I'm
the Executive Director of Florida Lawyers Assistance, the program created by the
Florida Supreme Court to help attorneys impaired because of drugs, alcohol, or
psychological conditions. The job is full time, which means I actually get paid to help other
lawyers......there are times I think there's been a mistake - I should be
paying someone to enjoy working this much! To find out more about FLA,
follow the link below to our home page. You can e-mail me at: michael@fla-lap.org
I served on the American Bar Association's Commission on Lawyer Assistance
Programs (CoLAP), the national "clearinghouse" for lawyer assistance
programs around the U.S., Canada, and other countries, from 1997 - 2001, as well
as on the CoLAP Advisory
Committee and the Commission's Conference
Planning Committee, which is finalizing plans for the Commission's annual week long
workshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia in October 2007 and Little Rock, Arkansas in
September 2009.. I also served as Chair of The Florida Bar's Quality of Life & Career
Committee until 2004, and currently am a member of the Bar's Standing Committee
on Professionalism and the LOMAS Advisory Board.
Living in South Florida, I love scuba diving and golf (well, "love"
may be too strong a term for the latter). I get my aerobics quotient from
bicycling around
Surfside and Miami Beach and trying to keep up with my wife, Dawn, my 16 year old son, Travis,
and my nephews, Danny, Nash, and Robbie. I also ride a 100th Anniversary
Harley-Davidson Night Train every chance I get, which is a whole lot more than I could
do in Massachusetts!
Florida
Lawyers Assistance
The Florida Bar
