Law Practice
Jan. 15, 2014
State Bar may begin auditing lawyers' client trust accounts
State Bar leaders largely supported the idea of conducting random audits of lawyers' and law firms' client trust accounts. If approved, initial audits likely would be "probing questionnaires," bar CEO Joseph L. Dunn said.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
NEWPORT BEACH - The State Bar may soon begin to audit lawyers' client trust accounts.
During a Friday planning meeting, several members of the bar's Board of Trustees endorsed the idea in principle. "We believe there probably are problems" in some lawyers' trust accounts, ranging "from accounting errors to theft," said Trustee Heather Linn Rosing, who led a discu...
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