Professor Winick will be a speaker during a plenary session at a symposium entitled “Law as a Healing Profession: The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession,” hosted by Touro Law School on Sunday, November 4, 2007. the two-hour session is tentatively scheduled to begin at 11:10 a.m. The title of the session is “The Lawyer as Therapeutic Agent.”
Abstract: Increasingly, lawyers are finding ways to practice law in ways that minimize the antitherapeutic impact on their clients and maximize therapeutic approaches that enhance their clients’ wellbeing. This panel will identify a number of such approaches through the theoretical lens of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the implementation of such approaches by practicing lawyers.
Prof. Winick will also participate in a Breakout session entitled “Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence” based on his chapter, Overcoming Psychological Barriers to Settlement: Challenges for the TJ Lawyer” in The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession (Marjorie A. Silver, ed.) (2007).
