How Can You Help the 澳博app援助计划
We are always seeking new volunteers with varied backgrounds and experiences. Below are the two primary ways volunteers can support our program. We hope you will join us in sharing your knowledge and experience to help those currently struggling in the legal profession. if you are ready to sign-up today, please download the 义工资料表 并将填妥的表格电邮至 (电子邮件保护). If you are interested but want more information, please complete this form and a LAP counselor will reach out to you.
志愿者-导师
D.C. 酒吧 澳博app援助计划 (LAP) has a strong volunteer component which allows lawyers who have faced similar well-being, 心理健康, or substance use problems and have overcome them to offer their guidance and assistance to LAP clients in a confidential, 指导的关系. Volunteering with the LAP is confidential and is covered under 规则1.D .第6 (i)条.C. 职业行为准则.
志愿者-演讲者
LAP volunteers frequently assist with outreach by speaking about their experience at LAP educational presentations. These presentations are conducted at legal organizations, 法律的雇主, and law schools throughout the year. They are an opportunity to normalize the struggle by sharing how you have navigated personal and/or professional challenges while practicing law.
Lawyer Assistance Committee (LAC)
每年秋天，D.C. 酒吧 董事会 of Governors seeks candidates for appointments to the Lawyer Assistance Committee (LAC). All candidates must be members of the D.C. 酒吧, except positions designated for nonlawyer members. LAC members are appointed to serve a two–year term, 可以更新, and can only serve three consecutive two–year terms.
If you would like to apply for a LAC vacancy, please submit a résumé and a cover letter describing your interest, 还有工作描述, volunteer or personal relevant qualifications and email to (电子邮件保护). Applications that do not include the requisite cover letter with a description of relevant experience will not be considered. 领导 experience with other D.C. 酒吧 committees, voluntary bar associations, or the 酒吧’s sections is highly desirable.
查尔斯·L. 雷舍尔纪念基金
The LAP manages a fund which gives no-interest loans for necessary treatment for LAP clients who have no other sources of funding. The loan fund is named after 查尔斯·L. Reischel是D.C. 酒吧 Lawyer Assistance Committee (LAC) and a strong advocate of funding treatment for substance use and 心理健康 disorders. 查尔斯L号. Reischel Memorial Revolving Fund, named posthumously in Mr. Reischel’s honor in July of 2004, is a fund supported entirely through voluntary contributions. If you would like to learn more about supporting the 查尔斯·L. 请给我瑞舍尔基金 联系LAP.
If you would like to know more about LAP volunteer opportunities or you have questions, please contact the 澳博app援助计划 staff, 电话:202-347-3131或电子邮件 (电子邮件保护).
