Rule 1.19 of the District of Columbia Rules of Professional Conduct
requires that "(a) Funds coming into the possession of a lawyer that
are required by these Rules to be segregated from the lawyer’s
own funds...shall be deposited in one or more specially designated accounts
at a financial institution…(b) The accounts required pursuant to
paragraph (a) shall be maintained only in institutions that are listed
as ’D.C. Bar Approved Depositories’ on a list maintained
for this purpose by the Board on Professional Responsibility."
As of July 2009, the following financial institutions have filed the
requisite Trust Account Notification Undertaking with the Board on Professional
Responsibility and are certified as approved institutions:
- Access National Bank
- Adams National Bank
- Alliance Bank
- American Bank
- Bank of America
- Bank of Georgetown
- Branch, Banking & Trust
- Capital Bank, N.A.
- Cardinal Bank
- Century National Bank
- Chain Bridge Bank, N.A.
- Chase Manhattan Bank
- Chevy Chase Savings Bank, FSB
- Citibank, F.S.B.
- City First Bank of D.C.
- Colombo Bank
- Comerica Bank
- Commerce Bank, N.A.
- Commerce Bank/Pennsylvania, N.A.
- Congressional Bank
- Esquire Bank
- Fidelity & Trust Bank
- First Bank National Association
- First Citizens Bank & Trust Company
- First Liberty National Bank
- First National Bank of Omaha
- HSBC Bank USA, N.A.
- Industrial Bank of Washington
- Independence Federal Savings Bank
- John Marshall Bank
- Main St. Bank
- M&T Bank
- Monument Bank
- National Capital Bank of Washington
- OBA Bank
- PNC Bank
- Presidential Savings Bank, FSB
- Providence Savings & Loan, F.A.
- Rappahannock National Bank
- SunTrust
- United Bank
- U.S. Trust Company, National Association
- Wachovia Bank
- WashingtonFirst Bank
