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The average survival rate is eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s — some live as few as three years after diagnosis, while others live as long as 20. Most people with Alzheimer’s don’t die from the disease itself, but from pneumonia, a urinary tract infection or complications from a fall. Until there’s a cure, people with the disease will need caregiving and legal advice. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, approximately one in ten families has a relative with this disease. Of the four million people living in the U.S. with Alzheimer’s disease, the majority live at home — often receiving care from family members.
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To be 73 years old with a child in college and another at age 15 would not be fun. But it is a sociological trend, and it is not going away. I am also seeing more women get in trouble for petty theft. Interestingly enough, these women are not poor; in fact, they are educated from top schools and have the money to pay for what they steal. I think it is stress related and is likely compulsive. Lawyers getting in fights or DUIs because they are on prescription drugs is making a comeback—I guess it never went away—with lawyers forgetting that they have to be fit to practice and it makes no difference if the drugs are prescribed by a doctor. A DUI is a DUI. Last but certainly not least is the downloading of illegal pornography. Usually it is child porn, and arises in the context of the lawyer downloading non-child porn but images of a child are embedded. The Feds know their way around the Internet, and even if you have no intent, if an image of a child comes in the batch you download and you are caught, you are interim suspended from the practice of law. Not the best way to build your business. And in law schools we are seeing more and more schools teaching marijuana law (wish that was taught when I went to law school. Kidding!), while law firms are merging up a storm and students are back in force to law schools. All good. s Carol M. Langford is a lawyer in Walnut Creek who specializes in representing lawyers and law students before the State Bar. She is also a lecturer at Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley School of Law.