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Louisville Escort Scandal Adds Lawyer From Bottom Of Trashcan

The Louisville basketball sex scandal has brought back a lawyer from the garbage heap.

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Did the Louisville Athletic Department really pay an escort (and her daughters) to service basketball recruits? I mean, after we learned that Rick Pitino has sex within the confines of the shot clock and the football program rehired motorcycle enthusiast Bobby Petrino, nothing about Louisville’s sexcapades should really surprise us. But having a staff member hiring escorts for high schoolers seems a bit over-the-top.

For what it’s worth, the staffer accused of procuring the entertainment denies the allegations. He even hired lawyer Scott Cox to make professional, lawyerly statements to the media like branding accuser Katina Powell a “whore” who is “only interested in making money,” which would seem harsh except she’s kind of already admitting that.

But Powell has lawyered up herself and managed to find a lawyer at the bottom of a trashcan. No, that’s not a mean-spirited take on his lawyering skills or ethics, it’s just that he really can be found at the bottom of a trashcan.

Back in 2009, we profiled attorney Larry Wilder, a well-regarded attorney from Indiana — just across the border from Louisville — who had an unfortunate photo op after a night of hard drinking. Really, really hard drinking. The caption on that photo at the top of the page is not snark, that really is Larry Wilder kicking it Oscar-style.

The pic cost Wilder his high-paying gigs working for the city and county government, which was classic bureaucratic pearl clutching since sleeping that one off didn’t suddenly make Wilder a bad lawyer. Nor was it part of any pattern. If anything he was paying homage to the city’s hard-working sanitation workers who leave the town so clean you can sleep in your garbage bin.

For his part, Wilder didn’t have time for the haters and just went back to rebuilding his reputation with a little trick called “being good at his job.”

“I have a very successful law practice, and it’s continued to be very successful in spite of what occurred in 2009,” he said. “And much of that I think is because people understand there’s a value to being truthful and honest about things that happen, accepting the good with the bad, going forward and working hard and being the damned best you can be and better than everybody else.”

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Now there’s a real Lawyer of the Day.

And any argument to the contrary is pure rubbish.

Louisville accuser Katina Powell has lawyer with glaring past [USA Today]

Earlier: Lawyer of the Day: Larry Wilder

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