In the Vermont House Judiciary section of the legislative website, two bills dealing with competency are listed. H.251 was ...

Well, let’s start with some plain English, shall we? Webster’s Dictionary says that competency is the “possession of sufficient knowledge or skill.” To do what, it doesn’t say. Insanity, on the other ...

A months-long waiting list for court-ordered competency evaluations in South Dakota threatens to violate the constitutional rights of defendants. A coalition of groups led by the American Civil ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WGN’s Brian Waterkotte joins Rich Lenkov ...

Claudia Bunch Dallas walked into an Alachua County courtroom one recent morning, ready to listen as several people once again debated her mental state. At issue was whether she was competent to stand ...

The Colin Ferguson case isn’t over. It’s just begun. Years from now, politicians and law professors, attorneys and judges, crime victims, talk-show hosts and other people will still be arguing about ...

A substantial portion of today's legal practice is conducted digitally and on-line. Attorneys generate, collect, store and use an abundance of client confidential information, personally identifiable ...

The long-offered and frequently invoked justification for the bar exam is that the public must be protected from legal incompetence. That is a legitimate, worthy, and necessary concern. Incompetent ...

Question: "My father is 95 years old and has Dementia/Alzheimer's. He cannot read or write, but recently granted Power of Attorney for his finances to my older brother. This was done in secrecy and ...