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This week, we spotlight two separate lawyer assistance programs in North Carolina: the North Carolina Lawyer Assistance Program and BarCares. The Lawyer Assistance Program (LAP) website lists a host of services including peer counselling, extensive resource links, many articles and newsletters, as well as research papers. Addiction and depression are two frequent areas of support. [...]

This week, we’re focusing on the New York State Bar Association’s Lawyer Assistance Program (LAP). The LAP “provides education and confidential assistance to lawyers, judges, law school students, and immediate family members who are affected by the problem of substance abuse, stress, or depression. Its goal is to assist in the prevention, early identification and [...]

The New Hampshire Lawyers Assistance Program (NHLAP) was formed in 2007, the culmination of 20 years’ volunteer commitment by two separate bodies: the Lawyers Assistance Committee of the New Hampshire Bar Association (LAC), and Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL). NHLAP provides advice and assistance to members of the Bar, offers educational programs on mental health [...]

This week’s featured lawyer assistance program is New Mexico’s Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, which “provides confidential professional peer assistance to Bar members in need of help because of substance abuse, mental illness, or emotional distress and provides advice regarding the State Bar program.” Run by the Lawyers Assistance Committee of the State Bar of New [...]

This week’s feature LAP program is the New Jersey Lawyers Assistance Program (NJLAP). Its purpose is “to provide assistance to attorneys, members of the judiciary, law students, and law graduates with alcohol, drug, gambling, emotional, behavioral and other personal problems that affect well-being and professional performance”. NJLAP offers confidential consultations, practice assistance, and support groups. [...]

Montana’s Lawyer Assistance Program is the State Bar of Montana’s Lawyers Helping Lawyers Committee. Its purpose is “to provide a statewide network of assistance to lawyers, judges, legal staff, law students, and professors troubled by alcoholism, other forms of chemical dependency, stress, depression, or mental health problems.” The Lawyers Helping Lawyers committee offers a confidential, [...]

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 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 [...]