Stacey A. L. Best, Esq. (she/hers) Executive Director Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers Massachusetts
Stacey is the Executive Director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers Massachusetts, the
lawyer assistance program in Massachusetts. LCLMA provides direct services to
members of the legal community, their families, and law students through addiction
recovery services, evaluations and referral to mental health services, well-being
programming and practice support. LCLMA also provides education through
partnerships with legal employers, bar associations, non-profit agencies, and CLE
providers. LCLMA also provides substance use monitoring required by employers or
orders issued to lawyers by tribunals of competent jurisdiction, and evaluations of
practice management.
As the executive director of LCLMA, Stacey represents the interest of LCLMA and
participates with key stakeholders at various bar associations, and the Committees of
the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), including the SJC Standing Committee on Lawyer
Well-Being, and the Standing Advisory Committee on Professionalism to improve the
quality of the legal profession. In 2025, the SJC appointed Stacey to a 3-year term on its
Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct.
Stacey joined LCL after spending 18 years with the Board of Bar Overseers (BBO) and
the Office of Bar Counsel (OBC) as an assistant bar counsel. Before leaving the BBO to
join LCL, with her deep knowledge and strategic approach to attorney discipline, Stacey
became the Inaugural Director of Diversity Equity and Inclusion(interim) at the BBO.
Stacey is interested in, presents, teaches, and coaches on the topics of ethics, lawyer
wellbeing, DEI, and leadership.
Tracey Meyers, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, HSP
Dr. Tracey Meyers is a licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts, Connecticut,
and New York. She is currently employed at Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL)
in Massachusetts, a lawyer assistance program where she focuses on lawyer wellbeing
and mental health. Tracey runs groups Weekly Yoga for Busy Legal
Professionals and Weekly Mindfulness for Busy Legal Professionals, as well as office
hours and groups at Massachusetts law schools. She is on the board of Mindfulness
and the Law Society (MILS) and regularly leads mindfulness practices for their
national organization. Tracey is committed to reducing stigma around mental health in
the law and co-facilitates Mental Health First Aid certification trainings for legal
professionals.
In addition, she is an advanced yoga teacher, certified yoga therapist, and MBSR and
mindfulness teacher. Prior to LCL, Dr. Meyers worked for the State of Connecticut
Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services where she spent 17 years
working as a clinical neuropsychologist working with clients with learning
disabilities, attention-deficit disorder, traumatic brain injury, and developmental and
brain-based disorders. Dr. Meyers graduated from Skidmore College in 1992 and
completed her doctorate in clinical psychology from Florida Tech in 1997. She
completed her internship and post-doctoral training in neuropsychology at the Miami
VA and University of Miami. Dr. Meyers has authored several publications and book
chapters around neuropsychological assessment, autism spectrum disorders,
behavioral treatment for different mental health conditions, yoga for addiction, and
has written a book on yoga and mental health, Yin Yoga Therapy and Mental Health
that was published in June of 2022 (Singing Dragon, 2022).
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