Illinois lawyers who determine another lawyer or judge is impaired due to mental, cognitive, or psychological reasons will be required to intervene and offer assistance if a proposed state Supreme Court rule is approved.
The proposal is one of four recommended changes to the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct scheduled to be discussed at a July 17 Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee public hearing in Chicago.
The Supreme Court Commission on Elder Law proposed the rule “to account for an aging lawyer population, a population where attorneys may be suffering more diminished capacity in greater numbers,” said James Grogan, a ...
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