1E

Place: Westmoreland Bar Association and via Zoom

08/22/2024
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Course Objectives:

1. Recognize that one in three legal professionals will struggle with substance use and/or a mental health disorder at some point in their legal careers.
2. Spot the signs of impairment and learn the "Motivational Interventions" approach that yields results and saves lives.
3. Utilize the confidential, free, safe, and supportive services that are available through the lawyers’ assistance programs throughout the United States.
4. The barriers that exist that prevent lawyers and judges from asking for help with an alcohol or substance misuse or mental health disorder.
5. Identify the parameters of Rule of Professional Conduct 8.3 (c) – and the safe harbor that it provides to protect attorneys working with an approved lawyers’ assistance program or who contact a lawyers assistance program on behalf of an attorney or judge who is struggling.

Speaker:

Brian S. Quinn, Esquire

Education and Outreach Coordinator

Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of PA, Inc