Nov
28
Posted (Aram) in Ethics, United States on November-28-2007

Lawyers have many ethical rules to follow, and one of them in Wisconsin bars them from having sex with “current clients”. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in October that attorney Michael Inglimo did not violate that specific rule since he had sex with his client’s girlfriend during a threesome, and regulation bans only direct sex with the client.

Of particular note is how the judges describe a threesome:

Counts 1 and 2 relate to Attorney Inglimo’s representation of L.K in a criminal case between April 2000 and January 2001. During this representation in October 2000, Attorney Inglimo had sexual relations with L.K.’s girlfriend in L.K.’s presence and with L.K. also engaging in sexual relations with his girlfriend during the sexual encounter. The referee further found, however, that there was no evidence that during the encounter there was any intimate physical contact between Attorney Inglimo and L.K.

[Read the entire decision here]