Court Opinion

ID: 9606821
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 02:52:48.70547+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:07:19.978059
License: Public Domain

OPALA, Justice,
dissenting.
This tempest-in-a-teapot factual backdrop makes this case unfit as a vehicle for today’s message of warning that (a) yesteryear’s sexual law-office games will no longer be tolerated and (b) the Bar’s disciplinary cognizance may indeed focus on a male lawyer’s display of excessive macho in the context of an attorney-client relationship. I would resist the temptation by administering a private reprimand and deferring the court’s sweeping pronouncement on a new, more sensitive, “gender-inoffensive” professional etiquette to be followed by the practicing bar.