The debate over how much bar applicants should be required to reveal about their mental health will take center stage next week, when the American Bar Association's House of Delegates weighs a resolution urging attorney licensing bodies to eliminate questions about a candidate's mental health history during the character-and-fitness review process.
July 30, 2015 at 03:25 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Ever since Lisa McElroy went public about her struggles with severe anxiety in a 2013 article in Slate, she’s been a sounding board for other lawyers and law students with mental illness.
McElroy, a tenured professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, gets emails and calls from people seeking advice or venting frustrations with the stigma mental illness carries in the legal profession.
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