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Diversity and Inclusion Workshop About the LPM Diversity and Inclusion Workshop The inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Workshop, presented by the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Section, will take place at The Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois on July 12-13, 2012. This two-day Workshop, designed for law firms of all sizes and geographic scope, will provide practical guidelines for helping to determine the effectiveness of a law firm’s diversity efforts. While employers recognize the theoretical value of diversity and inclusion programs, the efforts often lack practical effectiveness. There is a need to constantly educate ourselves and members of our firms on the importance of diversity and inclusion. People of color, women, people with disabilities, LGBT orientations, and others with traditional differences were (and continue to be) discriminated against. Managing diversity efforts can help close the gap in hiring and lawyer retention. And the legal landscape in this area is ever-changing. Please join your fellow legal professionals for this two-day Workshop dedicated to improving and addressing issues of diversity and inclusion in law firms. Whether you are reviewing your current policies and efforts or creating new ones, your participation is critical to the continuing success and development of the profession and your own profitability.
What You Will Learn • How diversity among attorneys can benefit a law practice • To evaluate current diversity efforts or put new efforts into practice • How the legal profession is doing its part to promote diversity and inclusion
Registration and Pricing Your registration fee includes access to every program over the day and a half Workshop, two breakfasts, lunch and the Networking Reception.
Register early to get the best pricing! LPM Member Section of Litigation Member ABA Member Non Member
By June 20, 2012 After June 20, 2012 $199 $249 $199 $249 $249 $299 $299 $349
How to Register
Visit the Workshop Website at www.ambar.org/LPMDiversity or call the ABA Service Center at 1.800.285.2221 and register while you get the best rate!
Hotel The LPM Diversity and Inclusion Workshop will be housed at The Drake Hotel (140 E. Walton Place, Chicago, IL, 60611, www.thedrakehotel.com). Reserve your room today by calling the hotel at 312.707.2200. Be sure to ask for the LPM Diversity Workshop room rate of $195/night plus tax. Reservations must be made by 5:00 p.m. CST on June 20, 2012.
Schedule-at-a-Glance Thursday, July 12, 2012 Registration/Breakfast
7:30am – 8:00am
8:00am – 8:20am Welcome to the LPM Diversity and Inclusion Workshop 8:20am – 10:30am
The Next IQ: The Next Generation of Intelligence on Diversity & Inclusion in the Legal Profession
10:45am – 12:30pm
Implicit Bias – What Law Firms Need to Know*
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Luncheon/Meet the Authors
1:45pm – 2:45pm
Fair Measure: Toward Effective Attorney Evaluations*
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Navigating Uncharted Territory: A Law Firm Primer on Management of Lawyers with Mental Health Issues*
4:00pm – 5:30pm
The Current State of Affairs on Diversity and Inclusion in Law Firms
5:30pm – 6:30pm
6:30pm
Networking Reception
Taste of Chicago Dine-Arounds
Friday, July 13, 2012 8:00am – 8:45am 9:00am – 10:00am
Networking Breakfast PRESENTS THE Update: Academy for Leadership and Inclusion
10:15am – 11:15am
Best Practices for Promoting LGBT Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession*
11:15am – 12:30pm
The Key to Inclusion: First, Know Thyself
12:30pm – 12:45pm
Closing Remarks
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Educational Sessions Thursday, July 12, 2012 8:00am – 8:20am
Welcome to the LPM Diversity and Inclusion Workshop Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III, ABA President, Member-in-Charge, Frost Brown Todd, LLC, Florence, KY Tom L. Mighell, Chair, ABA Law Practice Management Section, Senior Consultant, Contoural, Inc., Dallas, TX Begin your experience at the inaugural LPM Diversity and Inclusion Workshop with remarks from Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III, President of the American Bar Association, and Tom Mighell, Chair of the ABA Law Practice Management Section. Hear how the concept for this Workshop became reality and what you can expect during the day and a half Workshop. 8:20am – 10:30am
The Next IQ: The Next Generation of Intelligence on Diversity & Inclusion in the Legal Profession Speaker: Arin N. Reeves, J.D., Ph.D., President, Nextions, Chicago, IL “Never mistake activity for achievement.” - John Wooden. As the world changes rapidly in this new millennium, we need to update and upgrade our vocabulary and efforts in order to create sustained change in the diversity and inclusion within legal organizations, leaders in our profession and individual attorneys. We have to get away from the models of the past where diversity and inclusion efforts are often measured in terms of activity, but as many of you already know, activity does not always accomplish the results we want to see or the impact we want to make. So, what is the difference between activity and achievement of results? The right incentive (the why) and innovative solutions (the how). Do you know your why? Does your organization know its why? This interactive presentation will explore why “the why” matters and how the “business case” and “right thing to do” are outmoded models that may result in activity but they don’t lead to achievement. In addition to “the why”, this presentation will also explore “the how” questions such as: how can you articulate and communicate the difference between diversity and inclusion? How can organizations and individuals ensure that they are working on inclusion alongside their diversity efforts because each is ineffectual without the other? 10:45am – 12:30pm
Implicit Bias – What Law Firms Need to Know* Speakers: Hon. Bernice Donald, U.S. Court of Appeals for Sixth Circuit, Memphis, TN; Sarah Redfield, Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire School of Law, Durham, NH In 2012, no one would say “We’d like to promote her, but we know she wants to have a family…we’ve tried, and it just doesn’t work out.” No one would say out loud “We better make damn sure there are only whites on the jury or we’ll never get a verdict for our side.” Indeed, most, if not all of us, do not subscribe to these views, and we do not want to believe anything like these sentiments exist in our practices. But a growing body of research suggests – without intent, and often without knowledge – we are influenced by unconscious implicit bias. Being implicitly biased does not necessarily mean we act in explicitly biased ways. The program will explain what implicit bias is and how it may influence all of our decisions. Attendees will learn to recognize some behaviors that may suggest bias or differential treatment. Learn some techniques that will help you and your firm debias perceptions and improve interactions. Attendees will also take the implicit bias association test which will offer them insight into their own biases – everyone has them! The program will also summarize the neuroscience relevant to understanding implicit bias.
Register by June 20, 2012, at www.ambar.org/LPMDiversity to save on registration! * CLE credit has been requested
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Luncheon/Meet the Authors Included in your registration is a luncheon that will feature discussions from two acclaimed authors on diversity issues, Sarah Redfield and Arin N. Reeves. Enjoy great food as the authors introduce their books in their own words.
The Education Pipeline to the Professions: Programs that Work to Increase Diversity
By: Sarah Redfield Despite decades of working to improve the diversity of the American Bar, minority attorneys make up only 10% of the profession. In The Education Pipeline to the Professions, Professor Sarah Redfield, a national expert in education law and diversity issues, brings together fourteen exemplary programs that work to change the face of the legal profession.
The Next IQ: The Next Level of Intelligence for 21st Century Leaders
By: Arin N. Reeves This groundbreaking new book will introduce you to new ways of learning, leading and thinking about leadership and inclusion in the workplace through an integrated exploration of research studies, stories, learning experiences and tested solutions. In it, you’ll discover how to make individual and collective intelligence more intelligent by changing the way you and your organization think.
Follow the conversation on Twitter with #DIW2012 1:45pm – 2:45pm
Fair Measure: Toward Effective Attorney Evaluations* Speakers: Eileen Letts, Co-Managing Partner, Greene and Letts, Chicago, IL; Patricia Costello Slovak, Partner, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, IL Is your attorney evaluation process really unbiased? Do you need help making it more objective? This program will provide a guide to implement and conduct an evaluation program with unbiased evaluations and will discuss raising evaluators’ consciousness of the various ways that gender bias can impact performance reviews. Sample checklists and evaluation forms will also be discussed. Although the discussion will be generally geared to gender bias in evaluating attorneys, it can be universally applied to other under-represented groups and other professionals. 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Navigating Uncharted Territory: A Law Firm Primer on Management of Lawyers with Mental Health Issues* Speakers: Kathy Flaherty, Senior Staff Attorney, Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut, Inc., Middletown, CT; Howard Fulfrost, Partner, Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Lisa Razzano, Ph.D., CPRP, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Deputy Director, Center on Mental Health Services Research & Policy Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL Baby boomers have careers lasting years beyond those of their parents’ generation; and scientific breakthroughs are eliminating mental illness as a barrier to finding success within the legal profession. As a result, law firms are now confronted with issues related to employing and managing attorneys who face new and emerging challenges to their practice of law. This presentation will provide law firms with real-world guidance for balancing: their ethical obligations to clients and the legal profession; the unique needs of this growing segment of the population; the stigma associated with these disabilities within the profession and greater community; and the reluctance of both employers and employees to confront the impact of such disabilities on legal practice. The role that lawyer assistance programs (LAPs) may play in addressing these issues will also be discussed. Attendees will leave this presentation with the information necessary to begin to confront these issues as they arise. Howard Fulfrost is a partner at Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost in Los Angeles, CA, and a current Commissioner. He can speak firsthand about his own mental health condition, the challenges he encountered in operating a law firm, and his strategies for finding success within the profession. * CLE credit has been requested
4:00pm – 5:30pm
The Current State of Affairs on Diversity and Inclusion in Law Firms Moderator: Aracely Munoz Petrich, Associate General Counsel & Director of Large Law Programs, Association of Corporate Counsel, Washington, DC Speakers: Sonia Alvarez-Robinson, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Atlanta, GA; Joan Bullock, Professor, Florida A & M University, Orlando, FL; Laurie J. Lieb, Director, Law Firm Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Phoenix, AZ; Ben Wilson, Managing Partner, Beverage Diamond, Washington, DC; Bob A. Young, Partner, English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, LLP, Bowling Green, KY The Law Firm Survey team from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP will share aggregate results from their 2012 Cultural Awareness & Inclusion Scorecard (CAIS) benchmarking program. The CAIS is a confidential two-pronged benchmarking program that analyzes a firm’s diversity and inclusion initiatives relative to a group of their peers. A panel of law firm managers will discuss what the data shows and portends for law firms and their inclusion efforts.
Friday, July 13, 2012 9:00am – 10:00am
Update: Academy for Leadership and Inclusion Speaker: Joseph K. West, President & CEO, Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), Washington, DC Joseph K. West, President & CEO of MCCA, will discuss MCCA’s Academy for Leadership and Inclusion. MCCA’s Academy is a groundbreaking, interactive training program designed to show firms and corporations how to define, create, and sustain a diverse and inclusive workplace. Participants in the Academy learn inclusion principles that can be implemented immediately within their organization. In partnership with the Center for Legal Inclusiveness (CLI), MCCA has embarked on presenting its intensive training across the country throughout 2012. The courses, developed by Kathleen Nalty, Executive Director of CLI, and Dr. Arin Reeves, Nextions, will be offered in 10 cities across the country: Houston; Chicago; Miami; Washington, DC; Los Angeles; New York; Atlanta; Seattle; Minneapolis and Kansas City. 10:15am – 11:15am
Best Practices for Promoting LGBT Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession* Speakers: Andrew Chapin, Director of Public Interest Scholars & Counseling, Fordham University School of Law, Bronx, NY; Louis Lopez, Deputy Chief, Employment Litigation Section, US Department of Justice, Washington, DC; Gail H. Morse, Partner, Jenner & Block, Chair, LGBT Forum, Chicago, IL The panel will present ways in which law firms, corporate legal departments, law schools, and bar associations can promote inclusion of LGBT persons. The panel will provide resources to guide law firms on ways to implement initiatives that demonstrate their promotion and support of attorney and staff involvement in LGBT organizations, including examples of activities and actions. The panel will also offer resources on how to recruit and retain LGBT legal talent, diversity training, and other opportunities to develop and strengthen LGBT diversity and inclusion in a variety of work environments. 11:15am – 12:30pm
The Key to Inclusion: First, Know Thyself Speakers: Stewart Levine, Owner, Resolution Works, Oakland, CA; John Mitchell, Managing Director, KM Advisors, LLC, Chicago, IL As lawyers, we spend our time representing the interests of others. How well do you represent your own? Do you even know what those interests are? Your success as a professional is directly linked to your ability to see who you are and all that you have to offer others. Those who have a clear sense of their unique personal identity have a career advantage over those who don’t. Diversity and inclusion efforts frequently focus on identifying and incorporating “visible” differences. Regardless of your “visible” differences, your “invisible” characteristics often play the most significant role in how you see yourself and how others see and interact with you. During this interactive 75-minute session, we will discuss the advantage of the unique diversity that individuals bring to their personal and professional environs. Participants will explore many facets of their “invisible” diverse characteristics and learn how to use them to become their own advocate. Start the process in finding success, happiness, and career satisfaction built around your innate human qualities. * CLE credit has been requested
Networking and Social Events Networking Reception
Join your colleagues and friends to discuss the great programming from the first day of the Workshop during the Networking Reception on Thursday, July 12, 2012, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. Experience exceptional cuisine and tasty beverages from The Drake Hotel and maybe you’ll make a few new friends while you’re there.
Taste of Chicago Dine-Arounds
Pick a topic; pick a Chicago restaurant; or pick a host. No matter what you pick, the choice is yours with the Taste of Chicago Dine-Arounds. On Thursday, July 12, 2012, registrants have the opportunity to participate in this Dutch-treat event where we make dinner reservations throughout the city of Chicago and each dinner is based on a select topic with a host in the field. Sign up to meet others who have similar interests!
About the ABA Law Practice Management Section The ABA Law Practice Management Section (LPM) is your link to being a better lawyer. Through a never ending supply of fresh resources and guidance, LPM helps you practice more efficiently and helps you achieve a better bottom line. In addition to the LPM Diversity and Inclusion Workshop, our resources now include a new webpage devoted to diversity and inclusion. We’ve assembled a great collection of resources for law firms. Check it out at www.lawpractice.org. To get these resources, plus a discount to attend the LPM Diversity and Inclusion Workshop, become a member of LPM! Dues are only $50/year and the benefits exceed the cost. Join today www.ambar.org/joinlpm!
ABA Law Practice Management Section Executive Committee Tom L. Mighell, Chair, Senior Consultant, Contoural, Inc., Dallas, TX Joan R. M. Bullock, Chair-Elect, Professor, Florida A & M University, Orlando, FL Michael P. Downey, Vice Chair, Partner, Armstrong Teasdale LLP, St. Louis, MO Bob A. Young, Secretary, Partner, English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, LLP, Bowling Green, KY Andrea S. Hartley, Immediate Past Chair, Shareholder, Akerman Senterfitt LLP, Miami, FL
Planning Committee Kenneth O.C. Imo, Director of Diversity, WilmerHale, LLP, Washington, DC John Mitchell, Managing Director, KM Advisors, LLC, Chicago, IL Aracely Munoz Petrich, Associate General Counsel & Director of Large Law Programs, Association of Corporate Counsel, Washington, DC Arin N. Reeves, J.D., Ph.D., President, Nextions, Chicago, IL Bob A. Young, Partner, English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, LLP, Bowling Green, KY
ABA Co-Sponsors Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity Commission on Disability Rights Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Commission on Women in the Profession Criminal Justice Section General Practice Solo & Small Firm Division Government & Public Sector Lawyers Division Health Law Section Public Contract Law Section of Intellectual Property Law
Section of International Law Section of Labor and Employment Law Section of Litigation Section of Public Utility Communications and Transportation Law Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of Science and Technology Law Standing Committee on Paralegals Standing Committee on Pro Bono & Public Service The Forum on Communications Law The Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries Young Lawyers Division
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