NJSBA Family Law Section

Hello Family Law Section members,

The Family Law Section and New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education are presenting Managing Difficult Family Law Clients and Cases on Friday, June 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick.

The program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 4.5 hours of total CLE credit. Of these, 4.5 qualify as hours of credit toward certification in matrimonial law.

As a member of the Family Law Section, you save 25 percent off the general tuition. The price for Family Law Section members is $142.50. The general tuition is $190.

Pick up strategies that make difficult situations much easier - for you and for the clients you represent.

Understanding personality types and disorders is essential for lawyers to be supportive of their clients while realistically managing clients’ expectations and responses during divorce proceedings. This entirely new seminar will present an overview of the mental health issues you are most likely to encounter with family clients, a working knowledge of how mental health professionals can play a supportive role in helping you handle your most difficult clients so you can achieve successful outcomes on their behalf.

Learn the best practices to successfully manage your most difficult family law clients, including:

• Understanding personality types and disorders
• Screening clients for mental illness, domestic violence and substance abuse
• Recognizing the difference between clients who are having situational problems and those who have underlying disorders
• Defining your role
• Effective interventions
• How to set limits and boundaries with clients
• Managing your reactions to difficult clients
• Controlling client expectations
• Helping your clients channel rage and compartmentalize issues
• Role of mental health professionals and how they can help you help your client
  ...and much more!

The faculty includes Thomas Snyder, Eileen Kohutis and Madelyn Milchman.

Click here to register for Managing Difficult Family Law Clients and Cases. You can also call 732-214-8500 to reach an association associate who can help you register.

All the best,
Barb

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Barbara Straczynski
Director of New Media and Promotions
New Jersey State Bar Association
New Brunswick NJ
(732) 937-7524
[email protected]
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Hello Family Law Section members,

The Family Law Section and New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education are presenting Managing Difficult Family Law Clients and Cases on Friday, June 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick.

The program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 4.5 hours of total CLE credit. Of these, 4.5 qualify as hours of credit toward certification in matrimonial law.

As a member of the Family Law Section, you save 25 percent off the general tuition. The price for Family Law Section members is $142.50. The general tuition is $190.

Pick up strategies that make difficult situations much easier - for you and for the clients you represent.

Understanding personality types and disorders is essential for lawyers to be supportive of their clients while realistically managing clients’ expectations and responses during divorce proceedings. This entirely new seminar will present an overview of the mental health issues you are most likely to encounter with family clients, a working knowledge of how mental health professionals can play a supportive role in helping you handle your most difficult clients so you can achieve successful outcomes on their behalf.

Learn the best practices to successfully manage your most difficult family law clients, including:

• Understanding personality types and disorders
• Screening clients for mental illness, domestic violence and substance abuse
• Recognizing the difference between clients who are having situational problems and those who have underlying disorders
• Defining your role
• Effective interventions
• How to set limits and boundaries with clients
• Managing your reactions to difficult clients
• Controlling client expectations
• Helping your clients channel rage and compartmentalize issues
• Role of mental health professionals and how they can help you help your client
  ...and much more!

The faculty includes Thomas Snyder, Eileen Kohutis and Madelyn Milchman.

Click here to register for Managing Difficult Family Law Clients and Cases. You can also call 732-214-8500 to reach an association associate who can help you register.

All the best,
Barb

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Barbara Straczynski
Director of New Media and Promotions
New Jersey State Bar Association
New Brunswick NJ
(732) 937-7524
[email protected]
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I don't who the "decision maker" is on things like this, but seminars during the week are tough... I'd like to attend, but have two motions on that day.  I can't be the only one in that position.  In fact, why not do a link to one of the those "do it yourself online polls" and ask if people would be more likely to attend an evening seminar (6-9) or a weekend one at 10-1?

Even without being able to go - I guess I'd like to see the materials.  I'd also love to hear how people generally handle this issue.  In fact...

We all get varying clients, usually two generally reasonable people, sometimes emotional.  But every now and then - how do we handle this? I have a matter I took over for another attorney, which I now regret having done. The client makes my skin crawl. He acknowledged right off that he had a sexual offense conviction with a young adolescent 10 years ago, but I took it anyway. He seemed genuinely remorseful about this one-time act. But it now turns out that the details I was given (drunk 28 year old touching a 12 year old in a swimming pool, once) were not accurate and the actual offense (months of grooming involved, much more to the assault than I was told, and post-assault even creepier actions). We got a 90+ page psych report back that is unlike anything I've ever seen, rampant narcissism, borderline sociopath. The evaluator individually interviewed his ex and the kids, and they're all consistent on a long history of violence and abuse.  Recommends no contact at all - which I've never seen before - with re-evaluation if and only if client engages in years of therapy. I try to tell myself the guy is sick, that he didn't choose to be this way, that it's my duty to nonetheless represent him zealously, but it's hard to fight my (literal) gut reaction of not wanting to be near the guy or deal with him in any way.  "Best part" is, of course, that the case is most probably in that 2-3% that is actually going to trial and I'll need to prep and try the case.  I've had other people who I wouldn't want around my kids, people with anger or control issues or whatever ... but this one is just repulsing me.

Others been there?  How do you handle it?

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David Perry Davis, Esq.
112 West Franklin Avenue
Pennington, NJ 08534
www.FamilyLawNJ.pro
Voice: 609-737-2222
Fax: 609-737-3222
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