Welcome to NHLAP

The New Hampshire Lawyers Assistance Program (NHLAP) provides confidential, meaningful assistance to lawyers, judges, law students and their families in coping with alcoholism and other addictions, depression, and other personal or professional crises.

Call NHLAP at any time. Your call will be personally answered, or your message promptly returned

(603) 545-8967; (877) 226-2020;

Under Supreme Court Rule 58, NHLAP treats each request for help with the same confidentiality as a lawyer-client relationship, and is exempt from reporting professional misconduct under Rule 8.3. Information between NHLAP employees and volunteers, and a lawyer, judge or law student who seeks assistance, is strictly confidential and will not be disclosed except upon express authority of the affected person.

NHLAP can assist New Hampshire lawyers, judges and law students by:

• Providing advice on coping with mental health and addiction problems.
• Putting you in touch with one of our extensive network of trained volunteer lawyers, even on nights and weekends, when you need to talk to someone who has faced problems like yours.
• Helping you find professional resources and treatment programs in your area or around the country.
• Presenting educational programs on mental health and addiction problems to local bar associations, law firms, judges and law students.
• Providing information on both traditional and non-traditional recovery programs.
• Helping to arrange for interventions in cases where a lawyer's problem is so overwhelming that it is interfering with his or her practice and personal life.
• Providing long-term monitoring and documentaton of recovery, including frequent interaction, drug testing, and immediate response to relapse.

NHLAP Educational Programs: To schedule a program for your group or receive more information on NHLAP contact Cecie Hartigan at (603) 545-8967 (877) 224-6060.    

Whether you believe that you yourself may be in need of help, or whether you are concerned for someone else, do not hesitate to call the NHLAP helpline at 877-224-6060 or 603-545-8967

Never underestimate  your problem
or your ability to deal with it

 Your call will be personally answered, or your message promptly returned. There is no downside to calling, and you just may get the help you need –

A burden shared is a burden cut in half