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Dear Editor:
Your most recent edition of the Utah Bar Journal was excellent! Hopefully, practicing attorneys will learn to switch bad moods to good, to recognize and reduce stress and will be willing to help other attorneys in trouble.
I resigned from the Utah Bar three years past with discipline pending due to my inability to handle the demands of my varied practice. Fortunately, I was not afflicted with a drug
problem (as was the author of one of your articles), but it would have been good if I had an understanding fellow attorney willing to talk with me when I was confronted with a missed
deadline or other stress inducing event.
I am now on the hopeful road to regaining my bar license, starting with devouring the Bar Journal and other ethics articles and books. I
truly appreciate the value of that bar license, and I thank you for helping current attorneys in retaining that sometimes unappreciated asset.
If there is any position which I
could fill as a current non-lawyer willing to help lawyers, and given my 21 years of experience, I would greatly love to contribute.
Thank you,
Dean Becker
Dear Editor:
Today I received the August/September issue of the Utah Bar Journal from Richard Uday, the new Director of the Utah Lawyers Helping Lawyers Program. I wanted to immediately thank you for publishing this particular issue and bringing attention to the activities of Richard Uday and the Utah State Bar.
Through the efforts of Richard and people like Richard all across this country, judges, attorneys, and their family members are becoming better informed about mental health and
addiction issues that effect their daily lives. It was not so long ago that the admission of a problem with addiction brought great embarrassment and shame to the addict and his or her
entire family. Educational efforts spearheaded by the state bar associations have done a great deal to raise the level of understanding about these issues as well as the heightened
chances of recovery.
The Utah Bar Journal is to be congratulated for publication of this issue and the Utah State Bar is to be congratulated for its willingness to step up to the
plate and squarely address these serious issues.
Sincerely,
John W. Clark, Jr.
Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs,
American Bar Association
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