We Need a Trauma-Informed Legal System - The Good Men Project
When lawyers better understand trauma, clients are better able to seek justice.
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When lawyers better understand trauma, clients are better able to seek justice.
Can Lawyers and Traumatized Clients Learn to Trust Each Other? Teaching the legal profession to understand the effects of trauma. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by golubovy/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Kelly Young, a white law student at Temple University Law School in Philadelphia, comes from a neighborhood where “everybody pretty much has a house, has a job, has enough,” she said. So when one of her university’s law clinic clients shared a harrowing and complex narrative about how she had been physically and sexually abused, Young admits she felt “lost” about her next steps in th...