Lawyers & Clinicians: Ethical Obligations to Older Adult Clients & Patients

Lawyers & Clinicians: Ethical Obligations to Older Adult Clients & Patients

Join us at Hamline University, on Wednesday July 9, for an expert presentation on "Lawyers & Clinicians: Ethical Obligations to Older Adult Clients & Patients."

The Minnesota Board approved this event for 1 ethics CLE credit.  This event also qualifies for social work and nursing continuing education credits.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Representing older adults presents especially difficult and tricky ethical questions.  For example, who is your client: the elderly individual or her adult child?  What do you do when your client is clearly incapacitated?  What do you do when you suspect, but are not sure, that your client is incapacitated?  

Professor Martyn will review Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct 1.2, 1.6, and especially 1.14.  Notably, the program will be interactive and will engage the audience.  The program will be built around brief hypothetical situations designed to reveal the relevant professional rules and principles that guide lawyers, physicians, and other clinicians who represent and treat older adults.  The problems raise issues such as:

1. When should an older adult's capacity be questioned and/or evaluated?
2. Are the legal and medical standards for capacity similar?
3. How should friends and relatives be included or excluded in providing legal or medical services?
4. What ethical standards govern the representation and treatment of elder adults?

Lawyers, physicians, nurses and social workers will share their viewpoints and clarify their professional goals in providing elder adults services.  Written materials (including the rules, court cases, and journal articles) will be distributed in advance to registered participants.  

FACULTY / PRESENTER

Susan R. Martyn, is a distinguished visitor at Hamline Law this summer.  Professor Martyn is a national authority on issues of legal ethics and has served on two of the most important national bodies to shape the law governing lawyers in the past twenty years.  

She was an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers from 1987 until its publication in 2000.  And she served on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility from 2007 to 2010 as well as the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission from 1997 to 2002.

WHEN

Wednesday, July 9, 2014
5:30 p.m. Reception
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Presentation

WHERE

Hamline University Health Law Institute
Anderson Center Room 111 & Live Webcast
774 Snelling Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104
Map: http://tinyurl.com/czjonl8

REGISTER

Register here
Free for the Hamline community
$35 for outside guests earning CLE credit

QUESTIONS

Kari McMartin
Program Manager
Health Law Institute
651-523-2130
kmcmartin02@hamline.edu