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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i can guarantee that law ethics never says don't sleep with your boss in a law firm. We all know the don't sleep with "active" clients, but nothing about don't sleep with your boss.

Source: ethics attorney. [/quote]

Seriously, you are an ethics attorney?! Forehead slap!!! People like you are the reason we have a #metoo movement.  FFS, it's the blind leading the blind out there....

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NP here, and you're an idiot.  The PP was talking about the canons of legal ethics that each lawyer is required to adhere.  Failure to adhere is grounds for discipline or disbarment.  They deal with the client relationship, candor to courts - ethics in connection with the business of being a lawyer.  And they say nothing about sleeping with your married boss.  Is that stupid?  [b]Yes.  Is it "unethical" in the sense that it is "wrong?"  Perhaps.  But it isn't a violation of legal ethics.  [/quote][/b]

Your answer speaks volumes about the sad state of the law today.  Today's modern lawyer seems to give the clients a green light for anything that isn't clearly against the law, regulation, cannon of ethics, etc.  This means that people, counseled by attorneys, feel free to do things that are clearly going to get themselves in trouble down the line.  That's a sad standard for legal advice, and it wasn't the kind of advice given by the Washington lawyer of several decades ago, who would have counseled about the wisdom of doing something "unethical" "wrong" even if it wasn't a strict violation.

The rule for any modern working person is -- don't sleep with anyone in your chain of command.  Bosses shouldn't be sleeping with staff that they supervise in any way on any project.  Staff shouldn't be sleeping with bosses or any superiors at work that do or may supervise them in anyway.  Why?  Because any lawyer worth a penny would advise that the supervisory staff is opening themselves up to sexual harassment claims, and the subordinate staff is also opening themselves up to harassment or retaliation that may affect their career even if it may never rise to the level of legally actionable (and even if it does become legally actionable, it will still likely affect career negatively.)

If you want to f someone in the office, get a new job and then f them.  Anyone who advises you that banging a supervisor or subordinate in the office is "perhaps" "wrong," is an idiot.

If you're banging someone in the office and want to get out of it, get your own counsel experienced in sexual harassment suits and find out from them how to document, what are your options for getting out and how to handle HR aspects.  Lawyers should know when they need legal counsel, and, man, does OP need it. [/quote]

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