Attorney Licensure and the Impaired Professional

21 Mar , 2022

To register for the upcoming live webinar, please Click Here

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 Tracy Kepler and Laurie Besden, instructs attorneys on how to recognize the impaired professional, provides various resources to assist in the recovery, and identifies the possible disciplinary implications of an impaired attorneys' conduct. 

Ms. Besden will share her personal journey from the darkness and depths of despair, while struggling with a substance use disorder, as a license attorney, to her path of long-term recovery, where she received a full Governor’s Pardon by Governor Wolf in 2020.

We will be discussing multiple Ethics rules, including; MRPC Rule 5.1 (a) & (b), NM RPC 16-501, MRPC Rule 8.3 (a) and (c), ABA FORMAL OPNINION 03-429 (2003), VA LEO 1886 (2016), D.C. LEO 377 (2019), and MRPC 1.1, 1.16 (a)(2).

 

To register for the upcoming live webinar, please Click Here

More Webcasts

Artificial Intellige...

"Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law" (updated through 2026), is a 50-slide primer desig...

Federal Contractor R...

During this course, you will learn about best practices and strategies for retaining intellectual pr...

Corporate Counsel’...

Class action litigation continues to expand in both number of filings and monetary exposure, with se...

The New Rules of DEI...

This program will discuss how to design and implement legally sound diversity, equity, and inclusion...

The Human Bottleneck...

AI tools are advancing faster than legal organizations can absorb them. This program examines why th...

Discovery: Practical...

This program provides a practical roadmap to mastering every stage of the discovery process in civil...

New York City’s Pi...

New York City’s new Non-Primary Residence Property Surcharge—commonly known as the pied-...

How to Respond to Sh...

Adverse and derogatory information often has devastating effects on a contractor's ability to win co...

Key Trends In Privac...

Data privacy remains one of the most rapid areas of growth in the class action space. Plaintiffs con...

Defense Strategies f...

Class action waivers in arbitration agreements remain enforceable, but a decade of U.S. Supreme Cour...