Ethics

This Guy

I’ll assume you’ve already heard of former unknown attorney Aaron Schlossberg.

Aaron walked next door to grab some take out for lunch and now is the most famous lawyer on the internet.

 This is why.

 Appears though the investigative wing of the internet has discovered this isn’t Aaron’s first time expressing his views.

Since this quick trip next door to grab some food, Aaron’s landlord at his office kicked him out, the internet has destroyed his reputation, and he can’t even just take his racist self for a walk.

And there’s already been Bar Complaints.

If I’m the Bar, my response is “what can I do to this guy that he hasn’t already done to himself?

So is there an ethics violation?

Well there is the First Amendment. If this guy wants to stand in a restaurant and complain that America is not white and English enough, he can do that.

But he threatened to call ICE, claiming that because these workers were speaking Spanish they were illegally in America. He had no good faith basis to subject these people to possibly being detained, and therefore his call to ICE would be an act that could be false, dishonest, or contain misrepresentations.

 That’s a Rule 8.4 violation.

I think the Bar will send him a letter, and he will respond that he has a First Amendment right to say what he wants (he’s right), and that he never went forward with anything.

Aaron’s got bigger problems, that will live on forever on your computer screen. Standard mitigation for a Bar Complaint is that the lawyer has suffered other consequences of the misconduct. I think Aaron has met that standard, thankfully.