Lawyer Assistance Program Committee

The Lawyer Assistance Program Committee of the Senior Lawyers Division helps provide assistance to lawyers who are suffering from cognitive impairments.

See below for resources and upcoming program opportunities. For more information or to get involved, please contact one of the committee members at bottom left.

Upcoming Event:

Lunch and Learn: Intervention to Protect Clients

The Division is poised to assist in the implementation of Rule 428, Intervention to Protect Clients, SCACR. The rule provides a procedure through which volunteer Bar members visit a Bar member who, to others, is showing signs of difficulty in practicing law. The theory is that a person’s career should not end badly if temporary or increasing problems - perhaps caused by diminishing capacities - can be identified and a person’s practice be wound down or perhaps assisted in some manner.
 
The Bar will host several free lunch and learn sessions to educate Division members on how to identify the signs and causes of diminished mental capacity and how to properly address these issues. These sessions will prepare teams of volunteers to visit Bar members, where warranted, and address concerns and assess whether additional assistance is needed.

Information about additional training sessions will be posted as they are scheduled.

Training sessions

Dr. Macie P. Smith facilitates the training session for the South Carolina Bar. If you would like to have a training session, please use her contact information below.

Macie P. Smith
Diversified Training Consultants Group
1821 Pickens St.
Columbia, SC 29201
(803) 814-6721
info@dtconsultant.org

You can watch her Dementia Speaks video here and ask about booking inquiries here.

Resources:

Revised Rule 428, SCACR, Intervention to Protect Clients

Rule 428, SCACR, Intervention to Protect Clients

Succession Planning

ABA Resources for Lawyers in Transition

South Carolina Doctors

South Carolina Hospitals

South Carolina Nursing Homes