You should TREAD VERY CARFULLY. It is touchey.
Even tho you are NOT a new attorney, you ARE a new attorney to the firm, so you do NOT want to show up the attorney who is responsibel for this CLEINT. So what I would do is to go to the attorney who is responsibel for the CLEINT, and ask if you can assist him in cleint matter’s. Tell him that you would LIKE to go to the event and to get a ticket. Do NOT tell him that you are an expert or he will keep you AWAY from the cleint, even at these kind of event’s. That is NOT good.
This is what happened to a freind of mine. She had the VERY same situation where she had dated a cleint from the gym, and then the cleint became a cleint at the firm she worked at. So the cleint knew her and wanted her to be the firm contact, but the partner did not want her to be faceing the cleint all the time b/c she was still dateing the cleint. So the partner said she could not date the cleint if she was to do work for him. She wanted the work and also wanted to date him, so she agreed that she would NOT be the lead on the acount with the cleint as long as she was dateing him. After 3 month’s the cleint did not want to date her any more so she then became the lead on the acount. That was still awkaward, b/c the cleint had been intimate with her, but I think it is workeing out now. Yay!
