In the Client’s Best Interest: An Attorney’s Guide to Clients Who Batter

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by David Adams & Stephen Russo

Provides guidelines for attorneys who represent people who have abused their partner. Includes a brief profile of abuser characteristics, their tendencies when facing legal actions, and advice for attorneys on how to decrease the odds of further abuse and help their clients recognize their long-term interests. Discusses characteristics of state-certified batterer intervention programs (now called Intimate Partner Abuse Education Programs in Massachusetts).

[Published in S. Swihart (editors) Florida Domestic Violence Law, Tallahassee: FL: Florida Bar, 1996]

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by David Adams & Stephen Russo

Provides guidelines for attorneys who represent people who have abused their partner. Includes a brief profile of abuser characteristics, their tendencies when facing legal actions, and advice for attorneys on how to decrease the odds of further abuse and help their clients recognize their long-term interests. Discusses characteristics of state-certified batterer intervention programs (now called Intimate Partner Abuse Education Programs in Massachusetts).

[Published in S. Swihart (editors) Florida Domestic Violence Law, Tallahassee: FL: Florida Bar, 1996]

by David Adams & Stephen Russo

Provides guidelines for attorneys who represent people who have abused their partner. Includes a brief profile of abuser characteristics, their tendencies when facing legal actions, and advice for attorneys on how to decrease the odds of further abuse and help their clients recognize their long-term interests. Discusses characteristics of state-certified batterer intervention programs (now called Intimate Partner Abuse Education Programs in Massachusetts).

[Published in S. Swihart (editors) Florida Domestic Violence Law, Tallahassee: FL: Florida Bar, 1996]