Diversity & Inclusion

The inclusive language principles explored here can be enacted immediately to overcome communication barriers, enhance clarity, and demonstrate respect for clients and colleagues.

This course focuses on helping attorneys better understand the impact their clients', and their own, religious beliefs can have as they work through the estate planning process.

This course introduces the issues, activities, and tools required to move towards inclusive, equitable, and anti-racist legal advising, counseling, advocacy, and practice.

Understanding what neurodiversity means for individuals, their colleagues, and working environments assists when developing recruitment, retention, and intake policies that welcome all clients and ensure attorneys and support staff contribute to the firm’s success.

In this presentation based on his award-winning book, Before Bostock: The Accidental LGBTQ Precedent of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, Dr. Jason Pierceson, University of Illinois Springfield, examines the history of the inclusion of "sex" in Title VII and how that set the foundation for cases being brought on behalf of trans and queer individuals under Title IX.

Learn about risk factors for elder abuse of older African-American adults, including resources for legal professionals interested in learning more about culturally appropriate approaches to justice for this community.

Unpack age bias in the legal field — what it is, why it matters, and ways to enhance collaboration across all age levels.

While well represented in the legal community, American Jews still may face antisemitic bias and misunderstandings of their diverse identities. Dr. Laura Shaw Frank utilizes her background as both a scholar of Jewish history and a legal scholar to provide strategies for fostering welcoming environments for colleagues, staff, and clients.

Every day, the law is evolving related to the rights of transgender individuals. This session will discuss the terminology, state and federal laws related to accommodation of transgender populations.

This course addresses how cultures of assimilation in law firms can negatively affect the work and career growth of attorneys.

Since its original publication, this title has been updated and fully revised to address the dramatic increase in public misogyny. It has particular applicability to the current state of affairs, given that stay-at-home orders and school closings have led to increased gender biases and more lopsided gender roles, rather than a decrease.