New case intakes for the State Bar of California’s Lawyer Assistance Program for attorneys struggling with substance abuse or mental health issues jumped 36% from 2020 to 2021.
That spike from 141 cases in 2020 to 192 last year, was “the largest one year percentage increase in the LAP’s history” said Lisa Chavez, director of the bar’s Office of Research and Institutional Accountability. The LAP was created by the California Legislature in 2002.
The climb in new cases coincided with the second full-year of the coronavirus pandemic, according to California state bar defense counsel Susan L. Margolis of Margolis & ...
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