Credit: mrmohock/Adobe Stock OAE Random Audit Reveals Recordkeeping Issues, But Finds Attorney 'Cannot Be Held Wholly Responsible'
"Respondent claimed that he attempted to work with the attorneys whose clients were connected with the inactive balances, but that was 'a strategy that was, for the most part, unproductive due to respondent's lack of authority within the firm's management hierarchy,'" the letter said.
August 15, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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After a random audit revealed recordkeeping deficiencies in the books of a New Jersey law firm, including a $380,000 deficit, the attorney responsible for compliance received a reprimand that did not hold him solely responsible for the discrepancies.
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