Life Imitates The Practice

Ok, so a defense lawyer was thrown off a case for having sex with her client. What gets me is the double standard:

"The ABA said it has no national statistics on how many lawyers have been disciplined for having sex with their clients. Such trysts typically involve male lawyers and female clients who are going through a divorce -- not a 26-year-old, male triple-murder defendant and his married, 43-year-old counsel. 'You don't think about this and think, "Here's this poor vulnerable guy who got sucked into this relationship,"' said Boston University Law School ethics professor Nancy Moore, who lobbied the ABA to adopt the rule. 'But it still creates a conflict of interest that makes the lawyer less capable of exercising independent judgment.'"

So, when the lawyer is a man and the client is a woman, she's "poor," "vulnerable," and been "sucked into" having sex with her lawyer. Why don't I buy that? Jesus Christ, what century is this? Are they implying that women are incapable of being manipulative or sexual, and that they can't think for themselves? I can't imagine that every woman who sleeps with her divorce lawyer is so distraught and confused and is taking solace blah blah blah blah. Granted, it's always a bad idea to have an affair with anyone you employ, but give me a break.