Attorneys are not permitted to have a sexual relationship with their client, unless the sexual relationship began prior to the attorney-client relationship.

 

That makes perfect sense to me but I still don't understand. Jones had sex with her student, not her attorney, correct?

That makes perfect sense to me but I still don't understand. Jones had sex with her student, not her attorney, correct?

 

Yes, but that's the sort of crime that ought to alarm any group reviewing a future bar application. It's an incident that involved her, as a person in a position of trust and responsibility, violating that trust and responsibility. Having relations with a client as that client's attorney would be similar sort of violation of that trust and responsibility.

 

Were I on the Kentucky Bar's Character and Fitness committee, it's the kind of incident that would be an instant red flag.

 

That's what I meant in the original comment.

Yes, but that's the sort of crime that would ought to alarm any group reviewing a future bar application. It's an incident that involved her, as a person in a position of trust and responsibility, violating that trust and responsibility. Were I on the Kentucky Bar's Character and Fitness committee, that's the kind of incident that would be an instant red flag.

 

That's what I meant in the original comment.

 

Makes complete sense, thanks for adding that additional.