Effective July 1, 2024, each Minnesota lawyer “must report no fewer than 1 hour of approved courses in mental health and substance use in the legal profession and in the practice of law.[1]” This requirement does not add credits but includes the new category in the already required 45 credits. LCL has long offered programs which can qualify for other categories of credit, and we are prepared to … [Read more...]
Advancing Access and Equity: October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)*
When she was ABA President, Paulette Brown spearheaded an implicit bias initiative and said, Implicit bias can be and is manifested toward those who suffer from mental health issues, depression, anxiety, and substance problems in our profession. Let’s review the data from the often-cited 2016 ABA/Hazelden study on mental health concerns: a fifth of lawyers drink in unhealthy ways, and 28% percent … [Read more...]
Making Time for Self-Care
There are countless aphorisms about self-care, ranging from the pithy to the profound. Many of these boil down to insufficient available time with the result being that, when it comes to self-care, many of us can’t seem to find the time. It’s understandable; there are always other priorities, urgent matters, other people’s needs, etc. There are only so many hours in a day. And so it goes, each day … [Read more...]