RPC 1.14(a) directs lawyers to, whenever possible, “maintain a normal client-lawyer relationship with the client” if his capacity to make “adequately considered decisions” is diminished. As [...]
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) estimates that 1 in every 25 American adults experience a serious mental illness. On average, only 60% of those identified with serious mental [...]
In a recent Sunday edition of the New York Times, Professor Christine Porath summarized the findings of several studies on the impact of rudeness—both by bosses and other employees. In a poll of [...]
The client at the other end of the line, who we’ll call Sam, was almost angry, annoyed by a request for his signature on the latest in a modest string of records stipulations prepared by defense [...]