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Newsroom: Guiding Startups Through Legal Pickles 11-14-2016, Jill Rodrigues, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Guiding Startups Through Legal Pickles 11-14-2016, Jill Rodrigues, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Law School News Guiding Startups Through Legal Pickles: Law Students Launch Artisan Pickler And Other Businesses To Success 11/09/2016, Jill Rodriques
Law School News Guiding Startups Through Legal Pickles: Law Students Launch Artisan Pickler And Other Businesses To Success 11/09/2016, Jill Rodriques
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Newsroom: Monestier On Web Jurisdiction 7/22/2016, Pat Murphy, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Monestier On Web Jurisdiction 7/22/2016, Pat Murphy, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Compassion Fatigue: Caveat Caregiver?, Jennifer Baum
Compassion Fatigue: Caveat Caregiver?, Jennifer Baum
Faculty Publications
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Most of us are familiar with the stereotype of the burned out lawyer who drags herself to work in the morning, makes cynical comments throughout the day, no longer provides her best service to her clients, and goes home bored and uninspired. You may wonder why someone so uncaring ever became a child advocate in the first place, or how she lost her spark. And you know this could never happen to you. Right?
Wrong, according to a panel of experts convened by the ABA Section of Litigation’s Children’s Rights Litigation Committee in a teleconference examining the phenomenon recently …
A 360 Degree View Of Roles And Responsibilities Concerning Diminished Capacity: Financial Advisers’ Obligations To Clients, Lawyers Representing Clients, And Lawyers Preparing Their Practices, Elissa Germaine, Nicole G. Iannarone, Teresa Verges
A 360 Degree View Of Roles And Responsibilities Concerning Diminished Capacity: Financial Advisers’ Obligations To Clients, Lawyers Representing Clients, And Lawyers Preparing Their Practices, Elissa Germaine, Nicole G. Iannarone, Teresa Verges
Faculty Publications
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Aging is inevitable and impacts everyone. The risk of a person developing cognitive impairment or some other incapacity affecting daily life increases with each passing year. While some will live long lives without suffering from cognitive decline, others will not be so fortunate. One thing is clear: seniors have the greatest risk of developing some form of impairment that will impact their ability to make their own decisions and that will put them at risk of fraud by predators or of harm by well-intentioned but ill-informed persons seeking to help them. As lawyers representing clients in FINRA proceedings, PIABA …
Lawyers’ Obligations When Representing Clients With Diminished Capacity, Elissa Germaine
Lawyers’ Obligations When Representing Clients With Diminished Capacity, Elissa Germaine
Faculty Publications
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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 …