Featuring thought leaders, experts, and speakers with lived experiences, these sessions provide valuable insights and practical strategies for fostering a more inclusive and representative legal community.
On-Demand Videos
The Meaning of Reconciliation to Legal Professionals
Originally presented June 2, 2022
This workshop helps legal professionals understand their responsibilities and roles in truth and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous communities. Focuses include “unfreezing yourself” by identifying actionable steps that can be taken to foster inclusion, overcome systemic stereotypes/bias and manage expectations. Consideration are given to understand performative action and how to be an authentic Indigenous ally, as outlined in the presenters’ booklet Becoming an Authentic Ally: Finding Your Place in Reconciliation.
Learn how to offer meaningful support, recognize their own vulnerability and knowledge limits, become more effective in communications, consider how they can help with barrier reduction and also about some key Indigenous principles. Presenters Andrea Menard and Marc Bhalla represent an Indigenous and non-Indigenous partnership that apply professional life experiences and practical steps into the area of truth and reconciliation through The Authentic Allyship Project.
Muslim Lawyers in Alberta
Originally presented May 10, 2022
This panel discussion was presented in partnership between the new Alberta Chapter of the Canadian Muslim Lawyers' Association and the CBA Alberta Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee. Panelists Sania Chaudhry, Ilyas Gora, Hannan Mohamud and Iqra Nazir discuss their lived experience as Muslim lawyers in Alberta, Islamophobia, barriers to equity for Muslim lawyers and ways to overcome them, and recommendations for systemic change.
Being an Engaged Bystander
Originally presented May 17, 2021
In this practical and informative webinar, participants will learn terms and concepts related to gender and sexual diversity. Participants will learn about power, privilege and intersectionality, to connect how our systems are built to perpetuate stigma that hinders diversity, equity and inclusion.
Anti-Racism Education for Legal Professionals
Originally presented May 5, 2021
This 1.5-hour workshop aims to provide legal practitioners with a toolkit to identify, unpack and intervene in systemic racism within legal institutions and your own practice. Moving beyond a diversity and inclusion lens, this session encourages members of the legal community to develop an anti-racist framework.
