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Career Development Tools for Diverse Attorneys Track
101. Soft Skills & Your Career Advancement Are you trusted? How strong are the relationships in your organization with those above and below you? Do you listen actively and eff ectively? Can you adroitly manage confl ict? This in-depth panel will address the “soft skills” you need to you advance your career. You will leave this panel learning how to develop self-awareness, make the most of your professional relationships, and enhance your communication techniques.
102. The Explicit Impact of Implicit Bias: Understanding Your Implicit Biases & How You Aff ect Others Much has been written about implicit and unconscious bias, but what do those terms actually mean? How does bias impact our lives and work? This presentation will address how implicit biases aff ect the way we learn, work, and lead. Learn the steps to overcome bias and unleash the potential of every member of your organization.
103. Judgment, Common Sense & Trusting Your Gut: A Tool Box for Developing Business Acumen How adept are you at dealing with situations in ways that lead to positive outcomes? When should you trust your gut? Good judgment is essential to good lawyering, but can judgment be improved? This panel of experienced professionals will teach you techniques to improve business acumen and advance your client’s objectives.
Investing in Diverse Talent Track
201. Walk A Mile In Her Shoes: Working Mothers & Career Advancement How do working mothers “balance” both their careers and family obligations? This panel discussion will spotlight the special challenges working mothers face while advancing their career. You will learn key recommendations for supervisors and organizational leaders on how to support team members juggling child-rearing duties.
202. Growing a Crop of Inclusive Leaders through Development of Core Competencies Many corporations and law fi rms that are focused on diversity have sought to reduce the role of bias in performance evaluations. Organizations have increasingly developed core competency models to achieve this aim. This panel will discuss how to develop a strong core competency framework that also fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace.
203. Creating Diversity Internship Programs in Your Corporate Legal Department Is your legal department looking to impact the pipeline of diverse lawyers entering the profession, but unable to hire directly from law schools? Are you with a law fi rm looking to engage your clients on pipeline issues? This how-to discussion will teach legal departments the ins and outs of creating an internship program for diverse law students. Law fi rm leaders will learn how fi rms can partner with corporate legal departments to support these programs. Hear from experienced panelists who have created successful internship programs.
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Creating Organizational Change Track
301. Measuring Your Organization’s Inclusiveness Eff orts Are you engaged in systemic changes in your organization with the intent to lead to greater diversity and inclusion? How do you know if your organization is more inclusive? How do you develop metrics with respect to inclusiveness, as opposed to traditional diversity metrics? Attend this workshop and learn how to assess and measure your organization’s success at creating an inclusive environment.
302. Implementing an LGBT Employee Resource Group that Drives Organizational Change This workshop will provide participants with tools and strategies to successfully implement an employee resource group that enhances the experience of your LGBT employees. Learn how resource groups diff er from affi nity groups. Topics to be covered include: what are the right employee policies and benefi ts, the value of fi nancial sponsorship of external organizations, and the importance of community outreach.
303. Using Diversity as a Strategy for Increased Law Firm Profi tability A panel of law department and law fi rm leaders will discuss how diversity and inclusion can be used as a strategy to increase law fi rm profi tability. The panel will discuss systems for integrating diverse lawyers into business development teams; promoting diverse lawyers’ engagement with their own communities; rewards to encourage lasting cultural change; and measuring and communicating the impact of diversity initiatives on bottom line results.
Diversity & the Profession Track
401. Diversity in the Courtroom This program will explore diversity in the courtroom from three diff erent perspectives: judges, in-house counsel, and outside counsel. The panel will discuss the role that diversity plays in a trial setting; including how concerns about diversity impact a jury; issues companies should remember when selecting a legal team to represent them in court; and diversity related issues that litigators encounter in the courtroom.
402. Demographics in Corporate Legal Departments MCCA released its groundbreaking research report, A Comprehensive Examination of Diversity Demographics,
Initiatives, and Policies in Corporate Legal Departments, which studies
the diversity demographics, initiatives, and standards that exist in corporate legal departments. This panel discussion will focus on where women and minorities stand in corporate legal departments, and how corporations are tracking retention and promotion. This discussion will also provide excellent benchmarking opportunities for corporate legal departments looking to advance diversity and inclusion in their companies.
403. Success Stories from Corporate America’s Partnership with Minority- & Women-Owned Law Firms Are you aware of the signifi cant number of successful relationships that exist between corporate America and minority- and women-owned law fi rms? Are you familiar with the programs and resources that exist to increase the number of minority- and women- owned fi rms that represent companies in the Fortune 1000? This discussion will address the current state of diversity in the representation of corporate America and how to obtain a slice of the Fortune 1000 legal spend pie.
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