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Monthly Luncheon - Duty to Be Well: Managing Occupational Risks and Prioritizing Well-Being to Thrive as Lawyers.

  • Thursday, November 21, 2024
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Norfolk Courtbouse Rotunda
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Registration

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November 21, 2024

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Free to NPBA members; $30 non-members

Registration includes boxed lunch and water.

Presenters: 

Barbara Mardigian, LPC


VJLAP Clinical Director

Barbra Mardigian is a Licensed Professional Counselor who joined Virginia Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program as the Deputy Clinical Director in 2019, and November 1, 2022, became the Clinical Director. Barbara has been licensed in the State of Virginia since 2004 and has worked in the field of addiction and mental health. She was formerly the Executive Director of an outpatient addiction treatment center in Richmond. She has worked in the field of addiction since 1997 as a clinical director, and clinician in a variety of levels of treatment, including outpatient, residential and acute psychiatric inpatient care. Barbara was a lead clinician at the Farley Center in their Professionals Program.


Barbara has been supervising individuals working towards their LPC and CSAC counselors in the state of Virginia since 2011.

Barbara is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University receiving her Master of Science, in Rehabilitation Counseling and undergraduate degree in Psychology from Ferrum College.


Charlene Reilly, MA, JD


VJLAP Education and Outreach Manager

Charlene Reilly joined Virginia Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program in 2023 as the Education and Outreach Manager. Prior to VJLAP, Charlene worked in-house as regulatory mortgage compliance counsel, focusing on consumer finance matters, for a national mortgage loan subservicer and a Virginia banking institution. Having practiced law, Charlene understands the pressures facing legal professionals and wants to help change the legal profession and be part of the solution to breaking the stigma and fear associated with addiction and mental illness in the legal profession.


Charlene is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia and Washington, DC. Charlene obtained a BA in psychology (1998) and a JD from The Catholic University Columbus School of Law (2003). Charlene also received an MA in psychology from Pepperdine University (1999).