In-state tuition will be offered to all non-resident students at the University of Wyoming College of Law, its board of trustees decided last month.

Equal Justice Wyoming, in cooperation with the Wyoming Access to Justice Commission, launched the program at the Laramie County Courthouse in March. The groups then brought the volunteer attorney program to Casper in November.

The Equal Justice Wyoming Foundation received funds from Bank of America as a term of a national settlement with the Department of Justice. The settlement distributed funds to IOLTA organizations, including EJWF, to be used to design, develop, and fund effective projects to provide “foreclosure prevention legal assistance and community redevelopment legal assistance.” EJWF is soliciting proposals from legal service providers for projects that provide foreclosure prevention legal assistance and/or community redevelopment legal assistance.

The Wyoming State Bar is pleased to provide this FREE downloadable Trust Account Handbook, which has been prepared by the Office of Bar Counsel as a guide for both new and experienced lawyers with trust account questions. Our purpose is to provide you with the basic rules regarding trust accounts and highlight areas that may provide assistance in the exercise of your best professional judgment regarding a myriad of issues that may arise with opening, maintaining and record keeping for trust accounts.

The Wyoming Supreme Court issued an Order repealing the existing Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure and adopting the proposed rules submitted by the Civil Division of the Permanent Rules Advisory Committee. The new rules will become effective March 1, 2017.