EFFECTS OF INVISIBLE DISABILITIES ON LAWYERS WORK

Abstract

The paper is aimed to draw professionals’ and public attention to the difficulties facing lawyers with the so called non-visible disabilities (NVD) as a way to tackle them successful. Contemporary disability terms are defined. Based on case studies and interviews work demands of lawyers are analyzed and highlight in their interaction with their non-visible disabilities. They result in serious challenges in various life aspects – learning disabilities and general difficulties in academic development, employment and every day work performance with successive success and failure cycles, in social relations, self-image and self-esteem. Traced are as the advantages of lawyers with invisible disabilities as well as techniques to cope with them to both side satisfaction and benefit – individual with disability and client, including also social and family relations and socioeconomic development.

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Ronit Zats, Bistra Tzenova

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Ronit Zats, Bistra Tzenova (2017). EFFECTS OF INVISIBLE DISABILITIES ON LAWYERS WORK. Българско списание за обществено здраве (Bulgarian Journal of Public Health), 0(4), 52-62. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-473309