You raise an interesting point. In most cases when a lawyer fires a client it is because of non payment. Lawyers offer expert advise and likely legal outcomes. Seems to me to be rather unethical to fire a client because the case has become too hot to handle and could damage the lawyers reputation. It is possible she determined her client impossible to deal with, but I wouldn’t put much merit in that conclusion. Mr. Weinstein is still walking the streets.
If Weinstein had been too difficult to deal with, Lisa Bloom would have been delighted to announce that. Instead, Bloom has admitted that she “made a mistake†by agreeing to represent him in the first place, which is beyond lame for any attorney. MOST of the people lawyers represent in matters that are or could become criminal are in fact guilty of some bad behavior. For an attorney to back out of representing someone simply because the public will think less of that attorney is cowardly. What James Michael Hurley once said about politicians also applies to criminal attorneys: “An honest politician is one who, once bought, stays bought.†I’d have grudging respect for Lisa Bloom if she had stayed bought.