Law Practice
Aug. 6, 2013
Insidious movement targets elderly attorneys
Is it not likely that the next hapless group to be targeted for age-related cognitive impairment is ... judges? A person younger than I might have written "are ... judges."
Arthur Gilbert
Justice (ret.)
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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There is an insidious movement in the legal profession to undermine the elderly. I read about it in the Daily Journal. A State Bar panel is poised to require "older" lawyers, beginning at age 50 (the eligibility age for AARP), to take a mandatory continuing education course on recognizing cognitive impairment. Presumably this is based on the premise that with age comes mental deterioration. So, if th...
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