I'm writing an article on the tepid disciplinary consequences for lawyers who sexually harass and abuse their clients. Each day I work on this project, I am more dismayed by our profession's failure of accountability for this predatory behavior.

In 2018, an Oklahoma lawyer was suspended for three months after coercing a particularly vulnerable criminal defense client into having sex with him AND repeatedly making unwanted sexually explicit comments towards TWO other family law clients.

In 2018, an Ohio lawyer was publicly reprimanded for coercing a family law client who had lost custody of her child to show him her breasts (AND for making and failing to timely correct a drafting mistake that cost another client a lot of money).

These are just two in a sea of cases. I mention the years because in many contexts, #MeToo 's viral moment shifted the paradigm for what is considered excusable or tolerable. However, as far as I can tell, the legal profession's own reckoning has yet to come.