James J. Faught, associate dean of the Loyola University School of Law, will be installed as president of the Lawyers’ Assistance Program when it holds its 28th anniversary dinner in the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago.

Other incoming officers are 22nd Circuit Judge Michael T. Caldwell of Woodstock, vice president; Sheila M. Murphy of Chicago, treasurer, and Appellate Justice James M. Wexstten of Mt. Vernon, secretary.

LAP will present its Carl H. Rolewick Award to Chicago attorney Matthew J. Iverson, who was president of the organization in 1992-93.

Appellate Justice Ann B. Jorgensen of Wheaton, former chief judge of the 18th Circuit, will receive the John Powers Crowley Award.

Former Michigan attorney Michael J. Burke, author of the American Bar Association book, “Never Enough: One Lawyer’s True Story of How He Gambled His Career Away,” will be keynote speaker.

Sales of the book help Burke repay clients whose trust accounts totaling $1.6 million he misappropriated to support his drinking and gambling dependencies.

James Faught, a 1976 graduate of Loyola’s law school, practiced for three years in Chicago before joining the faculty. He is associatie dean for administration, director of the externship program and founding director of the London Comparative Advocacy Program.

He has chaired the ISBA Committee on Legal Education, Admission and Competence and served on the Committee on the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. He is secretary of the Illinois Executive Ethics Program.

Faught had served for several years on the LAP board that preceded its 2002 conversion to a court-administered institution. He was appointed to the new governing board that year by the Illinois Supreme Court.

Established in 1980 by the Illinois State Bar Association and Chicago Bar Association, the Lawyers’ Assistance Program has a three-fold mission:

To protect clients from impaired lawyers and judges; to help lawyers, judges and law students with alcohol, drug or mental health problems, and to educate the legal community about related issues.

New areas of service in mental health problems and compulsive disorders such as gambling resulted in a 22 percent increase in the number of clients served during the 2007-08 year.

Last year, 272 new cases were opened, up from 222 in 2006-07 and 190 in 2005-06. Two full-time and two part-time staff members try to meet an unexpected demand for individual assistance, and free training and education programs.

Call (312) 726-6607 for reservations or information about LAP services.