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This study investigates the activities requiring the most important decisions for lawyers during a typical professional day. The sample was composed of ten lawyers and ten non-legal professionals to compare different working groups. Daily journals (DDs) were used to gather behavioral information about the type of activities that require varying levels of relevance in terms of decision making and the time of day when professionals make these important decisions. Qualitative findings suggested decisions are mainly taken in relation to leisure, work and planning activities. For both groups, more relevant decisions were taken in the morning compared to afternoon and evening, and more in relation to work compared with leisure activities. Interestingly, the group of lawyers reported a greater relevance for decisions related to planning activities compared to work activities. At the practical level, this evidence could guide the organization of work activities made by the institutions, e.g. recommending that tasks requiring decision making are placed in strategic time slots. For lawyers, the moment in which they plan their activities consists in the phase in which the fate of their work is really played: meeting with counterparts, act/opinion/warning drafting, legal advice, and consulting are all legal actions that require important decisions for them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book is structured in three parts: (1) the state of the client "but for" the brain injury, focussing on the premorbid state of the client preceding the injury; (2) the current condition of the client, focusing on issues including methodology, reliability, validity, dose-response relationships, the frontal paradox, and capacity, financial and litigation-related decision-making in brain injured clients; and (3) the final section of the book which focuses on loss, disability and impact, including aspects relevant to the determination of the quantum both at a theoretical and practical level and culminating in a synthesis of all of the material presented throughout the book into a contemporary framework for medicolegal formulation. Neuropsychological Aspects of Brain Injury Litigation: A Medicolegal Handbook for Lawyers and Clinicians: Edited by Phil S Moore, Shereen Brifcani and Andrew Worthington Routledge, 2021, 254 pp., £39.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780367616274, 0367616270 Charles and Johnson's introductory chapter on legal principles and litigation surveys the legal context for the dispute and explores how the neuropsychological evidence fits within this. [Extracted from the article]