Why submit a Unified Report for 2009 registration?
Supreme Court Rule 756 requires “each lawyer” to report trust account and malpractice insurance information as part of the annual registration process. Consistent with that requirement, the Registration Form is structured to require each lawyer to answer questions related to those matters, and the ARDC’s registration software has been programmed to record a lawyer as registered only if those sections of his/her registration form have been completed. Nevertheless, since lawyer members and employees of a firm usually maintain the same trust account(s) and have the same malpractice insurance, some efficiencies can be accomplished within the requirements of the Rule by having this information transmitted in a unified way.
