2010 AWARDS

Amount

Recipient/Purpose

$15,000.00

Bar Assoc of Erie County
Continue Outreach/Lawyer services in the 8th District

$10,000.00

Erie County Bar Foundation
Treatment Related Expenses

$2,512.20

Tompkins County Bar Association
Sponsor CLE “Lawyers Helping Lawyers:  In Good Times and Bad”

$635.43

Dutchess County Bar Association
Sponsor CLE “Doing Nothing Is Not An Option”

$368.85

PACE University
Sponsor Student Services Deans Meeting 2010

$67,328.00

New York State Bar Association
Continue LAP Expansion program

$80,000.00
$1,670.00

New York City Bar Association
To support Clinical Director and part-time associate
Sponsor LAP Brochure - printing

$53,495.00

Nassau County Bar Association
Continue LAP Director salary, advertising & outreach

$1,285.24

Oneida County Bar Association
Sponsor CLE “Professional and Optimism - A Perfect Partnership

2009 AWARDS

Amount

Recipient/Purpose

$823.49

$645.87
$1,395.75

Oneida County Bar Association
Sponsor CLE “Doing Nothing is not an Option: Attorneys are Vulnerable to Mental Health Impairment”
Sponsor CLE “The Economy: What Not To Do”
Sponsor CLE “The Lawyer is the Problem”

$15,000.00
$2,500.00

Bar Assoc of Erie County
Continue Outreach/Lawyer services in the 8th District
Sponsor Lawyers With Depression Website [Lukasik]

$2,100.00
$10,000.00

Erie County Bar Foundation
Sponsor CLE Balancing Life & Law: Strategies for Managing Stress
Treatment Related Expenses

$10,000.00

Erie Institute of Law
Sponsor Film Documentary “Depression in the Legal Profession”

$1,078.65
$1,680.00
$5,000.00
$69,108.00

New York State Bar Association
Sponsor Spring Retreat/Nancy Stek
Sponsor Spring Retreat/Sponsorship
Treatment Related Expenses
Continue LAP Expansion program

$80,000.00
$803.00

$157.75

New York City Bar
To support Clinical Director and part-time associate
To sponsor workshop “Letting It All Hang Out:  Better Lawyering Through Awareness of Self & Client”
Sponsor Travel Reimbursement for Dr. Sternlieb on Oct 6, 2009 at CLE “Letting It All Hang Out:  Better Lawyering Through Awareness & Self

$53,495.00

Nassau County Bar Association
Continue LAP Director salary, advertising & outreach

$2,429.60

Onondaga County Bar Association
Sponsor CLE “Balancing Life and Law:  Strategies for Managing Stress”

$256.75

LeGaL Association
Sponsor conference “From Stonewall to Stonewalled?”

$265.50

PACE University
Sponsor Student Services Deans Meeting 2009

2008 AWARDS

Amount

Recipient/Purpose

$117,272

New York State Bar Association

to continue funding support for the expanded Lawyer Assistance Program, including $2,390 to defray LAP-related treatment expenses for needy attorneys

$97,949

New York City Bar Association

to fund a par-time Clinical Staff member and administrative Assistant for the LAP; to defray treatment-related expenses for needy attorneys; to develop anew LAP brochure

$54,198

Nassau County Bar Fund

to fund the Nassau Bar’s Lawyer Assistance Program, including part-time staff and related outreach/CLE programs; to support the Nassau Bar LAP Retreat

$48,600

Bar Association of Erie County

to continue financial support for outreach and lawyer assistance services in the eighth judicial district, to defray LAP- related treatment expenses for needy attorneys, to defray expenses for “lawyers with depression” website, to support a LAP-related CLE program

$5,681

Queens County Bar Association

to support production of outreach materials; to provide LAP-related educational programs, defray some treatment expenses

$3,317

Monroe County Bar Center For Education – to support two LAP-related CLE programs

$2,534

Onondaga County Bar Association –to support a LAP-related CLE program

$2,000

Tompkins County Bar Association – to support a LAP-related CLE program

$1,309

Oneida County Bar Association – to support a LAP-related CLE program

2007 AWARDS

Amount

Recipient/Purpose

$47,375

Nassau County Bar Association

to fund a part-time clinical staff person to serve Suffolk County, continue funding a part-time LAP Director to serve Nassau County; to support a monitor training session

$40,000

Bar Association of Erie County

To continue a LAP- related pilot project and to defray LAP- related treatment expenses for needy attorneys

$5,000

New York State Bar Association

to defray LAP related treatment expenses for needy attorneys

$1,348

Oneida County Bar Association – to support a LAP related CLE program

$1,000

Touro Law Center – $1,000 to support a conference

2006 AWARDS

Amount

Recipient/Purpose

$108,020

New York State Bar Association

to expand the lawyer assistance program by funding the retaining of two part time clinical professionals to render LAP services in the Second and the Fourth Departments

$32,364

New York City Bar Association

to expand the lawyer assistance program by funding the retaining of a part-time associate to render LAP services in the NYC-metro area and to continue support for the part-time administrative assistant for the LAP

$6,500

Bar Association of Erie County

to continue funding a pilot project in the Eighth Judicial District to provide outreach related to lawyer assistance services

$738

Dutchess County Bar Association – to support a LAP-related CLE program

2005 AWARDS

Amount

Recipient/Purpose

$66,500

New York City Bar Association

to support the hiring of an administrative assistant for the Lawyer Assistance Program Director and to retain a clinical consultant to establish and facilitate short-term therapy groups for lawyers

$29,500

Bar Association of Erie County

to fund the second year of a pilot project to retain chemical dependency specialists to provide professional services in the Eighth Judicial District for cases involving lawyer addiction, aftercare and recovery; to underwrite scholarships for needy attorneys to attend the annual 12-Step weekend sponsored by the Lawyer Assistance Committee in Buffalo

$7,500

New York State Bar Association

to promote the Spring Retreat weekend sponsored by the Committee on Lawyer Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and to offer scholarships to needy attorneys and law students to attend

2004 AWARDS

Amount

Recipient/Purpose

$45,000

Bar Association of Erie County

to provide lawyer assistance services in the eight county region of the Eighth Judicial District; to defray the expenses of inpatient treatment of two needy attorneys

$2,275

Onondaga County Bar Association – to provide lawyer assistance services & outreach

$2,500

New York State Bar Association – to support its Annual Spring LAP Retreat

$1,355

Nassau County Bar Association – to provide monitor training

2003 AWARDS

Amount

Recipient/Purpose

$35,000

Bar Association of Erie County

to fund a pilot project to retain trained chemical dependency specialists to provide professional services in the eight counties of the Eighth Judicial District for cases involving lawyer addiction, aftercare and recovery, as well as to provide education for the bench and bar about addiction and recovery.

$24,000

Nassau County Bar Association

to support the LAP, including preparing printing and mailing an educational brochure to attorneys in Nassau County; to sponsor four LAP-related continuing legal education events; and to expand the scope of work of the part-time NCBA staff LAP director.

$10,460

Association of the Bar of the City of New York

to support the lawyer assistance program; print a new informational brochure, host a Spring forum and permit the director to travel to work related conferences and training events.

$5,450

New York State Bar Association

to support the Monitor Training Event and outreach/poster project

$1,500

Nassau County Bar Association

to defray expenditures connected with a Monitor Training Continuing Legal Education

2002 AWARDS

Amount

Recipient/Purpose

$14,381

Monroe County Bar Foundation

to develop an informative print campaign describing the problem of alcohol and drug abuse in the profession, the local response, new website content and advertisements for local use

$11,000

Erie County Bar Foundation – for treatment related expenses and to support their summer 12-step retreat weekend