Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Mar. 14, 2015
How to represent mentally impaired clients
Ethics experts say a lawyer representing someone who may be mentally ill or impaired must work extra hard to make sure he and the client communicate effectively.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Representing a client who is or appears to be mentally impaired is not easy. Ask professional responsibility experts about the ethics of dealing with potentially incompetent clients, and you get adjectives like "thorny" and "very nuanced."
"It's fraught with damned-if-you-do-and-dammed-if-you-don't choices," said Jerome Fishkin, a discipline defense attorne...
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