State Bar & Bar Associations
Jun. 25, 2016
Proposed rule would ban most lawyer-client sex
Lawyers would be prohibited from having sex with their clients unless they had a prior consensual sexual relationship if a proposed change to California's Rules of Professional Conduct is adopted.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Lawyers would be prohibited from having sex with their clients unless they had a prior consensual sexual relationship if a proposed change to California's Rules of Professional Conduct is adopted.
The State Bar's board voted 9-2 on Thursday to put out for public comment the much more restrictive rule detailing when an attorney could be subjected to bar discipline for having sexual relations with a client.
The rule was one o...
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