The Oklahoma Bar Journal February 2023

Ms. Couch awards Brian Hermanson the 2022 Klein/Brown Presidents Award at the OBA Annual Meeting.

breakthrough for IOLTA – a rule change that ensures interest rate comparability for IOLTA bank accounts. This change will make a tremendous difference in the foundation’s capacity to provide legal representation and aid to Oklahomans in need. Thank you, Brian, for your past and continued leadership and guidance with IOLTA. Your vital contributions empower legal ser vices programs in Oklahoma.

the OBF during the tumultuous time that IOLTA shifted from a voluntary program to a man datory one. As past president, he worked to expand the OBF’s Fellows Program (now called the Partners Program), which encour ages all lawyers in Oklahoma to donate annually to the foundation. Recently, Mr. Hermanson has returned to the OBF’s Board of Trustees and worked effectively on the team that achieved a great

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