An Update on Michael 'Three-Way' Inglimo

One of our favorite lawyers, Michael Inglimo, is back in the headlines. You may remember him from this post on the Volokh Conspiracy, linked to on ATL, which raised the following question:

Does “engaging in a three-way sexual encounter with [a current client] and [the client’s] girlfriend” count as having sex “with a current client” (a practice forbidden by state bar rules)?

Wisconsin answered in the negative, but disciplined him for other infractions. Now Minnesota has stepped in. From the Pioneer Press:

The three-way sex did not get a lawyer’s license suspended – but plenty of other things did.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered that attorney Michael R. Inglimo stop practicing law for three years….

The high court decision comes after the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Inglimo’s license in October for illegal drug use with clients, having sex with a client’s wife, misuse of a client’s trust account, failure to maintain proper trust account records and criminal conviction for possession of marijuana. The Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility sought reciprocal discipline.

And got it — for the next three years, Inglino can’t practice in Minnesota as well as Wisconsin. There’s no split in authority, then, on the question of three-way jurisprudence originally posed.
3-way sex did not suspend lawyer’s license [Pioneer Press]

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