Lawyer Mental Health: The Numbers, the People, the Support Systems

Ghunise Coaxum is a Bar Counsel at the Florida Bar.

Ms. Davis is the Director of The Risk Management and Lawyer Mentoring Program at the South Carolina Bar. She serves South Carolina Bar members on professional responsibility issues through entities and individual contacts; manage the South Carolina Supreme Court’s Lawyer Mentoring Program; provide primary support for Ethics Hotline; draft lawyer discipline, reinstatement, and court summaries; provide substantive and administrative support to the Professional Responsibility Committee, Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee, and Professional Liability Committee; supervise support staff; draft and oversee budgets for Risk Management Division and the Lawyer Mentoring Program.

Rebecca J. Bandy serves as director of The Florida Bar’s Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism. She joined the center as assistant director in March 2017. Prior to joining The Florida Bar, she was an associate attorney at the Law Offices of Thomas L. Powell, P.A., in Tallahassee, where she litigated in the areas of family and criminal law. She earned her J.D. from the Florida State University College of Law.