This CLE explores how trauma, stress, and substance use affect legal professionals, covering prevalence, ethical risks, warning signs, and practical tools to manage stress.
The demands of legal practice can take a heavy toll, pushing many professionals to the brink as they navigate long hours, high-stakes decisions, and relentless pressure. These demands often create an environment where mental health challenges remain hidden and unhealthy coping mechanisms take root, such as using alcohol or substances to escape the trauma and stress that accompany the profession.
This CLE substance abuse webinar explores how trauma, chronic stress, and substance use disorders impact lawyers and legal professionals. Learn why the legal field carries higher risks, how trauma shapes behavior, and how unaddressed mental health challenges can lead to addiction.
Carolyn Reinach Wolf of Abrams Fensterman, LLP, will share practical tools for managing stress, building resilience, and fostering healthier, stigma-free workplaces, equipping attendees to support both their own well-being and that of their colleagues.
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Live and Recorded CLE & CPE Webcasts in the Legal, Tax, Finance, Risk, Compliance and Human Resources Industries
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Executive Partner at Abrams Fensterman LLP
Carolyn Reinach Wolf is an Executive Partner in the law firm of Abrams, Fensterman, LLP in Lake Success, New York and Director of the Firm’s Mental Health Law practice. She is the only attorney in the country with a family-focused practice dedicated to serving individuals and families struggling with serious mental illness and/or alcohol/drug addiction. Supported by a team of expert clinicians and her departmental attorneys, she specializes in guiding families through the complex landscape of legal issues that impact loved ones with serious mental illness and/or substance abuse issues. She also represents institutions, such as major hospital systems, mental health, healthcare and addiction professionals, and higher educational institutions. Ms. Wolf is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and was profiled by The New York Times in a 2013 story entitled, “A Guide in the Darkness,” which ran on the front page of the Sunday Edition Metro section.
