Bench & Bar September/October 2025

KENTUCKY LAWYER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

The Kentucky Lawyer Assistance Program (KYLAP) in partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is pleased to introduce the nation’s first anonymous online interactive screening program for suicide prevention designed exclusively for Kentucky Lawyers. KYLAP wishes to thank the Kentucky Bar Association (KBA) and the KBA Board of Governors for their support in implementing this program designed to help reduce lawyer deaths by suicide. Additional information can be found at www.kylap.org.

kylap announces NATION’S FIRST ANONYMOUS ONLINE INTERACTIVE SCREENING PROGRAM FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION LAWYERS IN RECOVERY MEETINGS The meetings are open to all recoveries and follows a standard mutual-aid recovery meeting format. These meetings are a safe place to share your experience, strength,and hope with others and gain peer support from other lawyers, law students, and judges in recovery. The meetings are confidential, and you must have a personal invitation to attend. The link and password are changed weekly for privacy and meetings are not recorded.

MONDAYS AT 5PM, ET WEDNESDAYS AT 7:30AM, ET THURSDAYS AT 5PM, ET LAWYERS IN RECOVERY MEETING ZOOM TIMES

If you would like an invitation to attend any of the Lawyers In Recovery meetings, please contact Ashley Cooper at 502-226-9373, or abeitz@kylap.org.

Call anytime. (502) 226-9373

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