Your Privacy
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Summary of "Your Privacy"
Attorney Irwin Zalkin speaks about issues of privacy during an abuse lawsuit. |
Video Transcript:
In our experience, someone who's been abused as a child and is now dealing with it as an adult for example may have a very difficult time with public attention to the fact that this happened to them and they would like to try to maintain as much privacy as they can. Others are the exact opposite, they're angry. They want it to be known that they were abused. They want it to be known that they are going to do something about it.
Both are very legitimate approaches and positions really depending on how that person feels. We will do everything possible to satisfy both of those positions. If we have a client who wants this to be a cause of theirs, to make it known, to be public about it and deal with media and that sort of thing, that is something we do and we do that well. If a person prefers to be private we will do everything possible to maintain the privacy of that individual, to keep them, their identity fictitious.
Some states will allow that, if we file a lawsuit, they will allow us to use a fictitious name. Other states are less permissive about that. In almost every case that a person prefers their name not to be used, we will go to every extreme to make that, to keep their name private. Even at times when they give testimony there are ways in which the testimony can be given to maintain the privacy of that victims identity and we do that and we are.