Ethics

It sounds like an April Fool's joke, doesn't it?  But apparently, it's an actual lawsuit. (See here and here.) The lawyer alleges that he had a brief affair with Lebron James's mother about 9 months before Lebron was born.  The most interesting tidbit is that the lawyer's name is Leicester Bryce Stovell, and he alleges that the mother told him that she was going to name their child after Mr. Stovell.  You don't have to be a linguist to see the interesting possible derivation of Lebron's name.  In any event, this isn't really a legal ethics story, but the lawyer-related spin on the recent Lebron craze caught my eye.

[Update: Several stories originally reported that the lawyer was a partner at a large firm, but those descriptions have been replaced and now suggest that he used to be a lawyer at the SEC and is currently a legal consultant.  I edited the post and the title accordingly.]