Somebody’s about to get disbarred! The only real question is, will he fall on his sword, or is he going to turn on his client before the end?
While it’s fun to say that disbarment only happens if the attorney is caught standing above a corpse with a bloody knife in his hand, in reality the bar association takes a very, very dim view of lawyers who do stuff without the permission of their clients, and/or lawyers who defraud their clients. If you are so completely stupid as to make it seem that you have done either, your licence to practice law is pretty much doomed.
