• videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month June 30, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel Ethics and Specialty Credits
  • schedule 90 minutes

Attorney Licensure and the Impaired Professional

Recognizing Warning Signs, Navigating Ethical Duties and Disciplinary Risk, Finding Support

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will examine attorney impairment from substance use disorders and mental health challenges. The panel will discuss how impairment affects competence and professional responsibility and best practices for firm and colleague response. The experts will outline warning signs, early intervention, and how impairment implicates disciplinary processes, reporting requirements, and client duties.

Description

The panel will explore recent survey data showing widespread mental health strain across the legal practice. As part of the discussion, Ms. Besden will share her personal account of substance use disorder, recovery, and reinstatement to the profession.

The panel will offer wellness and stress management practices and provide resources for confidential assistance options.

Listen as our panel explains how to recognize impairment, respond in a way that protects counsel and clients, navigate possible professional responsibility concerns, and connect attorneys and their families to supportive resources.

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

  • An excellent opportunity to earn Ethics CLE credits. Note: BARBRI cannot guarantee that this course will be approved for ethics credits in all states. To confirm, please contact our CLE department at pdservice@barbri.com.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Tuesday, June 30, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT

I. Introduction

A. Substance use disorders and mental health challenges in the legal profession

B. Recent data: stress, burnout, disconnection, well-being

C. Beyond the personal: impairment as a client-service risk

II. Recognizing the impaired professional: warning signs and behaviors

III. Appropriate intervention practices

IV. Professional responsibility, licensure, and discipline

V. Recovery resources and support systems

VI. Practical wellness strategies for lawyers

VII. Practitioner takeaways

The panel will explore these and other key areas:

  • Conclusions in recent data
  • Behaviors, performance issues, and flags signaling possible attorney impairment
  • Conversations in a practical, supportive, and effective manner
  • Effect on competence, client representation, and resulting withdrawal obligations
  • Disciplinary and reporting issues
  • Lawyer assistance programs and other confidential resources for practitioners, family, and colleagues
  • Wellness and stress-reduction practices to sustain recovery