Practical Strategies for Mitigating Implicit Bias in the Legal Profession

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Civil Rights, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Law Practice Management, Other, Paralegal, Professional Development, Public Interest

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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, Esq.

Public Law Center

Practice Area: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (+ 1 other areas)

Tyler Press is the Chief Legal Programs officer at the Public Law Center (PLC), where she oversees eight legal teams providing 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 (LAFLA), where she led LAFLA’s racial justice policy work and pursued race-equity focused systemic changes in law. Prior to this role, Tyler was an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Fellow and a government benefits staff attorney. She’s litigated numerous cases in state and federal court, including the 2020 decision in Ortega v. Johnson which ...

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