Updated: Dec. 2, 2022
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Focused CLEs
The WSBA collaborates with DEI Council, Minority Bar Associations and other members of the legal profession to develop and present a variety of CLEs focused on diversity, equity and inclusion issues. Past programming includes:
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Focused CLE Webinars
2020:
- Other Barriers to Voting Rights (March 2020)
- Legal Responses to Hate Crimes in the Pacific Northwest (Legal Lunchbox™ Series March 2020)
- Confronting Systemic Trauma in Family Law Cases (Legal Lunchbox™ Series August 2020)
- Beyond the Dialogue From Transphobia to Gender Inclusion in the Practice Law (September 2020)
- Washington Initiative for Diversity's Fall Event: Taking Action to Address Social Injustice (September 2020)
2021:
- Understanding Systemic Racism in the Law (Legal Lunchbox™ Series March 2021)
- Diversity Matters (March 2021)
- What We "Prefer" You Know: Advanced LGBTQIA+ Skills and Theory for Practicing Lawyers — Part 1 (March 2021)
- What We "Prefer" You Know: Advanced LGBTQIA+ Skills and Theory for Practicing Lawyers — Part 2 (May 2021)
- The Law of Disability and Ableism: Then, Now, and Tomorrow (April 2021)
- Assess, Educate, and Act: How to Begin Advancing Equity and Inclusion in your Practice (April 2021)
- Institutional Racism and Legal System Responsibilities — Part 1 (May 2021)
- Institutional Racism and Legal System Responsibilities — Part 2 (June 2021)
- Microaggressions: The View and the Science in 2021 (June 2021)
- Combating Structural Racism: Strategies and Best Practices To Create A More Equity-Minded Organization and Justice System (Legal Lunchbox™ Series June 2021)
- Institutional Racism in the Courts: Truth, Reconciliation, and Connection (August 2021)
- Ethics and Diversity (September 2021)
- Combating Structural Racism: Organizational Equity Change (Legal Lunchbox™ Series September 2021)
2022:
- Voter Suppression 101- What it Takes to do Voting Rights Work (Legal Lunchbox™ Series February 2022)
- Disability Justice 101: Inclusion for Legal Professionals (Legal Lunchbox™ Series May 2022)
- Not Over Yet: The Impact of COVID-19, Racial Reckoning, and SCOTUS on LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit Civil Rights (Legal Lunchbox™ Series September 2022)
- Ethics, Bias, and the Plea-Bargaining Process (August 2022)
For more information contact: diversity@wsba.org
WSBA Diversity and Inclusion programs are supported by charitable donations to the Washington State Bar Foundation. To make a tax-deductible contribution, please visit the Foundation online or email foundation@wsba.org
