The goal of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s inaugural Lawyer Well-Being Summit was simple: to reduce some of the stigma surrounding issues of mental health and substance abuse in the profession. The Oct. 10 event was organized by KCMBA’s ...

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Alcohol abuse. Overeating. Depression, anxiety and isolation. Missouri attorneys took the lead in sharing issues with which they have struggled during a frank conversation about well-being in the legal profession at The Missouri Bar Annual Meeting in Branson. At a ...

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Where a defendant challenged the denial of his motion to modify special conditions of supervised release that required him to submit to periodic drug testing, to participate in substance-abuse treatment and to not associate with gangs, the district court was ...

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Where a defendant challenged his sentence in a felon-in-possession case, the district court did not abuse its discretion in considering the defendant’s age and history of assaulting police officers as aggravating factors and the court was under no obligation to ...

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