Conn. Practice Book § 2-27B (2026)

Sec. 2-27B. Enforcement of Attorney Regis- tration and Minimum Continuing Legal Edu- cation; Administrative Suspension (a) The Statewide Grievance Committee shall send a notice to each attorney who has not regis- tered pursuant to Section 2-27 (d), or who has not completed minimum continuing legal education pursuant to Section 2-27A, that the attorney’s license to practice law in this state will be referred to the Superior Court for an administrative sus- pension of the attorney’s license to practice law in this state unless by December 31 of the year in which the notice is sent such attorney provides proof to the Statewide Grievance Committee that

© Copyrighted by the Secretary of the State of the State of Connecticut SUPERIOR COURT—GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 2-28 for the noncomplying year the attorney has regis- tered or completed minimum continuing legal edu- cation, or is exempt from minimum continuing legal education. The Statewide Grievance Com- mittee shall submit to the clerk of the Superior Court for the Hartford Judicial District a list of attorneys who did not provide proof of compliance with attorney registration or minimum continuing legal education, or exemption from minimum con- tinuing legal education. Upon order of the court, the attorneys so listed and referred to the clerk shall be deemed administratively suspended from the practice of law in this state until such time as compliance has occurred and proof of same provided to the Statewide Grievance Committee, which suspension shall be effective upon publica- tion of the list in the Connecticut Law Journal. An administrative suspension of an attorney for failure to comply with attorney registration or mini- mum continuing legal education shall not be con- sidered discipline, but an attorney who is placed on administrative suspension for such failure shall be ineligible to practice law as an attorney admit- ted to practice in this state, and shall not be con- sidered in good standing pursuant to Section 2- 65 of these rules until such time as proof of compli- ance is provided to the Statewide Grievance Com- mittee. (b) An attorney aggrieved by an order placing the attorney on administrative suspension for fail- ing to comply with Section 2-27 (d) or 2-27A may make an application to the Superior Court to have the order vacated, by filing the application with the Superior Court for the Hartford Judicial District within thirty days of the date that the order is published, and mailing a copy of the same by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Statewide Grievance Committee. The application shall set forth the reasons why the application should be granted. The court shall schedule a hearing on the application, which shall be limited to whether good cause exists to vacate the sus- pension order. (c) The notice required by this section shall be sent by regular mail to the last address registered by the attorney pursuant to Section 2-26 and Sec- tion 2-27 (d) and to any email address on record with the Judicial Branch. (Adopted June 11, 2021, to take effect Jan. 1, 2022.) Sec. 2-28. Overdraft Notification (a) The terms used in this section are defined as follows: (1) ‘‘Financial institution’’ includes banks, sav- ings and loan associations, credit unions, savings banks and any other business or person which 135 accepts for deposit funds held in trust by attor- neys. (2) ‘‘Properly payable’’ refers to an instrument which, if presented in the normal course of busi- ness, is in a form requiring payment under law. (3) ‘‘Insufficient funds’’ refers to the status of an account that does not contain sufficient funds available to pay a properly payable instrument. (4) ‘‘Uncollected funds’’ refers to funds depos- ited in an account and available to be drawn upon but not yet deemed by the financial institution to have been collected. (b) Attorneys shall deposit all funds held in any fiduciary capacity in accounts clearly identified as ‘‘trust,’’ ‘‘client funds’’ or ‘‘escrow’’ accounts, referred to herein as ‘‘trust accounts,’’ and shall take all steps necessary to inform the depository institution of the purpose and identity of such accounts. Funds held in trust include funds held in any fiduciary capacity in connection with a rep- resentation in Connecticut, whether as trustee, agent, guardian, executor or otherwise. Where an attorney fiduciary has the right to draw by a properly payable instrument on such trust account in which the funds of more than one client are kept, such account shall be maintained only in financial institutions approved by the Statewide Grievance Committee. No such trust account in which the funds of more than one client are kept shall be maintained in any financial institution in Connecticut which does not file the agreement required by this section. Violation of this subsec- tion shall constitute misconduct. (c) Attorneys regularly maintaining funds in a fiduciary capacity shall register any account in which the funds of more than one client are kept with the Statewide Grievance Committee in accordance with Section 2-27 (d). (d) A financial institution shall be approved as a depository for attorney trust accounts only if it files with the Statewide Grievance Committee an agreement, in a form provided by the commit- tee, to report to the committee the fact that an instrument has been presented against an attor- ney trust account containing insufficient funds, irrespective of whether or not the instrument is honored. No report shall be required if funds in an amount sufficient to cover the deficiency in the trust account are deposited within one business day of the presentation of the instrument. No report shall be required in the case of an instru- ment presented and paid against uncollected funds.

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