Chris Ritter - The Texas Lawyers Assistance Program (TLAP) provides confidential help for lawyers, law students and judges who have problems with wellness, including mental health and substance use problems. In addition to Chris’s legal education, he has a masters degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Before working for TLAP, Chris worked as a civil trial lawyer with a litigation practice focused on personal injury, governmental entity, and insurance law cases. Chris also handled significant litigation in cases involving forfeitures, contract disputes, commercial litigation, products liability, worker's compensation, oil and gas, fiduciary duty litigation, and administrative law.
We all know the practice of law is a stressful occupation. Annual surveys routinely place lawyers near the top of the list. With such stress tends to come the need for a coping response of equal magnitude. Sadly, many of these coping responses can be...