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Can lawyers and traumatized clients learn to trust each other?


Can Lawyers and Traumatized Clients Learn to Trust Each Other?
Teaching the legal profession to understand the effects of trauma.
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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 the case.
Her client, a diminutive Black woman, sat in one of the clinic’s tiny rooms, crying as she delved into a story plagued by gaps in logic and facts. The woman’s husband had physically and sexually abused her, then pimped her into prostitution so he could feed his cocaine addiction. In all that abuse, she had self-medicated with drugs, too, she revealed in a quiet ....

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