Description
Learn key strategies that can help safeguard your personal life from the constant use of technology.Workers today are ‘never turned off.’ Like our mobile phones, we only go on standby at the end of the day as we crawl into bed, exhausted. Gradual, incremental increases in responsibilities, duties, pressures and demands at home and work combined with long workdays and weeks have placed our profession at risk. At some point, work may dominate our lives and keep us at a chronically high level of distress, yet we are often unaware that we have lost balance in our lives. Since it doesn’t appear that the ‘alwayson’ culture will be switching off any time soon, we need to develop key strategies that can help safeguard our personal life. Recent studies have shown that there has been a dramatic increase in impairment due to alcoholism, addiction, and mental health disorders among members of the legal profession. The statistics are compelling and indicate that 1 out of 3 attorneys will likely need substance use or mental health services at some point in their careers. And technology? What role does it play in perpetuating this public health crisis? Attorney Brian S. Quinn is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of Pennsylvania. He will discuss the already high prevalence rates of alcohol and substance misuse among lawyers and how mental health issues have taken the forefront, with special emphasis on stress, anxiety, and trauma, including the mental health impact of technology in the postCOVID19 world. This course will explain the free services that Lawyers Assistance Programs provide to lawyers, judges, their family members, and law students and a close look at what barriers exist that prevent lawyers and judges from seeking the help they need. It is critical that attorneys understand the role that education plays in breaking the stigma and fear associated with addiction and mental illness in the legal profession. This program will assist attorneys in taking a much closer look at the ethical challenges created by the imposed isolation of the pandemic, including the role technology plays, and its possible longlasting effect on the legal profession.
Date: 2022-11-07 Start Time: End Time:
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