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.
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Practice Area: Other (+ 1 other areas)
Tyler Press Sutherland is the Director of Racial Justice and Equity at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. She leads LAFLA's racial justice policy work, supports staff in pursuing race-equity-focused systemic changes in law, and leads LAFLA's Race Equity Initiative. Tyler grew up in Los Angeles and has devoted her career to advancing the causes of low-income Angelenos of color. Tyler joined LAFLA in 2013 as an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow in LAFLA’s Veterans’ Justice Center, and in 2014 became a staff attorney in the Economic Stability Work Group where she represented poor and low-income clients in ...
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