How (Un)ethical are you? Gain insight into unconscious bias and its significant influence in the work environment and your client interactions. Learn how to confront these biases in the legal field with practical strategies for change and expand your ethical awareness.
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair:
Justine Anderson, Senior Associate, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers; President, Women Lawyers Association NSW
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm How (Un)Ethical Are You? Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Join Barrister, Leah Marrone as she discusses what Unconscious Bias is and how it affects us in both our workplaces and our clients in our legal advice and representation.
- Examine how gender pay gap in the profession can be in part overcome by addressing unconscious bias
- Receive practical strategies to help overcome unconscious biases, as Leah draws upon her own experience of utilising these strategies for structural change in the legal profession around sexual harassment and pay gap in particular
- Explore lessons that could be learnt from Leah’s experience of over a decade of advocacy in this area
Presented by Leah Marrone, Barrister, Flinders Chambers; Respect@Work Council member, Law Foundation member, Immediate Past President of Australian Women Lawyers Ltd
Presenters
Ms. Leah Marrone, Barrister, Flinders Chambers
Leah Marrone is a past President of the Women Lawyer's Association of SA Inc., a role that she held for three years. Leah is on the Equal Opportunity Committee of the Law Council of Australia and has been advocating for strategies to address sexual harassment in the profession, including authoring a paper on this. Leah is also a member of the Alumni Council of the University of Adelaide. Leah has been a recipient of the Law Society of SA’s Gender Equity in Law Award and was last year named on the SA Women’s Honour Roll for her work and advocacy for women’s rights and other social justice causes.
Justine Anderson, Senior Associate, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
Justine Anderson is a civil litigation lawyer focusing on medical litigation and her practice includes gynaecological and obstetric cases, wrongful birth, cases involving pulmonary embolism, sepsis, adverse surgical outcomes and coronial inquires. Justine is the President of the Women Lawyers Association of NSW. Involved since 2016, by 2019, she led a sub-committee called ‘Welcome to the Law’ aimed at law students and early career lawyers. She ran a suite of seminars on written and oral advocacy, court appearances, emotional resilience, mentoring, networking and business development to name a few. Justine is the outgoing Chair of the Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers Diversity Group which aims to advance diversity and inclusion within the firm. Prior to joining Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers she worked in a number pathology laboratories and private hospitals, providing her with a unique set of problem solving skills when approaching medical and other legal matters.
This seminar is part of a series
Ethics, Professional Skills & Practice Management, Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks
Wanting to square away all your compulsory CPD points before the end of March? Attend these 3 all-encompassing hour-long sessions either online or on demand. They will fit perfectly into your busy schedule as you can have some lunch while you enhance your practice, ensure ethical compliance and polish your professional skills. WEB242N02Z
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.
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