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Advancing Women in Law Summit Part 1
Diversity and Inclusion
Advancing Women in Law Summit Part 1
Advancing Women in Law Summit Parts 1 and 2 is based on the Spring Summit for Advancing Women in the Law, a March 3, 2020 event convened by the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the...
Advancing Women in Law Summit Part 2
Diversity and Inclusion
Advancing Women in Law Summit Part 2
Advancing Women in Law Summit Parts 1 and 2 is based on the Spring Summit for Advancing Women in the Law, a March 3, 2020 event convened by the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the...
Civility in Legal Practice: Why it Matters
Civility
Civility in Legal Practice: Why it Matters
Practicing law can be inherently adversarial. Attorneys are confronted with uncivil behavior from opposing counsel, clients, colleagues, and even judges. The question is, how should they respond? And what impact might these uncivil behaviors have...
Communicating During Conflict: Understanding Your Role
Professionalism
Communicating During Conflict: Understanding Your Role
Incivility in the legal profession continues to be a challenge. According to the Commission’s 2021 Survey on Professionalism, 54% of Illinois attorneys have experienced uncivil or unprofessional behavior from another lawyer in the past 6...
Ending Harassment, Bullying, and Incivility in the Legal Workplace
Civility
Ending Harassment, Bullying, and Incivility in the Legal Workplace
The American Bar Association Model Rules, as well as the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct, indicate that civility is required for the practice of law. However, in the legal profession, negative and derogatory comments are often directed at...
High-Performing and Highly Stressed: How Attorneys Can Prioritize Mental Health
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
High-Performing and Highly Stressed: How Attorneys Can Prioritize Mental Health
Attorneys are constantly working. Many are not sleeping or taking care of their health and feel the need to be perfect or at least excellent at all times in all areas of life: as employees, colleagues, parents, friends, children, and even...
Rebalance the Scales: Implicit Bias, Diversity, and the Legal Profession Part 1
Diversity and Inclusion
Rebalance the Scales: Implicit Bias, Diversity, and the Legal Profession Part 1
We live in a dramatically transforming world, where the demographics of our population are more diverse than ever before. Meanwhile, our legal profession has continually lagged behind the diversity of our country. As our nation permanently...
Rebalance the Scales: Implicit Bias, Diversity, and the Legal Profession Part 2
Diversity and Inclusion
Rebalance the Scales: Implicit Bias, Diversity, and the Legal Profession Part 2
We live in a dramatically transforming world, where the demographics of our population are more diverse than ever before. Meanwhile, our legal profession has continually lagged behind the diversity of our country. As our nation permanently...
The Buck Stops Here: Ethics and Professionalism for In-House Counsel
Professionalism
The Buck Stops Here: Ethics and Professionalism for In-House Counsel
This course satisfies the Rule 716(c) requirement for foreign in-house counsel seeking limited admission to the Illinois bar. Like law firm attorneys, in-house counsel face many ethical and professionalism challenges in their daily practices....
The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Well-Being
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Well-Being
The term “lawyer well-being” has gone mainstream in conversations on mental health in the profession. But what does lawyer well-being mean? What are the benefits? How can lawyers achieve a state of well-being? The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to...

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