to trust account information so you can update trust account information any time of year.
I entered trust account information but some attorneys in the firm are getting reminders that they have not completed their annual certifications.
Entering trust account information is completely separate from individual attorney certifications. Each attorney (or his/her assistant) logs in and submits his or her annual certification. They only select their firm name, but do not enter trust account information.
There are several reasons for this, but the main reason is that we value the security of your trust account information. We assign firm administrator passwords to login with to enter trust account information so that we can make sure people are using secure passwords and not a password such as wareagle1 or rolltide1! It is also so that you only have to enter trust account information once unless you change financial institutions or open new accounts.
I do not have a firm administrator password.
Email us
and we will create a password for you.
My password does not work.
Email us
to make sure you are using the correct password and that we have the correct email address for you.
I am trying to enter my trust account number, but it says it is already there.
Make sure you are entering your account number and not the bank routing number. Your account number is usually the last series of the three series of numbers along the bottom of your check. That error means that one person who has an account at your bank entered THEIR routing number instead of their account number!
I am entering the account number, but the system will not take it.
Does your trust account number start with zero? If so, leave off the leading zero(es) and start with first number OTHER than zero.
I entered my trust account number but do not see it.
When you press the Submit button after entering your account number your account information will appear at the top of the page.
I do not remember the date my account was opened.
That is okay. That information is optional so you do not have to enter the date opened.
I only have one IOLTA account, but it is asking me to enter another.
If you only have one trust account and successfully entered the information you can log out. The account entry form still shows because a number of law firms have multiple trust accounts and need to enter more than one.