// Efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in the legal industry have been gaining steam in recent years, with the spotlight increasingly focused on the specific steps lawyers and firms can take to make improvements. 

Several upcoming programs from PLI will provide useful insights into the current state of diversity and inclusion in the legal industry and what’s being done to make progress. The first is a one-day program, Diversity & Inclusion in Law Practice 2022, with a panel of experts reviewing diversity and inclusion in the legal profession today and discussing practical policies and best practices you can put into action in your own workplace.

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Topics to be covered include: 

• Recognizing what needs to be done (both individually and institutionally) to build an inclusive workplace
• Identifying proven practices and policies you can implement to advance diversity and inclusion initiatives in your law office 
• Learning how to create mentoring circles that extend beyond your law office to counter diverse attorneys’ professional isolation and support retention efforts

This program is ideal for all members of the legal profession who are concerned about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, regardless of their role or the nature of their organization. Register today. 

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Another program, Unconscious Bias: How to Recognize and Disrupt Its Impact on Your Decision-Making Process, is a one-hour briefing designed to shed light on unconscious bias (also known as implicit bias) and how it might impact your decisions at work.

Everyone has unconscious biases, and this session will offer ways to identify yours, and how they may surface at work. Topics to be discussed include: 

• Defining unconscious bias and explaining its impact on decision-making
• Examples of law office unconscious bias and strategies for disruption
• Defining microaggressions/micro-inequities and common examples of how they occur in the legal profession
• Strategies to disrupt unconscious bias in your decision-making process
• Strategies to eliminate microaggressions in the legal profession 

Register today to learn more about this critical topic.

Finally, for an in-depth look at implicit bias — with an interactive twist — check out PLI’s on-demand program, Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession: Addressing Implicit Bias. 

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This two-hour program takes learners behind the scenes at the production of a TV drama about a fictional law firm, inviting participants to help make choices around casting, scripts, and storylines to help improve diversity. Through role-playing and goal-setting, participants can gain an understanding of the issues limiting progress on DEI in law firms, and learn ways to address them and create positive change.

Register and start learning today. 

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