Doctor-Lawyer Dilemma

John Clavell, 1601–43: highwayman, author, lawyer, doctor

problems, his achievements and his failures, as he appeared to contemporaries, pupils and successors, as well as to those who are the heirs of a tradition to which he contributed. I recall, dimly, reading a remark of Kipling's, that a teacher is at the mercy of his disciples. It was well said. In this instance the disciples are shown to have been worthy. They had their own successes and failure...

Doctor-patient communication: some suggestions from a plaintiff's trial lawyer.

Exploring Lawyer–Client Interaction

Personal injury victims involved in compensation processes have a worse recovery than those not involved in compensation processes. One predictor for worse recovery is lawyer engagement. As some people argue that this negative relation between lawyer engagement and recovery may be explained by lawyers' attitude and communications to clients, it seems important to investigate lawyer-client inter...

Prohibiting lawyer-client sex.

Psychotherapists' and physicians' sexual contact with their patients has been long held as unethical conduct. However, lawyers' sexual contact with clients has been largely ignored in the professional literature. This article uniquely anatomizes the similarities in the vulnerabilities and power imbalances that exist between psychotherapists' and lawyers' relationships with patients/clients. The...

Client-Lawyer Relationship

[1] Loyalty and independent judgment are essential elements in the lawyer's relationship to a client. Concurrent conflicts of interest can arise from the lawyer's responsibilities to another client, a former client or a third person or from the lawyer's own interests. For specific Rules regarding certain concurrent conflicts of interest, see Rule 1.8. For former client conflicts of interest, se...