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Dangerous Clients: What to Do
When he lost a custody fight for his three children, accountant Nicholas A. Lucarella hired two hit men to get revenge ' against his own lawyer, Peter Paras of Red Bank, NJ. Shortly after meeting with Paras about a phony custody case, the men ran him down with a Jeep in his office parking lot.
Divorce lawyers are more often the objects of violence and threats of violence than any other group of attorneys. A 1997 survey of ABA Family Law Section members found that 60% of respondents had been threatened by adverse parties; 17% by their own clients. Twelve percent had actually been assaulted by a client or opposing party. Remarkably, only a quarter of these respondents took steps to protect their safety. There is a natural reluctance to recognize danger, and this is partly because most of us have no realistic idea how to protect ourselves.
J. Reid Meloy, PhD, is among the nation's leading experts on violence and threats of violence. In talks to professional audiences ranging from law enforcement to mental-health professionals, he emphasizes how the scientific study of violence leads to practical means of self-protection. (A complete list of his books, videos and papers can be found on his Web site: www.forensis.org.) Meloy emphasizes three factors that help to prevent violence: the different types of aggression, assessing the risk, and steps to self-protection.
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