A lawyer is meeting with a prospective client, a woman seeking a divorce from her husband. He explains to her that she must provide a thousand dollar retainer in order for him to represent her. She pulls out her billfold, and hands him a crisp, new $1000 bill. Acting as if this is no big deal, he nonchalantly puts the $1000 bill in his desk drawer.
They finish their conversation, and the woman leaves. The lawyer immediately takes the $1000 bill from his desk drawer to check it out, and he notices that there is a second $1000 bill stuck to the first one (as sometimes happens with brand new paper money). So, noow he has an ethical dilemma:
