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Lawyers’ Obligations When Representing Clients With Diminished Capacity, Elissa Germaine
Lawyers’ Obligations When Representing Clients With Diminished Capacity, Elissa Germaine
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Lawyers have a significant role to play in protecting clients with diminished capacity from financial exploitation. PIABA members, in particular, see the issue from a unique vantage point – usually after a person with diminished capacity (or a family member or concerned third party) notices a drop in value in his or her brokerage account and approaches the lawyer to help figure out what happened in the account and, if appropriate, to pursue a claim to recover damages. As such, members must understand their own obligations as lawyers to clients with diminished capacity, obligations that apply in the context …