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According to the California State Auditor, “An attorney was the subject of 28 complaints over a five-year period, one of which was initiated  after a bank notified the State Bar that the attorney failed to maintain funds that were received for a client in a client trust account. Over this period, 10 of the 28 complaints involving the attorney alleged client trust account violations. At the time the State Bar reviewed the violation reported by the bank, the attorney had two other disciplinary matters open, one of which alleged a client trust account violation. Although State Bar intake staff noted the open investigations in their review of the violation reported by the bank, they did not forward the complaint to be investigated by the staff who were investigating the other open complaints. Instead, the State Bar closed the complaint as de minimis.”