Conn. Practice Book § 2-28 (2026)

Sec. 2-28 (e) Any such agreement shall not be cancelled by a financial institution except upon thirty days written notice to the Statewide Grievance Commit- tee. The Statewide Grievance Committee shall establish rules governing approval and termina- tion of approved status for financial institutions, and shall publish annually a list of approved insti- tutions. Any such agreement shall apply to all branches of the financial institution in Connecticut and shall not be cancelled except upon thirty days notice in writing to the Statewide Grievance Com- mittee. (f) The financial institution shall report to the Statewide Grievance Committee within seven business days from the date of such presentation, any instrument presented against insufficient funds on any trust funds account unless funds in an amount sufficient to cover the deficiency in the account are deposited within one business day of the presentation of the instrument. The report shall be accompanied by a copy of the instrument. (g) The Statewide Grievance Committee may delegate to the statewide bar counsel the authority to investigate overdraft notifications and deter- mine that no misconduct has occurred or that no further action is warranted. Any determination that misconduct may have occurred and a grievance complaint should be initiated, unless such com- plaint is premised upon the failure of an attorney to file an explanation of an overdraft, shall be made by the Statewide Grievance Committee. (h) Upon receipt of notification of an overdraft, the Statewide Grievance Committee, its counsel or disciplinary counsel may request that the attor- ney produce such books of account and state- ments of reconciliation, and any other records required to be maintained pursuant to Section 2- 27 (b) for review, examination or audit. Failure of the attorney to respond to inquiries of the State- wide Grievance Committee, its counsel, or disci- plinary counsel, or to produce the requested books of account and statements of reconciliation or other records shall be grounds for disciplinary counsel to file an application for an interim sus- pension in accordance with the provisions of Sec- tion 2-42. (i) Every attorney practicing or admitted to prac- tice in Connecticut shall, as a condition thereof, be conclusively presumed to have authorized the reporting and production requirements of this section. Where an attorney qualifies as execu- tor of a will or as trustee or successor fiduciary, the attorney fiduciary shall have a reasonable time after qualification to bring preexisting trust accounts into compliance with the provisions of this section. (P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 27A.1.) (Amended June 24, 2002, to take effect July 1, 2003; May 14, 2003, effective date 136 changed to Oct. 1, 2003; Sept. 30, 2003, effective date changed to Jan. 1, 2004; amended June 26, 2006, to take effect Jan. 1, 2007.) Sec. 2-28A. Attorney Advertising; Manda- tory Filing (a) Any attorney who advertises services to the public through any media, electronic or otherwise, or through written or recorded communication pur- suant to Rule 7.2 of the Rules of Professional Conduct shall file a copy of each such advertise- ment or communication with the Statewide Griev- ance Committee either prior to or concurrently with the attorney’s first dissemination of the adver- tisement or written or recorded communication, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) herein. The materials shall be filed in a format prescribed by the Statewide Grievance Commit- tee, which may require them to be filed electroni- cally. Any such submission in a foreign language must include an accurate English language trans- lation. The filing shall consist of the following: (1) A copy of the advertisement or communi- cation in the form or forms in which it is to be disseminated (e.g., videotapes, DVDs, audio- tapes, compact discs, print media, photographs of outdoor advertising); (2) A transcript, if the advertisement or commu- nication is in video or audio format; (3) A list of domain names used by the attorney primarily to offer legal services, which shall be updated quarterly; (4) A sample envelope in which the written com- munication will be enclosed, if the communication is to be mailed; (5) A statement listing all media in which the advertisement or communication will appear, the anticipated frequency of use of the advertisement or communication in each medium in which it will appear, and the anticipated time period during which the advertisement or communication will be used. (b) The filing requirements of subsection (a) do not extend to any of the following materials: (1) An advertisement in the public media that contains only, in whole or in part, the following information, provided the information is not false or misleading: (A) The name of the lawyer or law firm, a list- ing of lawyers associated with the firm, office addresses and telephone numbers, office and telephone service hours, fax numbers, website and email addresses and domain names, and a designation such as ‘‘attorney’’ or ‘‘law firm’’; (B) Date of admission to the Connecticut bar and any other bars and a listing of federal courts

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(2) An advertisement in a telephone directory; (3) A listing or entry in a regularly published law list; (4) An announcement card stating new or changed associations, new offices, or similar changes relating to an attorney or firm, or a tomb- stone professional card; (5) A communication sent only to: (A) Existing or former clients; (B) Other attorneys or professionals; business organizations including trade groups; not-for- profit organizations; governmental bodies; and/or (C) Members of a not-for-profit organization that meets the following conditions: the primary pur- poses of the organization do not include the ren- dition of legal services; the recommending, fur- nishing, paying for or educating persons regarding legal services is incidental and reasonably related to the primary purposes of the organization; the organization does not derive a financial benefit from the rendition of legal services by an attorney; and the person for whom the legal services are rendered, and not the organization, is recognized as the client of the attorney who is recommended, furnished, or paid for by the organization. (6) Communication that is requested by a pro- spective client. (7) The contents of an attorney’s Internet web- site that appears under any of the domain names submitted pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsec- tion (a). (c) If requested by the Statewide Grievance Committee, an attorney shall promptly submit information to substantiate statements or repre- sentations made or implied in any advertisement in the public media and/or written or recorded communications. 137 (d) The statewide bar counsel shall review advertisements and communications filed pursu- ant to this section that have been selected for such review on a random basis. If after such review the statewide bar counsel determines that an adver- tisement or communication does not comply with the Rules of Professional Conduct, the statewide bar counsel shall in writing advise the attorney responsible for the advertisement or communica- tion of the noncompliance and shall attempt to resolve the matter with such attorney. If the mat- ter is not resolved to the satisfaction of the state- wide bar counsel, he or she shall forward the advertisement or communication and a statement describing the attempt to resolve the matter to the Statewide Grievance Committee for review. If, after reviewing the advertisement or communi- cation, the Statewide Grievance Committee deter- mines that it violates the Rules of Professional Conduct, it shall forward a copy of its file to the disciplinary counsel and direct the disciplinary counsel to file a presentment against the attorney in the Superior Court. (e) The procedure set forth in subsection (d) shall apply only to advertisements and communi- cations that are reviewed as part of the random review process. If an advertisement or communi- cation comes to the attention of the statewide bar counsel other than through that process, it shall be handled pursuant to the grievance procedure that is set forth in Section 2-29 et seq. (f) The materials required to be filed by this section shall be retained by the Statewide Griev- ance Committee for a period of one year from the date of their filing, unless, at the expiration of the one year period, there is pending before the Statewide Grievance Committee, a reviewing committee, or the court a proceeding concerning such materials, in which case the materials that are the subject of the proceeding shall be retained until the expiration of the proceeding or for such other period as may be prescribed by the State- wide Grievance Committee. (g) Except for records filed in court in connec- tion with a presentment brought pursuant to sub- section (d), records maintained by the statewide bar counsel, the Statewide Grievance Committee and/or the Disciplinary Counsel’s Office pursuant to this section shall not be public. Nothing in this rule shall prohibit the use or consideration of such records in any subsequent disciplinary or client security fund proceeding and such records shall be available in such proceedings to a judge of the Superior Court or to the standing committee on recommendations for admission to the bar, to dis- ciplinary counsel, to the statewide bar counsel or assistant bar counsel, or, with the consent of the

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