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Charging by the hour for sleeping with the client?

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Not surprisingly, the lawyer (barrister) vehemently denies that he charged his client for time spent being intimate. Under the ABA scheme, intimate relationships between lawyer and client are forbidden unless they preceded the attorney client relationship. Under the California rule, they're forbidden when they result in impaired legal performance.

Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on June 11, 2009 (boomark / email).

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