Perspective
Jul. 20, 2016
Bar might follow ABA on attorney-client sex rules
The State Bar of California is considering new rules that prohibits sex with clients unless it is consensual and pre-dates the attorney-client relationship. By Carol M. Langford
In 1907 Sigmund Freud coined the phenomenon of professional service providers having sex with their clients "transference." The client feels love and admiration for the object of transference, the service provider. The service provider reacts by displacing feelings, desires and attitudes onto the client that promote a sexual relationship.
Over 100 years later, Freud's discovery is still at the heart of an issue that affe...
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