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GPSOLO Magazine- Bumps In The Road

GPSOLO magazine is the magazine that is published by the American Bar Association General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section.  The magazine is published eight times per year.  Four issues are dedicated to issues of critical importance to the sole practitioner.  Two issues cover technology for the sole practitioner and two issues offer articles published by other ABA groups.

The magazine offers advice on everything from how to set up a law office, to the benefits and burdens of a diversified practice.

Bumps In The Road

OBAP has acquired permission to reprint the articles from these special issues of GPSOLO Magazine.  Bumps in the Road a focuses on the many issues facing lawyers including addictions and mental illnesses, due the the overwhelming work load, not enough time or money or recognition, and other stressors lawyers face each day.  GPSOLO has compiled the best of it's Bumps in the Road articles into one issue, that is published once every three years.

GPSOLO Bumps in the Road Volume I includes the following articles:
-Integrating Treatment into the Justice System
-Bumps in the Road: Addiction
-Twenty Questions for Problem Drinkers
-Identifying Addiction
-Demystifying 12-Step Programs
-Depression
-Gambling
-Internet Addiction: Lawyers Getting Caught in the Net
-Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
-Getting on with it: Recovery Success Stories
-Managing an Impaired Lawyer's Practice and Files During Recovery
-The Dangerous Link Between Chronic Office Chaos, Stress, Depression
-Protecting Your Personal Relationships

GPSOLO Bumps in the Road Volume II includes the following articles:
- When Colleagues Need Help
- We're from the Bar, We're Here to Help You"
- Common Questions for LAPs
- What to Expect at Twelve-Step Meetings
- The Lawyer as Counselor: Representing the Impaired Client
- Growing Old is Not for the Fainthearted
- Eating Disorders
- Sexual Addictions
- Gambling
- Internet Addictions
- Grief
- Suicide
- Technostress
- Preventing Burnout: Live Well, Laugh Often
- So You're a Lawyer. Can You Be Happy?

GPSOLO Bumps in the Road Volume III includes the following articles:
- Why on Earth Would I call a LAP?
- Out of the Shadows: Women and Addiction
- What to Expect in Treatment
- Lawyers with ADHD
- Living with Mental Illness
- Returning Veterans
- Disciplinary Actions: When Bad Things Happen to Good Lawyers
- The Mindful Lawyer

Reprinted by permission of the American Bar Association.

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