Practice Pointer: No “Horsing Around”

The Georgia Supreme Court has disbarred an attorney admitted in 1964 for this conduct with a client who was in his office to pick up a settlement check.

When the client asked what she owed him in fees, he responded

With or without a blow job?

He came around the desk and said

Now it’s time for the blow job.

He then exposed himself to her and touched her breasts. She pushed him away and as she was leaving, he said

You’re not going to give me a blow job. You’re no fun.

She called the cops. He said he was “horsing around” and was impotent due to prostate cancer. He thought the client knew he was “just kidding.”

The court ordered disbarment as the appropriate sanction. (Mike Frisch)