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The Needs and Concerns of Victims of Crime in Ireland: Justice asAccommodationShane Kilcommins, University College Cork (s.kilcommins@ucc.ie)If the “paradigm of prosecution” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the victims ofcrime, the story of criminal justice and criminal for much of the 19th and 20th centuries mightbest be told as the rise of institutionalized justice. This new institutional pattern quicklytranscended the victim’s interaction with the crime conflict. Within such a depersonalized,bureaucratized system, the victim’s space for negotiation and participation in pursuing his or herown interests was dismantled. From being a cornerstone in the regulation of relations concerningthe conflict, victims increasingly found their individual experiences (such a vital currency in thepursuit of justice in the pre-modern era) assimilated into general group will – the public interest.This marked the shift from victim-mediated justice to bureaucratized State/accused mediatedjustice. But State/accused mediated justice is now beginning to creak and strain, however, asnewly “discovered” competing narratives emerged. Justice is thus partially being reconstructedin Ireland as it demonstrates, among other things, an increased sensitivity to the influx of newissues and value orientations and a willingness to accommodate a range of standpoints ratherthan engage in debilitating stereotyping. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the increasedaccommodation of victims employing therapeutic jurisprudence as a throughline.215. The Well-Being of LawyersLawyer-Client Relationships and WellbeingPaola Cecchi Dimeglio, Harvard Law School (pcecchidimeglio@law.harvard.edu)Over the last decade there has been increasing attention paid to the relationship between lawyerclientrelationships and wellbeing. A growing body of literature demonstrates that lawyers as agroup score lower on wellbeing questionnaires than other professionals. Other studies on healthand wellbeing in the workplace demonstrate a positive correlation between the level ofunhappiness of lawyers and their client’s satisfaction and vice-versa. This study investigates therelationship between lawyer’s happiness levels and client’s satisfaction levels.To draw lessons for the legal profession, this paper compares empirical findings on wellbeing inthe lawyer-client relationship with findings on client-lawyer experiences.The Effects of Collaborative Lawyering on Lawyers’ WellbeingPeter Kamminga, VU University (y.p.kamminga@vu.nl)518