Katia Garrett is executive director of the D.C. Bar Foundation, the largest private funder of civil legal services in D.C. The foundation gave out about $5 million in grants last year to help aid groups give free legal representation to the poor. The foundation recently announced that it had teamed up with BB&T bank to create a program that will let Washington-area lawyers donate the interest generated by their clients’ escrow accounts to legal aid agencies. It’s the sixth such bank partnership for the foundation.

How is the program with BB&T going to help?