Law student and escort faces good character hearing
Sam Pazzano Courts Bureau
Published:
December 12, 2018
Updated:
December 12, 2018 9:05 PM EST
(Instagram)
Law student and escort Nadia Guo will take her fight to become a lawyer to a good character hearing before the Law Society of Ontario on Thursday.
Guo, 28, must prove she’s a person of good character so that she can be called to the bar after some lawyers made complaints “about her relentlessly and remorselessly appalling” behaviour which they contend made her unfit to become a lawyer.
It wasn’t her night or weekend job — which consisted of realizing people’s wildest sexual fantasies as a self-described “bedroom nymph” — that jeopardized her chance for a legal career.
No one complained about her escort job.
Instead, lawyers reported a litany of breaches to the Law Society while she worked as an articling student from July 2015 to December 2015, for Toronto criminal defence lawyer Marco Forte, including leaking confidential communications from a private lawyer-to-lawyer Criminal Lawyers’ Association (CLA) website to her widely-read Twitter account.
Ottawa lawyer John Hale and Ryan Manilla contacted Guo privately to urge her to stop, but she reacted “with hostility,” an agreed statement of fact (ASF) filed at the tribunal stated.
Guo called Manilla “a psychotic f—” and wrote, “Dude, don’t compare me to yourself. It’s so f—ing insulting,” the ASF stated.
“Guo’s conduct as an articling student demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to deal … in a civil and respectful manner, and, in fact, whose treatment of counsel and other justice participants is so relentlessly and remorselessly appalling that she appears unfit to be called to the bar,” wrote Hale in the ASF.
“It could be that Ms. Guo’s thought processes and behaviour are the product of mental illness or personality disorder,” added Hale.
“I hope she gets the help she needs.”
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She was once arrested at 393 University Ave. — at a civil court clerk’s office — after giving the finger to staff after she waited hours to be served on July 15, 2015.
No charges were laid.
Guo also tried to scoop other lawyers’ clients from courthouses. When Toronto lawyer Jordan Weisz told her to stop, she retaliated on her Twitter account by arguing about “white male privilege” on posts that some CLA members “found denigrating and offensive,” the ASF stated.
“Guo engaged in a cruel enjoyment of attacking people without having to suffer any repercussions of her behaviour,” stated Weisz in the ASF.
Guo once tweeted she had a “girlcrush” on the female judge, a former professor of hers at Osgoode Hall Law School. She referred to the judge by her first name.
Weisz said those tweets were offensive and concerning and Guo removed them, but e-mailed him directly saying: “Get a life.”
In December 2015, Guo used her website and Twitter feeds to make comments that “were disparaging to specific Crown counsel, demeaning to Crown prosecutions and contained unsupported suggestions that ‘the entire administration of justice is corrupt,’” stated the ASF.
Another downtown law firm where Guo worked as a summer student in 2013 stated she wore “totally inappropriate, ultra-revealing clothing, which made staff uncomfortable,’” the ASF indicated.
She was fired for her clothing, tardiness, being unhelpful with clients and for shouting matches with her mom on the phone.
Guo completed her articling with another lawyer, John Kaldas, in July 2017, and has apologized in a sincere letter to Hale and the Crown’s office.
She has also undergone certified executive coaching to improve her professional conduct, the ASF stated.
(Instagram)
“Let’s shock the world and declare that we are now fast friends!” wrote Hale in May this year.
“I’m gonna be a feminist porn star, quoting Charter jurisprudence as I orgasm. Either that or a dominatrix, whipping the sorry red asses of sorry-assed lawyers who need their heads pulled outta the sand. Or both,” she tweeted.
Guo made the Dean’s List in prestigious universities and appeared to be a bright, ambitious student at law school who paid the hefty fees by charging third-year Bay Street lawyers’ fees ($300) for sexual services and dates to clients.
The Canadian born daughter of Chinese parents works as a “bedroom nymph” escort under the name “Dawn Lee.”
“I guess I was destined to be a professional seductress … I learned early on that love came with its baggage, but sex didn’t have to,” she wrote in a web page dated 2017-18.
“It wasn’t long before I realized I could be charging men for the pleasure of pleasuring me. Seduction was my first tongue.”
spazzano@postmedia.com
http://dawnleeto.com
http://torontosun.com/news/crime/law-student-and-escort-faces-good-character-hearing
Sam Pazzano Courts Bureau
Published:
December 12, 2018
Updated:
December 12, 2018 9:05 PM EST
(Instagram)
Law student and escort Nadia Guo will take her fight to become a lawyer to a good character hearing before the Law Society of Ontario on Thursday.
Guo, 28, must prove she’s a person of good character so that she can be called to the bar after some lawyers made complaints “about her relentlessly and remorselessly appalling” behaviour which they contend made her unfit to become a lawyer.
It wasn’t her night or weekend job — which consisted of realizing people’s wildest sexual fantasies as a self-described “bedroom nymph” — that jeopardized her chance for a legal career.
No one complained about her escort job.
Instead, lawyers reported a litany of breaches to the Law Society while she worked as an articling student from July 2015 to December 2015, for Toronto criminal defence lawyer Marco Forte, including leaking confidential communications from a private lawyer-to-lawyer Criminal Lawyers’ Association (CLA) website to her widely-read Twitter account.
Ottawa lawyer John Hale and Ryan Manilla contacted Guo privately to urge her to stop, but she reacted “with hostility,” an agreed statement of fact (ASF) filed at the tribunal stated.
Guo called Manilla “a psychotic f—” and wrote, “Dude, don’t compare me to yourself. It’s so f—ing insulting,” the ASF stated.
“Guo’s conduct as an articling student demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to deal … in a civil and respectful manner, and, in fact, whose treatment of counsel and other justice participants is so relentlessly and remorselessly appalling that she appears unfit to be called to the bar,” wrote Hale in the ASF.
“It could be that Ms. Guo’s thought processes and behaviour are the product of mental illness or personality disorder,” added Hale.
“I hope she gets the help she needs.”
Screen capture of dawnleeto.com
She was once arrested at 393 University Ave. — at a civil court clerk’s office — after giving the finger to staff after she waited hours to be served on July 15, 2015.
No charges were laid.
Guo also tried to scoop other lawyers’ clients from courthouses. When Toronto lawyer Jordan Weisz told her to stop, she retaliated on her Twitter account by arguing about “white male privilege” on posts that some CLA members “found denigrating and offensive,” the ASF stated.
“Guo engaged in a cruel enjoyment of attacking people without having to suffer any repercussions of her behaviour,” stated Weisz in the ASF.
Guo once tweeted she had a “girlcrush” on the female judge, a former professor of hers at Osgoode Hall Law School. She referred to the judge by her first name.
Weisz said those tweets were offensive and concerning and Guo removed them, but e-mailed him directly saying: “Get a life.”
In December 2015, Guo used her website and Twitter feeds to make comments that “were disparaging to specific Crown counsel, demeaning to Crown prosecutions and contained unsupported suggestions that ‘the entire administration of justice is corrupt,’” stated the ASF.
Another downtown law firm where Guo worked as a summer student in 2013 stated she wore “totally inappropriate, ultra-revealing clothing, which made staff uncomfortable,’” the ASF indicated.
She was fired for her clothing, tardiness, being unhelpful with clients and for shouting matches with her mom on the phone.
Guo completed her articling with another lawyer, John Kaldas, in July 2017, and has apologized in a sincere letter to Hale and the Crown’s office.
She has also undergone certified executive coaching to improve her professional conduct, the ASF stated.
(Instagram)
“Let’s shock the world and declare that we are now fast friends!” wrote Hale in May this year.
“I’m gonna be a feminist porn star, quoting Charter jurisprudence as I orgasm. Either that or a dominatrix, whipping the sorry red asses of sorry-assed lawyers who need their heads pulled outta the sand. Or both,” she tweeted.
Guo made the Dean’s List in prestigious universities and appeared to be a bright, ambitious student at law school who paid the hefty fees by charging third-year Bay Street lawyers’ fees ($300) for sexual services and dates to clients.
The Canadian born daughter of Chinese parents works as a “bedroom nymph” escort under the name “Dawn Lee.”
“I guess I was destined to be a professional seductress … I learned early on that love came with its baggage, but sex didn’t have to,” she wrote in a web page dated 2017-18.
“It wasn’t long before I realized I could be charging men for the pleasure of pleasuring me. Seduction was my first tongue.”
spazzano@postmedia.com
http://dawnleeto.com
http://torontosun.com/news/crime/law-student-and-escort-faces-good-character-hearing
