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Washington Lawyers Assisting Lawyers

  • Washington Lawyers Assisting Lawyers (WALAL) is avaliable for free, confidential lawyer-to-lawyer peer support for lawyers, judges, and law students

 

 

  • What is WALAL? It is a new, free, and confidential nonprofit assistance program with an all-volunteer/all-lawyer board and a trained state-wide peer counseling Corps with lived experience or interest in the array of substance use and mental and physical health challenges faced by those in the legal profession, from law school, to practice, and in retirement. That’s the good news. The bad news is how prevalent these challenges are in the legal profession. As WALAL Founder and President Leslie Hagin of Seattle explains: “We are here to directly serve, on a lawyer-to-lawyer, peer support basis, the more than 1/3 of the legal profession struggling with substance use or other mental health challenges. These issues within the legal profession have been documented for decades and are well-known to be acute. Their prevalence far surpasses the general U.S. population as well as any other profession. Unfortunately, the needs for peer support, outreach, and destigmatization of these challenges within our legal community have remained unmet. WALAL promotes wellness in the legal profession by proactively stepping into the breach to fill this void.”

    Lawyers and judges of a certain age will remember Andy Benjamin as the developer and director of the WSBA Lawyers Assistance Program from its inception in the mid-80’s until the 90’s. WALAL is delighted that Andy (more formally G. Andrew H. Benjamin, JD, PhD, ABPP UW Clinical Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Law) will continue to serve the legal profession as WALAL’s Director of Peer Counselor Training and Consultation, and also its Peer Intake Coordinator. Questions? Concerns? Interested? You can contact WALAL at the information listed above.