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All contact with NHLAP is confidential

(603) 545-8967 or

(877) 224-6060.

Your call will be personally answered, or your confidential message promptly returned.

 

 

NHLAP EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS: To schedule a program for your group or receive more information on NHLAP contact:

Cecie Hartigan

(603) 545-8967 or (877) 224-6060. 

 


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.

Under Supreme Court Rule 58, NHLAP treats all contact, whether with lawyers, judges, law students, or concerned third parties, with confidentiality. We are 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 support for adressing 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.

 

                                                                                   EVENTS

*****Volunteer Training: Oct 29, 2011. McLane Law Firm, Manchester, 8:30-2 pm. 1 Ethics credit; no charge.*****

Open to all lawyers, judges, law students interested in learning about the LAP mission or offering peer support to another.

Call 800-224-6060 to register

TrainingFlier

Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers: Second Tuesday of each month, Manchester, 6:00 pm, Manchester Country Club. Please feel free to call for info.

Mental Health Support Group for Lawyers: Meets every other Thursday at 6:00 pm in Concord. Please call for location.
2012 ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs (CoLAP) Annual Conference: Save the Date: October, 2012, Grand Rapids. MI

 

ARTICLES and LINKS

NHLAP Video: link above right

lawyerswithdepression.com: An excellent resource created by lawyer Dan Lukasik

Depression and the Parable of the Boiling Frog by Doreen A. Diego

How Did I Get Here? by Laura Gatrell

New Law Student Video: http://www.wcl.american.edu/go/ghsh:  username:ghsh; password: jaffe

 

 

                           Whether you believe that you yourself may be in need of help, or you are concerned for someone else,

                                                                                     do not  hesitate to call.

                                                                          Helpline 877-224-6060 or 603-545-8967.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation

Herbert Spencer