Mental Illness
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Health / Wellness
Who’s Responsible For The Death Of Jordan Neely?
There is a good way and a bad way to engage a person suffering a crisis of mental illness. -
Crime, Health / Wellness
Committing A Crime While Mentally Ill: What Qualifies As ‘Extraordinary’?
Why saddle these defendants with felony convictions when their behavior was not due to criminal intent, but rather, mental illness? - Sponsored
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Health / Wellness
How To Help Stop Someone With Mental Illness From Getting Arrested
Assisted Outpatient Treatment programs compel treatment for a person suffering from serious mental illness before the illness prompts violence.
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Labor / Employment, On The Job
Lessons From '30 Rock' On Mental Illness
The show highlights a very real issue faced by many employees and employers in the workplace: mental illness. -
Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Sponsored Content
Aging Clients, Sustainable Success And Sports Law
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Crime, Health Care / Medicine
Criminally Yours: Psychotic Episodes And The Criminal Justice System
Even if the crime was committed while you were out of your mind, coming from a good family, having a college degree, and lacking a criminal record will not insulate you from the various circles of hell of the criminal justice system. -
Crime, Guns / Firearms
Criminally Yours: Mental Illness And Guns
How do we guard against people on the verge of psychotic breaks buying guns? -
Health Care / Medicine, Suicide, Videos
Lawyers And Depression: An Interesting Issue
Is it appropriate for bar admission character and fitness review to delve into a candidate's mental health history? - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Crime
Criminally Yours: Lenny
Mental illness is always a struggle, but without support networks it can land a person in jail for life. -
Rankings
Research Confirms: You're Probably A Psychopath
It's probably a good idea to lock up the knives around attorneys. -
Police
Kentucky Police Are Completely Awful
Local police spring a prisoner and send him on a one-way trip out of state... despite a court order. -
Police, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Supreme Court To Decide On ADA and Fourth Amendment Issues In Police Shootings
It's about time that we focused more on how law enforcement officers deal with the mentally ill, according to columnist Renwei Chung. -
Minority Issues, Racism
How The Killing Of A Mentally Ill Man In Milwaukee Triggered The Starbucks 'Race Together' Initiative
Columnist Renwei Chung explains how a murder in Milwaukee last April may have triggered Starbucks’s consciousness on race relations in America.
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Celebrities, Crime, Drugs, Health Care / Medicine, Job Searches, Law Schools, Marijuana, Morning Docket, Sentencing Law
Morning Docket: 10.14.14
* Law schools are in trouble, but Cooley Law is “going strong” — after all, only “28 percent of last year’s graduates at its Michigan campuses failed to land jobs as lawyers within nine months.” You’re really doing it wrong. [Tampa Bay Times]
* This guy broke into the University of Oregon School of Law three times, and all he got were these computers for hipsters and a crappy 11-year sentence. (He should’ve broken into the football facility for better loot.) [Register-Guard]
* Should you go to law school if you know for a fact that you don’t want to be a lawyer? This is the type of question that would render your ATL editors unable to even. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]
* Amanda Bynes has been placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold, and people suddenly care about mental health law. It’s sad that it takes a celebrity to make people care about these issues. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Marijuana is making its way to the ballot in some states this November, but before you vote, here’s a primer on where it’s legal to smoke weed, where it might be, and where it’s not. [Washington Post]
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Celebrities, Lunacy, Quote of the Day
Amanda Bynes Has Crazy Conservatorship Drama
What are her parents thinking? -
Blogging, Facebook, Health Care / Medicine, Social Media
Preventing Depression Among Lawyers
Can effective use of social media help prevent depression for many lawyers? -
Crime, Kids, Murder, Technology, Violence
'Stabby, Stab, Stab': What Inspired Two Preteen Girls To Attempt Murder?
What motivated the horrific chain of events in the Slenderman stabbings? The answer can be found on the internet… -
Asians, Guns / Firearms, Intellectual Property, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Media and Journalism, Murder, New York Times, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.15.14
* “Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury, if my client was the shooter, why would he have left the witness alive to testify? He’s a man who finishes the damn job.” [ABA Journal] * Who would pretend to be a lawyer who is not? Apparently this public figure. [Legal Cheek] * Jill Abramson is out at the New York Times. Could the reason be her decision to lawyer up? [Law and More] * If you’ve hung around ATL long enough, you’ve heard us speculate that it just doesn’t make economic sense to attend most law schools. Here’s proof — only about 50 are even worth it economically. Which is hard to believe because I thought law degrees were worth $1 million. [TaxProf Blog] * Lawyers get depressed, and not talking about it makes it worse. [Everyday Health] * Seven-year-old kids are developing health problems from picking tobacco, because we let children work on tobacco farms apparently. [Slate] * The Asian American Bar Association will be conducting a trial reenactment of 22 Lewd Chinese Women next Wednesday. Register here! [AABANY] * As the new movie comes out, lawyers are really worked up over the Godzilla intellectual property. They need to hire Jorge Rivers: Godzilla Lawyer, whose ad appears after the jump (starring Thomas Lennon)…. [The Columbus Dispatch] -
Education / Schools, Suicide
Is There A Right To Be Suicidal On Campus?
At what point can a university remove you from campus because you are suicidal? -
Boutique Law Firms, Labor / Employment, Litigators, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Small Law Firms, Women's Issues
Alexandra Marchuk v. Faruqi & Faruqi: A Mental Case?
What's the latest news in the salacious case of Marchuk v. Faruqi & Faruqi?