Legal Referral Service presents: Making the Case for Promoting Wellness in the Legal Community.

**Lawyers assume incredible responsibilities to ensure the best outcome for
their clients. **
**These demands affect them, whether they recognize it or not.**

Join **Justice Megan K. Cavanagh and Molly Ranns,** Director of the Lawyers
and Judges Assistance Program, State Bar of Michigan, who will discuss the
work of the Well-Being in the Law Task Force, the importance of the wellness
movement in the legal profession, ways to effectively manage
lawyer-client relationships and practical tools to thrive personally and
professionally.

_Light refreshments will be served._

**Meet the presenters:**

**Justice Megan K. Cavanagh** is a life-long Michigander who grew up in East
Lansing and lives in metro Detroit. She is a graduate of the University of
Michigan College of Engineering and Wayne State University Law School. Before
joining the Michigan Supreme Court in January of 2019, she had over fifteen
years of experience as one of Michigan’s top appellate attorneys and was a
shareholder at Garan Lucow Miller P.C. in Detroit.

Justice Cavanagh is the Supreme Court Liaison to Tribal Courts, Child Welfare
Services, the Well-Being in the Law Task Force, the Attorney Grievance
Commission and the Judicial Tenure Commission. She also serves on the Attorney
General’s Elder Abuse Task Force.

Justice Cavanagh has served as Chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the
State Bar of Michigan, as a council person for the Negligence Section of the
State Bar of Michigan, as co-chair of the Michigan Bench Bar Appellate
Conference Foundation, and as a member of the Michigan Attorney Grievance
Commission.

Prior to her election to the Court, Justice Cavanagh was rated as one of
Michigan’s Super Lawyers. She was honored by Michigan Lawyer’s Weekly as
Lawyer of the Year in 2006 and a Woman in the Law in 2017. Justice Cavanagh
and her husband have four children.

**Molly Ranns, LPC** is the Director for the State Bar of Michigan’s Lawyers
and Judges Assistance Program where she has worked for the past 12 years. She
earned her Master of Arts in Counseling from Michigan State University where
she also earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology. Molly is a Licensed
Professional Counselor, a Nationally Board-Certified Counselor, and an
Internationally Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor. She is an
Advisory Committee member to the American Bar Association’s Commission on
Lawyer Assistance Programs and a member of the Federation of State Physician
Health Programs. Molly co-hosts a podcast produced by Legal Talk Network, SBM
On Balance, which explores the intersection between practice management and
lawyer well-being. She is a member of the Task Force on Well-Being in the Law,
a collaboration between the State Bar of Michigan and the Michigan Supreme
Court. She presents regularly on topics pertaining to law student and lawyer
well-being and has extensive experience working with impaired professionals,
substance use disorders, and mental health diagnoses.

Organized by: Jewish Family Service of Metro Detroit

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