The pace of calls to the State Bar of Georgia’s free, confidential lawyer assistance hotline during the first six months of 2020 matched those of the previous year, despite a pandemic that has shut down courthouses and schools, led to salary cuts, forced lawyers to work from home and upended countless other aspects of life.

Through July 23, according to the bar’s Lawyer Assistance Committee, 219 bar members called the hotline, where they can speak with a counselor. That figure lines up with last year, when 205 lawyers called between January and June, and 204 called between July and December.