Earlier this year, the State Bar of California approved an ethics rule prohibiting sexual relations between attorneys and clients. The new rule, which carves out limited exceptions, awaits a final determination by the California Supreme Court.

If adopted, the rule would outright ban sexual relations between a lawyer and current client, who is not the lawyer’s spouse or domestic partner, unless a consensual sexual relationship existed between them before the attorney-client relationship commenced.

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