About This Course
In the current legal landscape, the long term success of a law firm no longer solely depends on client relationships and big wins. Diversity and Inclusion are essential. Diverse attorneys are needed to attract, retain, and service an increasingly diverse client base. This CLE presentation provides information on implicit bias, the automatic associations individuals make between groups of people and stereotypes about those groups; and micro-aggressions, the external expressions of those associations. Specifically, we focus on the automatic associations made by individuals on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion and how those associations influence the behavior of professionals within the law firm setting. We also discuss the need for diversity education as a means of addressing implicit bias and micro-aggressions.