LCLMA Staff Clinician Jeff Fortgang, PhD, LADC-I discusses findings from the recently published study on lawyer well-being in Massachusetts conducted in collaboration with NORC at the University of Chicago. Hot off the press is the report of results of…
LCL Staff Clinician Dr. Jeff Fortgang comments on the Boston Globe's article about Mayor Michelle Wu's mental health having been targeted by online rumors. Rumors about Boston Mayor Michelle Wu being treated for a panic attack and questioning her…
Common questions about drinking habits and how to address them can often be shifted to whether you experience "loss of control" -- Find out what that means and more below. The video embedded below was produced by the Northeast Chapter…
Therapists are in short supply and we can't fix the problem -- but we're still here to help legal professionals in Massachusetts. For most of my 23 years at Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, I’ve been encouraging lawyers to get…
REVIEW OF FINDINGS:
LCL SURVEY ON DEPRESSION IN LAWYERS, 2018
With the recent publication of our ABA book, The Full Weight of the Law: How Legal Professionals Can Recognize and Rebound from Depression, co-author Shawn Healy and I were invited to make a presentation on depression in lawyers at the 2018 National Conference for Lawyer Assistance Programs in September 2018.
Feel free to leave a voice-mail or send an email, and we'll get back to you when the office reopens, presumably on Wednesday.
In addition to the very good and comprehensive list of tips provided by our Nov 22 blog post from my colleagues Barbara Bowe and Shawn Healy, you may enjoy listening to this perspective on sober holidays from Sarah Hepola, the…
Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL) of Massachusetts, like the lawyer assistance programs in all 50 states, is in many ways based on the model of the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which grew out of the early growth of the…
If you or your family member is a candidate for alcohol/drug rehab of the month-long (or longer) inpatient variety, we have noted in a previous blog post that your health insurance plan will probably not help you with the cost. So you are in the position of trying to make a choice as an “educated consumer.” This is not easy, even for us at LCL, since we make very few such referrals in this era when access to that level of care is beyond the means of most of our clients.
In 2013, Shaneka L. Davis, Esq. -- now a Director at the MBLA -- was a rising 3L, wanting to study the issues of stress, stress management, and overall work-life balance among both law students and lawyers. Shaneka conducted her…