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kellinator ([personal profile] kellinator) wrote2003-09-18 05:29 pm

because [livejournal.com profile] alanator asked...

Here, according to Howard W. Brill in the Santa Clara Law Journal, is "Sex and the Client: Ten Reasons to Just Say No!"

1). The lawyer may be censured, reprimanded, suspended, or disbarred.
2). The lawyer may be denied admission to the practice of law in another state.
3). The lawyer may be sued for malpractice, outrage, fraud, or RICO.
4). The lawyer's conduct may be publicly disclosed.
5). The lawyer may lose fees or be required to pay the cost of the disciplinary proceedings.
6). The attorney may be disqualified from representation.
7). The lawyer may be assaulted by a third party.
8). The client's case may be hampered, impaired, or lost.
9). The client may allege ineffective assistance of counsel.
10). Four millenia of Western culture teach that sexual activity outside of marriage is immoral and to be discouraged.

I STILL don't know why you need an article to tell you this...

[identity profile] tyrantmouth.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Santa Clara? As in, Santa Clara, CA? That's the county I live in. Nice. Remind me never to need representation here. Sheesh.

[identity profile] kellinator.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The mind boggles...

[identity profile] printemps.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That totally cracks me up! First of all the whole idea that you'd need an article to tell you that. But more than that is the fact that they were going along all nice and legal-minded for the first nine reasons, and then it seems like they just couldn't come up with one more legal reason, so they had to fall back on morality. That amused me for some reason. ;)

[identity profile] kellinator.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it had all these footnotes telling stories about lawyers who got the shit kicked out of them by jealous spouses...

[identity profile] bouncepogo.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't that count as prostitution, since one party is being paid?

And what about, "You would have to pay an insane amount of child support where she to be impregnated."

[identity profile] kellinator.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of the anecdotes recounted in the footnotes were really amusing... Apparently, there are a lot of stupid lawyers out there.
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[personal profile] wolvy 2003-09-18 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
no way!

[identity profile] kentrebor.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"10). Four millenia of Western culture teach that sexual activity outside of marriage is immoral and to be discouraged." i must be a very immoral person...hehehe...i'm not married and i've had sex..oopps...hehehe...

[identity profile] daraflower.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
number 10 is a steaming pile of bullshit.