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This week’s feature lawyer assistance program is MOLAP: the  Missouri Lawyers Assistance Program. MOLAP provides free, confidential services to members of the Missouri bar, their families, and law students. Counselling, lawyer support groups, addiction interventions, crisis interventions, and education are MOLAP’s main services. MOLAP’s website includes personal stories, self-screening questionnaires, the MOLAP newsletter, and articles [...]

This week, we’re spotlighting Mississippi’s Lawyer Assistance Program, the Lawyers and Judges Assistance Program (LJAP). Providing confidential assistance, the program offers services such as: Law & Life:  Enjoy Both – a wellness program for the legal profession Support Groups (including stress support groups, Lawyers in Recovery, The MS Bar Annual Convention) Lawyers in Transition – [...]

This week’s LAP is Minnesota’s Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (MNLCL). MNLCL provides a Lawyers’ Assistance Program that helps students, lawyers and judges deal with alcohol and drug abuse, addiction, mental health issues, stress, and “any condition which negatively affects the quality of one’s life at work or at home”. Among the services MNLCL offers are [...]

The latest issue of the ABA’s Law Practice Today webzine includes an article by Sheila Blackford entitled “Dealing with Impaired Attorneys“. The article details how the current economic downtown means more stress for lawyers, who as a professional may already be more susceptible to alcohol dependence. Depression, too, is common among attorneys, and generally under-diagnosed. [...]

The Lawyers and Judges Assistance Program (LJAP)  is Michigan’s lawyers assistance program. LJAP helps lawyers, judges, their families, and employees of the State Bar with issues related to emotional and mental health, substance abuse, gambling, family crises, stress, and other struggles. LJAP is run by licensed and certified mental health and addiction professionals who provide [...]

Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL) is Massachusetts’ lawyer assistance program, and has been helping lawyers, students, and judges and their families since 1978. LCL’s website is full of useful information: self-tests, articles, etc., on topics ranging from alcohol and drugs abuse to depression, career concerns to stress and burnout. There’s also an interesting Q&A section [...]

The Maryland Lawyer Assistance Program (LAP) is a committee of the Maryland State Bar Association, and provides confidential, professional assistance to the legal community. LAP offers a weekly “12 Step Professional’s Support Group Meeting” in Baltimore. The program website includes extensive links and articles on topics such as grief, anger, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, illness, substance abuse [...]

This week’s LAP is a relatively new one. The Maine Assistance Program for Lawyers and Judges (MAP) was created in 2002, and has three purposes: to protect clients, assist members, and educate the bench, bar, and public about impairment in the legal profession. The program “was established to prevent or alleviate problems before they jeopardize [...]

The Louisiana Lawyers Assistance Program (LAP) provides confidential assistance to members of the Bar who are struggling with alcohol or drug abuse, gambling, and mental health issues. Lawyers and judges can obtain immediate and absolutely confidential help from a group of other lawyers, at least one of whom is recovering from the same impairment. The [...]

Established by Kentucky’s Supreme Court Rules, the Kentucky Lawyer Assistance Program (KYLAP) aims to “address impairment or potential impairment issues within the Kentucky legal community and to offer confidential assistance to those who are affected in a manner that serves to help insure a continuing high standard of professional competence. “ While the KYLAP website [...]