Connecticut Competence Issues/Substance Abuse MCLE Courses

This session explores the science and psychology of emotional labor, stress accumulation, and trauma exposure in legal settings.

This program explores how chronic stress, sleep deprivation, and substance use systematically impair the legal professional's brain's prefrontal cortex—the hub of ethical reasoning, memory, and judgment.

This program confronts the mental health issues lawyers have been faced with as a result of the epidemic and gives them the tools needed to combat negative impacts and stay on a path toward a healthy, purposeful, and productive lifestyle.

This program will dive into gambling addiction, including its warning signs, risks, co-morbidities, related ethical issues, and the toll it can take on the legal profession.

In this program, Judge Mary Beth O'Conner will share her personal story of addiction and recovery, and will give viewers tips, strategies and resources for battling addiction in their own lives.

Recent studies have shown a dramatic increase in impairment due to alcoholism, addiction and mental health disorders among attorneys. 1 out of 3 attorneys will likely have a need for substance use or mental health services. This program will address the issue and guide attorneys to the resources need to help themselves and/or their colleagues.

This program will teach attorneys how to structure a work/life balance that increases productivity and mitigate against many of the mental health issues common among law practitioners.

Substance abuse and mental health issues affect lawyers in the U.S. at a much greater rate than the general public. In this program, Laurie Besden, Executive Director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of PA, highlights the issue by giving own personal account of the drug addiction that caused her to be temporarily disbarred, had her imprisoned, and nearly destroyed her life.

In this timely and eye-opening program, executive coach and former entertainment lawyer Marlo Lyons, J.D., explores the neurobiology of loneliness, the hidden toll it takes on junior and senior attorneys alike, and how it contributes to burnout, substance misuse, and even suicidal ideation.

This program 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.