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• Performance Standards Governing the Representation of Clients in Civil Commitment Proceedings

• Complaint in Connecticut v. Eli Lilly (Zyprexa), Case No. CV 08-955, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, Judge Jack Weinstein presiding.

• Advocacy Unlimited, directed and controlled by persons with psychiatric disabilities or people who are in recovery, formerly known as the Community Advocacy Education Division (CAED), a branch of the Connecticut Legal Rights Project(CLRP), Inc. CAED was established in 1994 to educate individuals with psychiatric disabilities in areas of self, systems, and legislative advocacy skills. The CLRP is a nonprofit agency providing legal services in matters relating to clients’ psychiatric disabilities whether they are in the hospitals or in the community."

• Group probes mentally ill in nursing homes, Boston.Com, December 4, 2005.

• Mental Health Inquiry Is Halved for Conn. Bar Applicants

  The Connecticut Law Tribune  October 23, 2006

  Beginning in February, Connecticut Bar exam applicants will be asked to reveal mental health issues that occurred within the previous five years rather than the previous 10, as the inquiry now requires. "It was a way for the committee to tweak the application to make it as least invasive as possible," says Anne Dranginis, chairwoman of a subcommittee that analyzes the application questions. But opponents of the questioning say the screening process should focus more on current conduct than personal history.

  http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1161606919527

   

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