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5 CPD units
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Member: $215.00
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The law within: moral injury in legal practice
Anna Fischer: Wellbeing Manager, Law Society of NSW
Communicating with clients in crisis: An ethical and trauma-informed approach
Anna Fischer: Wellbeing Manager, Law Society of NSW
Growth and Wellbeing
Articles and Media
Many of you will have heard by now of a condition called vicarious trauma, a psychological injury that can occur when we over-empathise or over-identify with another person’s traumatic experience. There is another danger, however, that is pervasive in the legal profession but which is much less known: moral injury.
Solicitors bear many duties towards their clients, including to act in a client’s best interests, to deliver legal services competently, diligently and as promptly as reasonably possible, to provide clear and timely advice to assist their clients, and to follow a client’s lawful, proper, and competent instructions. However, many solicitors likely relate to the feeling that, no matter how deliberately they communicate throughout a matter, some clients just won’t cooperate.