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Overcoming Barriers in the Profession Series: Panel 3: Internationally Trained Lawyers
This session offers a discussion on internationally trained lawyers and the barriers they face, their lived experiences, the gaps faced due to the structure of the legal recruitment system, supports and solutions needed.
This panel will cover racial barriers, intersectional barriers, and barriers in the National Committee on Accreditation process/articling system faced by internationally trained lawyers.
Duration: 90 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $55 + tax -
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Achieving Pay Equity in the Legal Profession & Beyond: Practical Steps Forward
This webinar will offer an in-depth discussion of the findings of the WLF's most recent pay equity report titled, "Pay Equity in the Legal Profession: Report Launch & Next Steps."
Duration: 90 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $55 + tax -
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Achieving Racial Justice
Learn about the barriers that racial minorities in the legal profession face and how to dismantle them.
Duration: 120 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $55 + tax -
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LGBTQ2SI Community and Access to Justice
Join an expert panel of lawyers from the CBA SOGIC Section to explore what we can do as lawyers to make the Canadian legal system a more welcoming place for people from the LGBTQ2SI community.
Duration: 90 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $30 + tax -
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Parenting and Practicing
This webinar examines the barriers and biases that parents in the legal profession face.
The speakers will offer practical advice for individuals and organizations for how legal workplaces can better accommodate parents.
Duration: 90 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $30 + tax -
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Unconscious Bias: Stories from Real Life & Practical Tips to Move Forward
A panel of women lawyers representing diversity in the profession will speak about their lived experiences of working in a predominantly white legal profession.
Duration: 90 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $30 + tax -
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Pay Equity in the Legal Profession
The Roundtable is a national research initiative of the WLF designed to gather data about Canadian lawyers’ experiences, perceptions, and potential solutions to the gender wage gap in legal workplaces.
Duration: 75 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: N/A -
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Racial Justice in Canada: Anti-Black Racism and the Legal Profession
Drawing on their personal experiences and expertise, panelists will speak about the challenges that the Canadian legal profession needs to confront, and the role of lawyers and legal organizations in combatting systemic anti-Black racism in Canada.
Duration: 60 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $25 + tax -
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Real-World Strategies for Integrating Diversity and Inclusion in Your Firm or Legal Deparment
Gain real-world insight into how organizations and firms across North America are building more diverse and inclusive legal workplace cultures by conducting internal inclusion audits, providing diversity and inclusion training, and hiring and retaining diverse talent.
Learn hands-on tactics and expert strategies to ensure that your workplace is at the forefront of diversity and inclusion in the Canadian legal profession.
Duration: 60 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $50 + tax -
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Uploading Diversity and Inclusion Responsibilities to Your Management Team
You are a champion of diversity and you are doing your best to shift the mindset of colleagues in your workplace.
How can you upload these responsibilities to your management team to implement changes top-down? Hear helpful advice on how to effectively share your ownership with the management team to improve staffing, mentorship, and development opportunities.
Duration: 60 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $50 + tax -
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Diversity for Solo, Small and Mid Sized Firms
Diversity and inclusion training can help lawyers provide better legal services to diverse communities and enhance their own brand in a competitive legal landscape.
Discover simple and cost effective options for advancing diversity and inclusion including targeted training, updating hiring processes, cultivating mentorship opportunities, and building a network of diverse lawyers for client referrals.
Duration: 60 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $50 + tax -
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Shifting the Cultural Mindset at Your Firm or Organization
Explore common obstacles of promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Walk away with strategies for training your staff to advance diversity and inclusion both within your firm and in your firm’s external outreach efforts. Learn how you can be an effective leader or champion of diversity and inclusion to raise awareness of unconscious biases, improve recruiting processes, and to change the way work is assigned at your firm or organization.
Duration: 60 minutes
Member cost: Complimentary
Non-member cost: $50 + tax
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