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ount, and failed to cooperate with the Director); (indefinitely suspending an attorney with no right to petition for reinstatement for 2 years when the attorney neglected two clients, made misrepresentations to clients, and failed to cooperate in the disciplinary investigation or appear before the court in the disciplinary case); -75 (Minn. 1993) (indefinitely suspending an attorney with no right to petition for reinstatement for 18 months for neglect of two clients, trust account violations, an

Additionally, “even unintentional misappropriation as the result of poor accounting practices may be grounds for discipline.”

The misuse of a trust account is serious and will almost invariably result in a lengthy suspension or disbarment, Overboe, d at 868 (), and the misappropriation of client funds is particularly serious misconduct, usually warranting “disbarment absent clear and convincing evidence of substantial mitigating factors,” (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted).

(internal citations omitted).

(suspension for two years for neglect of two client matters and failure to cooperate with the Director); (suspension for 18 months for neglect of a single client matter, failure to communicate, and failure to cooperate with the Director).

The director requests that Knutson be indefinitely suspended, citing for support and in which attorneys were indefinitely suspended with minimum suspension periods (one year for Jensen; 18 months for Kinnunen) for similar infractions to those at issue here.

We have said that “[w]hen an attorney commits misconduct and then refuses to cooperate with the ensuing investigation, indefinite suspension is ‘a reasonable and necessary sanction, especially where respondent has offered no evidence of mitigating circumstances.’ ” ().

We have said that "[w]hen an attorney commits misconduct and then refuses to cooperate with the ensuing investigation, indefinite suspension is `a reasonable and necessary sanction, especially where respondent has offered no evidence of mitigating circumstances.'" ().

When an attorney commits misconduct and then refuses to cooperate with the ensuing investigation, indefinite suspension is “a reasonable and necessary sanction, especially where respondent has offered no evidence of mitigating circumstances.”

See, (neglect of client matters, misrepresentation, trust account violations, misappropriation of client funds, and failure to cooperate with disciplinary proceedings warranted indefinite suspension for a minimum of two years); (neglect of client matters, failure to properly maintain trust account, and failure to cooperate with disciplinary proceedings warranted indefinite suspension for a minimum of 18 months); (neglect of two client matters and failure to cooperate with discipl