Civil rights attorney Gloria Allred is facing a preliminary investigation by the California State Bar, one of her former clients said. Kyle Hunter, a television weather reporter, said in a written statement that he has been “notified by The State Bar of California that they are investigating Ms. Allred.” Hunter hired Allred to represent him in a failed discrimination lawsuit against CBS in which he accused the network of passing him over for jobs and instead hiring reporters “cut from the same blond, attractive, buxom mold.” Hunter said he is providing his “complete cooperation” to the State Bar and “will continue to do so.