Rethinking the Lawyer-Client Interview: Taking a Relational Approach

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...

The Influence of Third Parties on the Lawyer-Client Relationship

Rethinking the Supercollider Client..

We present ScalaCollider, a new client framework to connect to the SuperCollider sound synthesis server. It builds on top of the general purpose language Scala. Scala’s ambition is to allow for the development of scalable systems, being equally comfortable both for small-scale scripting and large-scale modular projects. Following an overview and comparison of the currently available clients for...