The holiday season often brings unique pressures for lawyers - balancing demanding caseloads with family expectations, financial strain, and the challenges of maintaining emotional well-being. These stressors can affect not only a lawyer's personal health but also their mental health, which could impact their ethical obligations to clients, colleagues, and the profession. In this one-hour CLE program, Yvette Hourigan, Chair of the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs and Executive Director of the Kentucky Lawyer Assistance Program discusses the intersecting issues of mental health, holiday stress, and professional responsibility.

1.0 Ethics credit - Self Study

ISB Course #26-0253