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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Nov. 22, 2014

Sex with clients is flirting with disaster

When it comes to intimate relationships with clients, the risks are just too great. By J. Randolph Evans, Shari Klevens and Susan Badawi


By J. Randolph Evans, Shari Klevens and Susan Badawi


The number of cases involving intimate relations between attorneys and their clients reflects a growing problem that threatens not only the participating parties, but their colleagues and law firm partners.


Increasingly, bar associations have reacted swiftly and severely to situations in which there was even a mere suggestion that an attorney exploited a client relationship, acted improperly or enga...

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