Meeting Our Responsibilities
Substance Abuse and Law Schools
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NEW YORK CITY CONFERENCE EXAMINES THE ROLE OF LAW
SCHOOLS IN ADDRESSING ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION
Over 140 individuals from 24 states and 36 law schools registered
to attend the conference"Meeting Our Responsibilities:
Substance Abuse and Law Schools" held on Tuesday, June
24 in New York City.
Keynote Speakers included the Honorable Judith S. Kaye,
Chief Judge, New York State Court of Appeals, and Joseph Bellacosa,
Dean of St. John's Law School (and former New York State Court of
Appeals Judge). Distinguished panelists included: James
C. Moore (NYS Lawyer Assistance Trust Chair); Robert
Stein (ABA Executive Director); John Sebert
(ABA Legal Education Consultant); Hon. Robert Childers
(ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs member); W. David
Harmon (Director, Counseling Center, St. John's
University); Robert Muldoon (Board of Bar Examiners,
Massachusetts); Michael Cohen (Director, Florida
Lawyer Assistance Program); Martha Treese (New
Jersey Character Committee); Hannah Arterian (Dean,
Syracuse Law School); Robert Davis (Adjunct Professor,
Widener Law School); Frank Shih (Assistant Dean
of Students, CUNY Law School); Aviva Orenstein
(Visiting Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School); Ken Rosenblum
(Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Touro Law Center); Mark Byers
(Director, Office of Student Life Counseling, Harvard Law School)
and Ray Lopez (NYS Bar Association Lawyer Assistance
Program Director).
Speakers' remarks may be found by clicking on tabs listed above.
As a followup to the conference, the Trust has been working on
various initiatives. • We have recommended that each
law school designate a "Student LAP" representative, to
be trained by the New York State Bar Association Lawyer Assistance
Program, to serve as a non-site contact point for law school students.
• We have retained Touro Law School Professor Marjorie Silver
to assemble materials to form a core curriculum, the so-called "Course
in a Box," to facilitate the presentation of relevant information
by law schools. • We have created a videotape of extracts
of remarks from our conference to serve as a starting point for
discussion. • We have organized an upstate meeting of law
school student services professionals to further promote the schools'
development of assistance and information concerning this issue.
For further information, please contact Barbara Smith at bfsmith@courts.state.ny.us.
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