I understand what you are saying, but I’d imagine that to a black person, a white guy waving the Confederate flag is a message of “I wish that you black people were once again property of white people.”

I really don’t want some lawyer filling out his briefs because of me.

It is very confusing to me how controversial people find this. In the cases where clients are more powerful, it puts a hard third-party line preventing sexual harassment. It is just an added bonus that the ban protects both parties. If a rich client with a team of lawyers and one of her team want to have sex, that…

And that power the client has plus sex could ptotenially persuade the lawyer to do unethical or illegal things for his/her client. We don’t want that any more than we want a poor client to be taken advantage of by his/her lawyer.

There’s a major issue, because the attorney is still in control and responsible for the legal decisions made on the case. It doesn’t have to be a public defender/indigent client type of relationship for there to still be a power dynamic. Also, you don’t want a lawyer being manipulated by sex with his/her client to do…

As a California attorney, I have no problem with the ban. If you really want to fuck, wait until your professional relationship is over.

“Would you like to have a romantic relationship? If yes, I need to resign as your counsel. I can refer you someone else.”

It seems like it would eliminate potential for sexual harassment in both directions. Not treating your client list as your personal Tinder is a pretty basic professional standard.

Because the tax attorney might make a “mistake” if the client doesn’t sleep with them?

From now on, lawyers will have to fuck their clients the old fashioned way, through their incompetence.

what I vaguely remember from our required professional responsibility course is that the model rules allow you to have sex with your client if you were already having sex with them before the attorney-client relationship was formed. which always made me wonder if that’s how some lawyers get business — pick up someone…

Only 17 states have adopted Model Rule of Profession Conduct 1.8(j)?! Frankly that shocks me. Why is the MPRE teaching shit that fewer than half the states have adopted? That statistic can’t be right...

Also, as I recall, he had originally submitted the manuscript as fiction, but his publisher insisted it was more sellable as autobiography.

Nope Oprah is a hack with good on screen presence and she has a talent for finding other hacks with good on screen presence. She has this remarkable ability to appear genuine if you don’t think about how TV sausage is made. Dr Phil and Dr. Oz are much less talented in this regard.

And remember when she championed “The Secret”? I mean, I know Oprah’s was a weekly show and sometimes they must have to scrape the bottom of the barrel for guests/topics, but that was just pure BS, and so sad.

She also let Jenny McCarthy spout her anti-vaxxing nonsense on account of having cured her child of the autism he got post vaccination. The kicker is that she’s still on the anti-vaccine bandwagon after admitting her kid was never diagnosed with autism!!

I’ve seen one episode of his show. (I wasn’t staying at home and when I went downstairs my step sister had it on.) Anyways, it was a teenage girl talking about her stepfather sexually abusing her and Dr. Phil had them both on. The stepdad was obviously like “no no I never did that,” and Dr. Phil seemingly sided with…

I really admire how she came up in the business, but boy once she got on top did she phone the whole thing in. She makes me feel icky. Apparently, she said some dismissive thing about Trump the other day that was supposed to make America feel better and was called on the carpet about it. I don’t know what she said,…

True story, I was dating someone who would later be revealed to be a compulsive liar who had basically manufactured every aspect of their life that they’d shared with me. I started getting suspicious when they started saying good stuff about Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew, after having told me they were months away from their…

I’m glad that the article brought up 3 Women because she was great in that.