Attorney John McCann's letter in the August 26 edition of the Law Tribune ("Waterbury Law Firm Secretary Accused of Stealing $1 Million") suggests a two-tier (three, really) approach to protecting client trust fund accounts. While he is correct that targeted, rather than random, audits of law firms by state bar officials might be more efficacious, I don't think that it is either good policy or likely to happen.
When then-Chief Justice William Sullivan announced that Connecticut was going to follow the six or seven other states with random audit programs, much attention was given to the profile of the typical offenders and whether we could or should focus on them, stretching our limited investigative and enforcement dollars by "fishing where the fish are." We decided against it.
