Cullman attorney Champ Crocker has been appointed to serve on the Alabama State Bar’s Quality of Life, Health & Wellness Task Force for the 2019-2020 year.

The task force is charged with formulating an action plan to implement the recommendations of a recent national study on lawyer well-being including:

• Identifying stakeholders and the role they can place in reducing toxicity in the legal profession;
• Ending the stigma surrounding help-seeking behaviors;
• Emphasizing that well-being is an indispensable part of a lawyer’s duty of competence;
• Expanding educational outreach and programming on well-being issues;
• Evaluate changing the tone of the legal profession as it relates to well-being.

The task force will explore programs, accumulate information and educate members about wellness issues and resources and develop educational programs for lawyers throughout the state. The task force will also formulate a plan to celebrate May as Mental Health Awareness Month and provide content for the Communications Department of the Alabama State Bar to raise awareness through a “Wellness Wednesday” social media campaign.

Crocker, currently training for his eighth half-marathon, said, “Lawyers owe it to themselves, their families and their clients to be well.”