Summary: A Sheffield lawyer has been accused of using hypnosis to seduce clients.
Rape has been an intense topic in the media lately, but this latest case sounds too bizarre to be believed. A Sheffield Village lawyer is being accused of using hypnosis to seduce clients. Michael W. Fine of Fine Legal Services has not been formerly charged, but one of his clients, called Jane Doe 1, claims that when she turned to him for a custody lawsuit in February 2013, she noticed some things amiss about their meetings.
Afterwards she felt “wet in the vaginal area, that her bra was disheveled, and that she could not recall the entire duration of the meetings.”
She felt nervous to report this to police, since it sounded like a crazy story, but she wore a wire when visiting him to find out what was going on. Later, the police were convinced by the evidence that she brought them that they should look into it, and sent her to him wearing a wire.
“[Fine] began to use ‘code’ words that induced Doe 1 to enter a trance-like stage,” said Bar Association lawyer Chris Cook.
He would tell her to have orgasms and that he was her ‘teacher.’ Further, he said “that they have a ‘special bond,’ and that their conversations are ‘private conversations between us, nobody else, just us, right,’ that she was ‘being made love to by the world’s greatest lover,’ that she would not ‘cancel her next meeting,’ and all she would recall of the conversation was that ‘we talked about legal matters,’” Cook wrote.
Another woman, Jane Doe 2, made similar accusations saying that after she hired Fine to help her with her divorce proceedings, he asked her to remove her coat and sweater and introduced some relaxation and meditation techniques. Perhaps this was how he established the “code” words that allowed him to manipulate them.
That such a thing is possible in the first place is a horrible and also somewhat interesting idea.
The bar, meanwhile, is seeking to immediately suspend Fine’s license.