If the conversation recorded on this YouTube video is real, then it is shocking. In it, a male lawyer seeks to convince his female client to give him oral sex — urging, "30 seconds of pleasure, big deal!" This appears to be the same recording described in these 2006 New York Post and New York Press stories. According to these reports, when she first visited the lawyer’s Wall Street office about a traffic case, he asked her for sex. On a subsequent visit, she wore a recording device. When the Manhattan DA declined to prosecute the lawyer, she brought a civil suit against him seeking $70 million in damages. No word on the status of the case.
My favorite part of this, I think, are the misunderstandings of their respective positions.
The lawyer says early in the tape "You think I couldn’t pick up the phone and have 20 beautiful women in here?" Correct answer: No, you’re a traffic lawyer getting me out of a ticket and begging me for a blow job.
Ah, But she’s a gem, too. She’s suing the dude for $70 million dollars. Is she likely to get even a significant fraction of that? Correct answer: No, you’re suing a traffic lawyer! These ain’t the richest lawyers. Even if he has malpractice insurance, 1) his malpractice premiums and limits are probably very low because not much is at stake in traffic cases, and 2) this isn’t really a malpractice case anyway. It’s a tort case, that might not be covered by this lawyer’s insurance.
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