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Attorney Services Fund Annual Report Released

Image of a circle graph showing a breakdown of 2015 Attorney Services Fund expenditures

Attorney Services Fund fiscal year 2015 expenditures by percentage.

Image of a circle graph showing a breakdown of 2015 Attorney Services Fund expenditures

Attorney Services Fund fiscal year 2015 expenditures by percentage.

More than $9 million in fees collected from lawyers, including registration fees, supported attorney services programs in Ohio during the last fiscal year.

The figure comes from the Ohio Supreme Court Attorney Services Fund 2015 annual report published today. The funding comes from attorney registration, late registration, reinstatement fees, and other sources as outlined in the Rules for the Government of the Bar.

The Supreme Court allocated $9.3 million from the fund at the beginning of fiscal year 2015, July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, and expenditures included:

Grants totaling more than $1 million were also provided to the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation to support legal services for low-income Ohioans, and to the Ohio Lawyers Assistance Program to provide intervention services to lawyers, judges, and law students who suffer from alcoholism, substance abuse, or mental illness.

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