Attorney Faces Charges Of Improper Importuning Of Client

The North Carolina State Bar has filed a disciplinary complaint that alleges misconduct by a court-appointed attorney who had represented a client for approximately six months. It is alleged that the attorney throughout the representation “made inappropriate comments of a sexual nature to [the client], both in person and by text messages” and “made it known to [the client] that he wanted to have sex with her.”

Unlike the case from West Virginia that we reported on last week, it is further alleged that the attorney “tried to touch [the client] in a sexual manner and tried to convince [her] to have sex with him. ” In the West Virginia case, the attorney and client had not met in person.

(Mike Frisch)