What To Do When You See Cognitive Decline- An Ethics Seminar
Date: Jun 17, 2024 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $143
Non-Member Price: $179
Areas of Law: Lawyer Well-Being
Earn up to 2.4 credits, including 1.0 in Ethics! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Dr. Defne Ekin
- Team Clinician, New Jersey Lawyers Assistance Program, New Brunswick
Presenters
- Ayesha Krishnan Hamilton, Esq.
- Hamilton Law Firm PC, Princeton
- Michael T. McCormick, Esq.
- Director, New Jersey Lawyers Fund For Client Protecction, Trenton
- Dr. Robert Trobliger
- Director of Clinical Neuropsychology, Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group
- Rachael Weeks, Esq.
- Deputy Ethics Counsel, New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics
- Miles S. Winder, III, Esq.
- Past President, NJSBA
Expert in Attorney and Law Office Succession, Tacoma
Presented in cooperation with the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) and the New Jersey Lawyers Assistance Program (NJLAP)
According to a 2021 ABA Study, there are over 1.2 million practicing attorneys, sitting judges, and judicial law clerks in the United States. Of those, approximately 168,000, roughly 14%, are over the age of 65. With age comes experience, a solid client base built over many years and a trusted network of colleagues with whom a lawyer can exchange ideas, try out a new legal theory, or socialize. There can sometimes be a downside to age though. For some lawyers, older age brings cognitive impairment.
This program will address the difficult subject of what to suspect when a colleague, partner or adversary is experiencing cognitive decline. Expert clinicians and experienced ethics counsel will give you concrete information about symptoms to watch for (memory is only one), and how to react in a compassionate, caring manner that honors your colleague or partner while keeping you – and them- inside of the ethics requirements and safeguarding their clients’ cases.
Program Agenda:
- 1:00 | Overview
- 1:10 | What are the signs of cognitive decline?
- Representative Hypothetical
- Medical and Therapeutic Discussion
- Rules of Professional Conduct that might be implicated
- 1:35 | How to respond when it appears another attorney has cognitive decline.
- What to say or do? A practical “how to.”
- What are your ethical obligations?
- Representative hypothetical
- Employment law implications
- Third party referrals
- 2:00 | How to respond to concerns regarding your own mental health.
- Representative hypothetical
- Cognitive evaluations summary
- Disability inactive status, when, why and how.
- 2:25 | How to limit or leave your practice with pride in your legacy of grace and health.
- Representative hypothetical
- Succession planning
- Lawyers Fund for Client Protection
- 2:50 | Summary of resources and Q&A
- 300 | Adjourn
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