Is your “Career Compass” headed north in 2018?
Many lawyers have benefited from Florida Lawyer Assistance, Inc. sponsoring career counseling programs each month since its inception in 2013, under the direction of the late Michael Cohen and David Behrend, Director of Career Planning Services for Lawyers in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
The free career counseling program comes to lawyers via computer, mobile device or telephone from the privacy of their home or office. Molly Paris is the new organizer of the webinar, under Florida Lawyer Assistance’s new Executive Director, Judy Rushlow.
I am reminded of reading a recent obituary in the New York Times about Brooks Thomas, a former CEO of Harper & Row, the distinguished national publishing house. Thomas, a Pennsylvania native, had been with an elite New York City Law Firm. He left to become general counsel and then CEO of the company. “I felt if I stayed in a law firm I’d spend my whole life knowing more and more about less and less,” he was quoted saying. 
Lawyer Assistance Program professionals understand that life’s circumstances can cause emotional stress, depression, loss of self-esteem and a feeling of being out of control. Whether related to employment, family or other personal problems, substance abuse or other health problems, help is only a phone call away. Confidential professional and peer assistance is available. All that is required to begin the assistance process is a confidential, no-obligation, toll-free telephone call to a qualified care professional at the Lawyers’ Confidential Helpline. This service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and holidays. 