If a lawyer is presented sexually explicit emails and social media messages in a consultation for sexual harassment, at what point does the lawyer tell me they can't represent me because it's from their client?
Midwest,
Got a former coworker sending sexually explicit emails and social media messages to me and my mother and my brother. Emails are from several email addresses, all including his name, and the messages are from an alt account which I and my family have blocked.
I know who the person's lawyer is. And this former coworker is quite litigious. If I made an appointment saying I was sexually harassed at work and then presented his lawyer with all of the emails, from his clients personal email account and others with the same/similar name, as well as the messages from the alt accounts (dude copied and pasted from the emails into the social media messages verbatim so it's obviously the same person)
Former coworker has contacted my job and my church through their websites and under Contact Information, used my name and my email address as the person submitting the salacious messages
--at what point would the lawyer have to tell me that they cannot represent me because of a conflict of interest? Would the lawyer do anything/say anything to their client?
Is this just some kind of movie scenario that wouldn't do anything or work?
I've made a formal complaint with the sheriff and a deputy called the former co-worker who said they knew their rights of free speech and had asked their lawyer if they were in the clear already.
I get about 4-7 emails a week and have for 2 months. "Luckily" most of the emails are the exact same but he fucks up the formatting and copies himself on them. So I'll get 4 in a row, over an hour's time, but with different formatting or with spell check actually being used for the final email.