Intervention Strategies for Helping Legal Professionals - A 2025 Update

05 Aug , 2025

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With the alarming prevalence of substance use and mental health disorders in the legal profession, it is imperative that we are all armed with the knowledge and insight of how-to best approach someone who may be struggling. Certain approaches yield greater results than others. While many of us have viewed the "Intervention" show on television, Johnson style interventions don't typically produce excellent results. No one likes to be told what is 'wrong' with them, including hearing a 'laundry list' of their concerning behaviors. Language is key when approaching someone you care about and having them be able to "hear" what you are saying without getting defensive. The window of opportunity to help someone is so small. With the alarming number of suicides in our profession, it tells us that people would rather die than ask for help - and this must stop. We are bringing you this program as part and parcel of the solution. 

This important updated program, led by Laurie J. Besden, Esq., Executive Director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of Pennsylvania, Inc., a person in long term recovery from an addiction that nearly cost her her life, will share strategies that work when you approach someone you feel may be impaired. Ms. Besden will also share real examples that she has handled through her work with LCL and what could have been done differently to yield different results. She will also share her own addiction and recovery story to further emphasize what did and did not work in her firsthand experience.

Learning Objectives:

Recognize that one in three legal professionals will struggle with substance use and/or a mental health disorder at some point in their legal careers.

Appreciate that substance use and mental health disorders are medical diagnoses. Substance use and mental health disorders are also chronic, progressive, and fatal if untreated, though the prognosis for recovery is excellent if help is sought.

Spot the signs of impairment and learn the "Motivational Interventions" approach that yields results and saves lives.

Utilize the confidential, free, safe, and supportive resources that are available through the lawyer’s assistance programs throughout the United States.

 

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