Government
Jan. 1, 2013
Growning number of prospective lawyers referred to addiction program
The State Bar Lawyer Assistance Program, which helps lawyers with substance-abuse or mental-health problems, is accepting an increasing number of people hoping to be admitted to practice.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
State Bar officials regularly meet with groups of law students to explain the bar exam and the process of being admitted as a lawyer. After those presentations, Robert A. Hawley often sits down with individual students who are worried about making it through the "moral character and fitness" stage of the process.
The most common issue for those concerned students is alcohol, he said, ...
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