Products tagged with 'diversity'

Looking for a program that meets your ENTIRE professional responsibility requirement? Look no further! This unique program features panels of legal ethics consultants, top lawyers and Illinois ARDC officials on six timely and practical topics relevant to your modern law practice. Complete this course and rest easy knowing you are DONE with your professional responsibility credit requirements, including mental health/substance abuse and diversity/inclusion.

This program completes your ENTIRE 6-hour professional responsibility CLE requirement, including new credit requirements for diversity/inclusion and mental health/substance abuse.

This popular annual program for Illinois estate planners offers more than 15 hours of advanced estate and trust planning education.

With topics carefully crafted and taught by a committee of knowledgeable, experienced attorneys, the IICLE® 6th Annual Local Government Law Institute continues to be your resource for hands-on, practical help with local government law issues.

The modern lawyer must use communication skills in many diverse circumstances. This session focuses on ways that we miscommunicate and how to avoid common areas of miscommunication, promoting diversity and inclusion within the profession by helping attorneys communicate more effectively in diverse environments.

What is cultural sensitivity? Why is it important? Whose responsibility is it to ensure a culturally sensitive workplace? Learn to become culturally sensitive and build an understanding or awareness as to how our actions impact others in this highly interactive course.

This session aims to increase knowledge of the importance of cultural competence in the lawyer/client relationship and understanding of how cultural differences between lawyer and others in the legal system might impact representation of a client. Attendees also learn five habits for increasing cultural competence.

Organizations promoting diversity and inclusion need support if they are going to make progress. Such support includes critically examining 21st century diversity practices that end up perpetuating unfairness and maintaining the status quo—even when intended to do just the opposite. What are those actions and practices? How is it possible that, for instance, a woman or a person of color can be hurt by a company when a manager assigns them to a diversity committee? Learn about such unsuccessful practices, as well as how firms can rectify these practices in the name of fairness and social justice.