Thank you for Stepping Up with Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers!
LCL would like to thank the event sponsors, speakers, attendees and honorees. Together, we can Step Up for Well-Being in the profession.
Well-Being & Mental Health Activities
Well-Being and self-care strategies have significant potential to improve overall well-being in the profession. See the Well Being & Mental Health Activities Flyer for more information.
Suicide Prevention: Every Lawyer’s Opportunity
What are the signs and what can I say? This article will provide some guidance on reducing our risk. Additional resources are available here.
Just Ask: How We Must Stop Minding Our Own Business in the Legal World is a powerful suicide prevention video created by the Texas Lawyer Assistance program with the assistance of the Pennsylvania LAP. You may access the video and other suicide prevention resources here.
We recognize that content like this can be triggering for some. The video begins with a warning and offers support and encouragement to reach out to others.
Upcoming CLEs
Reducing Stigma to Avoid Chronic Stress and Burnout
Thursday, June 8, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
1.0 Hour Elimination of Bias Credit (486768) approved
Speaker: Judith Rush, Outreach Manager
Register Here.
Lawyers bring intellect, passion, and skill to their work, carry significant workloads, and work long hours in close relationship with others solving difficult problems. Lawyers seek justice and successful resolution for clients and others and fairness, meaning, and intrinsic and external rewards for themselves. These aspects of a lawyers’ work can cause chronic stress, resulting in burnout, poor physical health, or other health challenges. Effectively managing workplace stress is critical to lawyer health, competence, and ethical responsibility. Stigma attached to burnout and health concerns and implicit and explicit bias can make it difficult for lawyers to get help. This program explores what burnout is, how our work as legal professionals contributes to burnout, and how to head off burnout, break the stigma, and get help for burnout to regain our spark and enjoy our lives. Advance registration is required.
Clients in Crisis – Helping Yourselves, Helping Your Clients
Thursday, June 29, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
1.0 Ethics Credit (486827) applied for
Speaker: Chase Andersen, Case Manager
Register Here.
The last few years have disrupted lawyers’ professional and personal lives. Attorneys may feel like their lives seem out of control. Clients are affected too. Attorneys must manage their own emotions while being sensitive and responsive to their clients. This program will identify normal feelings, reactions, and behaviors, and when they are cause for concern. For some clients, reactions may rise to the level of impairment, including substance use, addiction, or other mental impairments. It is not a lawyer’s job to diagnose, yet a lawyer must act accordingly. What is the lawyer’s role, responsibility, and opportunity when working with a potentially impaired client? What if the issue is with a colleague? The answers are seldom simple and never easy. This program will provide an ethical framework as well as practical guidance and resources for lawyers facing these questions.
Recovery Support Meetings
LCL has a long history of supporting recovery through many avenues, although our roots are in the 12 Step tradition. While these listed groups are not “official” LCL groups, LCL does provide space and technological support for these weekly Recovery Support meetings.
Mondays, except holidays, at 12:15 p.m. via phone temporarily. This meeting follows the traditional 12 Steps framework. Call 651-646-5590 or 866-525-6466 or email us for information.
Please click here for other meeting links.
LCL CONNECTION GROUPS
LCL offers two check-in and support opportunities each week via Zoom videoconferencing. Open our LCL Resources and Connections June 2023 for more information and joining instructions.
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- The Path to Well-Being Group, Thursdays, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Career Support Group, Monday, June 12th, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Insights Newsletter – Pride Month
Pride Month is a mix of celebration, education, and activism. It’s an opportunity for LGBTQ+ individuals to celebrate who they are, their culture, and their contributions to society. It’s also an opportunity for everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the LGBTQ+ community, their history, and their challenges.
Learn more in this month’s article, “Recognizing and Celebrating Pride Month.“
Wellness Resources
Sand Creek EAP provides numerous resources covering a wide range of topics on its website. You can set up your own free account and access them on your own schedule. Click here to visit their site. Click the “Member Portal & App” button to sign in or create your new account. When creating your account, use “lawyers” as the Company Access Code.
Advance Notice of Upcoming CLEs & Events
We’ve had several requests from lawyers to provide email notifications of upcoming CLEs. So many, in fact, that we’ve developed a monthly email specifically for the purpose of letting people know what CLEs and events are planned, when they are scheduled, and registration information.
If you want to get on the mailing list, just provide the following information. You’ll receive an email from Vertical Response, the service we use, asking you to confirm your email address. You can cancel at any time by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link contained in each newsletter.