The State Bar Association of North Dakota Fall 2015 Gavel Magazine | Page 14

Table 3: Perpetrators
of Threats/Assaults

# of Respondents

Percentage

Client
27
25.0
Relative/Associate of Client
5
5.6
Opposing Party
57
52.8
Relative/Associate
5
4.6
of Opposing Party
Opposing Counsel
2
1.9
Unknown
3
2.8
Other
9
8.3
Total 108 100%
Threats and Subsequent
Relationship with the
Assaults
Perpetrator of Threats/Assaults
Attorneys who received threats were asked
to identify if the individual who made the
threat was the same person, or connected
to the person, who most recently assaulted
them. Of 108 responses, only five incidents
of subsequent physical assaults were reported,
and only an additional one respondent could
not identify whether the assault was related to
the threat.

Recipients of threats and violence were also
asked to identify their association with the
individual who most recently threatened/
assaulted them. See Table 3. Similar to
the surveys conducted in other states