For more than 40 years, a North Carolina State Bar program has provided that interest earned on lawyers’ trust funds be used to finance grants to provide needed legal services to countless North Carolinians. The program has provided essential funding for legal service entities throughout the state without the use of State funds. Recently, however,...
No longer is Georgia one of the handful of jurisdictions in the United States with no procedure to provide some measure of compensation to those who have been wrongfully convicted. The new legislation, effective July 1, 2025, is titled “Wrongful Conviction and Incarceration Compensation Act,” and is codified at O.C.G.A. §§ 17-22-1 –12. Prior to...