Ill. S. Ct. R. 43

(a) Program Description. The Lawyers’ Assistance Program shall provide substance abuse

and mental health services for attorneys, judges, and law students that may include counseling, the

provision of information on addiction and mental health impairments, referrals to treatment

programs, peer assistance, education, interventions, relapse prevention, and monitoring of

compliance with treatment programs.

(b) Program Provider. The Lawyers’ Assistance Program shall be operated by a not-for-profit

corporation that is exempt from the payment of federal taxes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal

Revenue Code. Lawyers’ Assistance Program, Inc., shall be the designated Lawyers’ Assistance

Program provider for the State of Illinois.

(c) Program Fee. The Attorney Registration and Disci plinary Commission shall collect an

annual Lawyers’ Assistance Program fee as provided in Rule 756 from every attorney admitted to

practice law in this State paying full annual registration fees. The Attorney Registration and

Disciplinary Commission shall remit the program fee directly to the Supreme Court’s designated

Lawyers’ Assistance Program provider.

(d) Reporting. The designated Lawyers’ Assistance Program provider shall file annually with

the Supreme Court an accounting of the monies received and expended for its activities including

but not limited to a financial report by budget category of the previous year’s activities, a detailed

estimated budget for the next year’s activities, and an independent audit, which shall be paid for

by the program provider. The program provider shall also file annually with the Supreme Court a

report detailing the progress of the program, the operations and services provided, the number of

eligible recipients who received services, the effectiveness of its activities, and any significant

problem areas that developed and how they were resolved.