Attention - CLE Opportunity
What Lawyers Need to Know About Suicide During a Recession: Prevention, Identity and Law Firm Responsibility (teleconference, live audio webcast)

Wednesday May 6, 2009 - click here for additional information.

W. Donald (Don) Carroll Jr. LAP Director Western North Carolina District 907 Barra Row, Suite 205 Davidson, NC  28036 1-800-720-7257 1-704-892-5699 nclap@bellsouth.net Read Don's bio	Towanda C. Garner Piedmont LAP Coordinator Piedmont North Carolina District 208 Fayetteville Street Raleigh, NC  27601 1-877-570-0991 1-919-828-4620 ext. 290 tgarner@ncbar.com Read Towanda's bio	Edmund (Ed) F. Ward III LAP Asst. Director Eastern North Carolina District 208 Fayetteville Street Raleigh, NC  27601 1-877-627-3743 1-919-828-6425 eward@ncbar.com Read Ed's bio

Call the staff member responsible for your county, any LAP staff member,
or any peer counselor volunteer if you need assistance.

Confidentiality

The LAP is entirely separate from the Disciplinary Department of the State Bar.  Information received by the LAP concerning any lawyer seeking help or to whom assistance is offered is confidential. The confidentiality provided is that of the attorney-client privilege. See 27 NCAC 1D, Rule .0652 and Rule 1.6 of the Revised Rules of Professional Conduct. If you call as the spouse, child, or friend of the lawyer you suspect may have a chemical dependency and/or mental health problem, your communication is also treated as confidential.

In order to assure this high degree of trust and confidence, the Lawyer Assistance Program is, by rule of the State Bar, which has been approved by order of the North Carolina Supreme Court, entirely separate from any ethics or disciplinary committee of the State Bar.