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Attorney Licensure and the Impaired Professional

$197.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will guide counsel on recognizing the impaired professional and will offer resources and wellness tips. The panel will also discuss potential disciplinary actions the impaired professional's conduct may trigger.

Description

Substance use disorders and mental health challenges can affect any attorney regardless of gender, culture, ethnicity, age, or socioeconomic status. This program, taught by seasoned attorneys Laurie Besden and Tracy Kepler, instructs attorneys on how to recognize the impaired professional, provides various resources to assist in the recovery and identifies the possible disciplinary implications of impaired attorneys' conduct. Ms. Besden will share her personal journey from the darkness and depths of despair in struggling with a substance use disorder as a licensed attorney, to her path of long-term recovery, where she received a full Governor's Pardon in 2020.

Specialty credit information:

  • This webinar qualifies for an ethics credit in Alaska, Connecticut, Guam, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and the Virgin Islands.
  • This webinar qualifies for a professional responsibility credit in Arizona.
  • This webinar qualifies for a competence - prevention and detection credit in California.
  • This webinar qualifies a mental health/substance abuse credit in Illinois.


Credit Information

  • This 60-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.0 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Tuesday, October 29, 2024

  • schedule

    1:00 PM E.T.

I. The road to redemption

II. The data

III. General do's and don'ts

IV. What can firms do?

V. What can one person do?

The panel will review these and other important issues:

  • Explore substance use disorders and mental health challenges as medical diagnoses and how their prevalence rates affect the legal professional - as told by one of the presenters, who is in long-term recovery, herself
  • Identify warning signs of, and learn how to begin the conversation with an impaired attorney
  • Discern the interface between potential attorney disciplinary action and impairment as well as possible reporting obligations
  • Identify confidential, safe, free, and supportive resources available to the impaired legal professional, their family members, and their colleagues
  • Apply wellness tips that attorneys can apply in daily life, without much effort, that will positively impact mental health, in both the personal and professional realms