After news reports that one of the women who accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment wants to tell her story to the press, Andrew Perlman at Legal Ethics Forum poses this hypothetical (or not so hypothetical?), and mulls over the ethical implications for the media lawyer:
Imagine that a media company is willing to pay the accuser a million dollars for her story and is willing to indemnify the accuser against whatever damages she has to pay for breaching the confidentiality agreement (e.g., liquidated damages).
Check it out. Think it over.
