I don’t care how much a client might be paying me, no way do I pull a Donald Brown and declare: “No parent can watch a child 24 hours per day. You take reasonable precautions to make sure doors are locked.”

Especially when your client has a habitual problem keeping her 2-year-old out of Johnston Road.

State bar records indicate that attorney Donald Brown of Charlotte was censured in 2007 for unprofessional conduct.