If lawyers are going to make a mistake and send a text message to a reporter with attorney-client privileged information, the scenario may play out better for them in disciplinary terms when the client is as famous as ex-pro football player Johnny “Football” Manziel.
Bob Hinton, a Dallas attorney who represented Manziel as local counsel in his domestic violence case, accidentally sent a text message to The Associated Press that expressed skepticism about the Heisman trophy winner’s ability to stay clean.
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