Seems To Be An Opinion Held By Many

Personally I am of the opinion that someone has to do it but that can change depending whether I am the plaintiff or the defendant and the outcome of the action.

Lawyers are rats

A top legal scholar exposes the corruption of his profession

Kate Fillion | Jul 26, 2007 | 4:10 pm EST

In this week's issue of Maclean's, Kate Fillion talks to ex-Bay Street lawyer Philip Slayton, author of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada's Legal Profession, about how lawyers became greedy, unprincipled enablers of the rich. In this excerpt, Slayton explains the ethics of sleeping with your client and tells his favourite lawyer joke. (Warning: Said joke is not legally obligated to make you laugh.)

Q: The lawyers in your book are almost as oversexed as the ones on TV. Is it ever okay to sleep with a client?

A: Various law societies have various answers that veer from zero tolerance to the Wild West. I don’t think anybody has a clear answer. My answer is, there’s a huge difference between a male lawyer taking advantage of a highly vulnerable woman and a lawyer who has as a client a highly competent general counsel of a major corporation well able to take care of herself. But if somebody asked me in the abstract for advice, I would say, don’t do it!