Join Sharon James (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP), Susan Robertson (Akin), and Gina Roers-Liemandt (American Bar Association) for three perspectives on creating the CLE program intake process.
As the legal industry and society continue to sharpen their focus on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, it is critical that we ensure EDI principles are applied to all minorities in order to protect our system of justice and our profession. It was less than 50 years ago that discriminatory policies flourished in the legal community and that antisemitism kept Jewish lawyers out of non-Jewish law firms across North America, and less than 80 years ago that Jewish lawyers were stripped of their ability to practice law in Europe. Today, this scourge of antisemitism has re-emerged in a different, more dangerous and frightening form across the world, including in the North American legal profession.
