Practical Strategies for Mitigating Implicit Bias in the Legal Profession
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About
This Course
Everyone has biases, but as attorneys, we should strive to mitigate our own biases and learn how to effectively deal with bias when it comes up in practice. This levels course is for attorneys who have learned what implicit bias is, have taken the Implicit Association Tests (IATs), and think, now what?
Attend this course and learn how to assess your decision-making, learn strategies for mitigating your bias in decision-making, and learn strategies for dealing with the bias of others, including those of your clients. This all-levels course will leave you feeling confident that you are making sound decisions in your working life.
Learning Objectives:
- Discover how to assess your own decision-making to see if implicit bias has come into play
- Discover strategies to mitigate implicit bias from affecting your decision making process
- Explore strategies to deal with biases articulated by clients, colleagues, or the judiciary
About the Presenters
Tyler Press Sutherland, Esq.
Public Law Center
Practice Area: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (+ 1 other areas)
Tyler Press Sutherland is the Director of Legal Services at Public Law Center (PLC), overseeing a fifty-five-person legal team that provides free services to low-income residents of Orange County.Before joining PLC, Tyler was the inaugural Director of Racial Justice and Equity at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, where she led LAFLA’s racial justice policy work, supported staff in pursuing race-equity-focused systemic changes in law, and led LAFLA’s Race Equity Initiative.Tyler started her legal career at LAFLA as an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Veterans’ Legal Fellow. She later became a staff attorney in the Economic Stability Work Group, representing ...
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