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By Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack | December 28, 2023
Confidentiality facilitates honest communication by assuring patients that the details of their lives, shared with their health care providers, will remain private. Yet, mental health professionals in some states are imposed with a duty to warn, requiring them to take reasonable steps to protect potential victims of their clients. However, not every state adheres to the concept of the duty to warn taking precedence over the need to maintain client confidentiality.
8 minute read
By Shari L. Klevens and Alanna Clair | December 18, 2023
Attorneys can go far in helping each other out, and thankfully many state bars, including Georgia's, take it upon themselves to provide support for their members. Here's what lawyers should know in order to provide support for themselves or colleagues at this time of year.
6 minute read
By Eric C. Lang | December 18, 2023
In 2012, I tried to take my own life and then learned that I had been for, well, a long time, been dealing with undiagnosed and untreated bipolar disorder. Along the road to my attempt, I did some unethical things, and consequently had some time away from the law.
11 minute read
By Tracy LaLonde | December 15, 2023
As our world, culture and workplaces have evolved, command-and-control is no longer a viable leadership technique, nor does it result in long-term success.
7 minute read
By Jimmy Hoover | December 11, 2023
The court's decision to pass on a constitutional challenge to the 2018 law brought dissents from two of the court's conservative justices.
4 minute read
By Naval Parikh | December 11, 2023
Given the post-pandemic culture, volatile world events and today's divisive political arena, some of the older guidance may not suffice.
5 minute read
By Tracy LaLonde | December 6, 2023
The command-and-control style of management is present in many law firms—and while it may arguably have worked in the past, it's become increasingly ineffective as motivation, expectations and tolerance of associates have evolved.
6 minute read
By Emily Cousins | December 1, 2023
The plaintiff--who worked in Connecticut as well remotely in his California home office--claimed he was discriminated against due to his race and national origin and exposed to a hostile work environment.
3 minute read
By Allison Dunn | December 1, 2023
"We find that Doe waived his claims of confidentiality under the Act by voluntarily and publicly disclosing his private health information in a public trial, and the qualified protective order under HIPAA did not preclude such waiver," Justice P. Scott Neville Jr., wrote.
4 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | December 1, 2023
Prosecutors insisted in a Thursday brief that Tom Girardi's courtroom behavior—including hurling an expletive at one of them under his breath—shows he's mentally competent to stand trial on criminal charges.
6 minute read
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