Lawyer Banned From Representing Women Says He Didn't Know He Couldn't Represent Women

Seriously? Come on with this absurdity.

I want to continue practicing law.

— Connecticut attorney Ira Mayo, making a plea to avoid a five-year disbarment before disciplinary officials at a hearing last week.

This summer, as punishment for allegedly making “inappropriate sexual overtures” to his female clients and pressuring them for sex, Mayo accepted a lifetime ban on representing women, as well as a four-month suspension. Mayo was previously ordered to stop representing women in family law and domestic violence cases in 2010, but continued to do so in violation of that order. Mayo now claims he thought there would be a grace period for him to wind up his cases with women clients.

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