Leading Differently Across Difference: A National Conference On Training Lawyers As Leaders

Leading Differently Across Difference: A National Conference On Training Lawyers As Leaders

Friday, November 8, 2019 | 8:45 a.m.-7 p.m.

Association of the Bar of the City of New York
42 West 44th Street
New York, NY

This program qualifies for 4 CLE credits in Ethics and 3 CLE credit in *Diversity and inclusion for nontransitional attorneys.

FEATURING

“Facing the Challenge”

Anthony Thompson, Professor of Clinical Law, NYU School of Law

and

“Crosscurrents of Leadership Challenges and Some Suggested Practices and Programs”

Tirien Steinbach, Chief Program Officer, ACLU of Northern California

CO-SPONSORS

Morrison & Foerster

New York State Unified Court System

Abraham J. Gross ’78 Conference and Lecture Fund

Association of American Law Schools Leadership Section

Columbia Law School Center for Institutional and Social Change

CUNY School of Law

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

Fordham Law School

Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law at Cardozo School of Law

NYU School of Law Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law

Paul,Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Conference Overview:

The legal profession and law schools exist in a time of profound changes in the culture and in lawyering across various fields. This conference asks and seeks to provide answers to the questions: How do we promote leadership training in law schools in a more inclusive and forward-thinking manner? How do the profession and the academy confront the need to develop cultural competence; deal with gender, race and other identities affecting full participation; and address generational differences? Why have we not done better in equity and inclusion?

These questions call for navigating a set of tensions that must be addressed as part of both lawyer-leadership development generally and building the capacity to navigate across difference. Law may be reactive, but leadership is proactive. Lawyers learn to be risk averse, but leadership requires risk-taking. These, among the many tensions of legal training, present profound challenges to a profession that must drill down to learn to promote skills and competencies necessary to enable the next generation to confront the challenges facing the profession and the democracy.

The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University is certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an accredited provider of continuing legal education (CLE) in the state of New York. New York CLE credits are available to satisfy the mandatory, transitional/nontransitional requirements for attorneys attending the program. Lawyers admitted in jurisdictions other than New York should check with those jurisdictions to determine CLE requirements in their states.

For more information regarding CLE please contact Judith Black at 516-463-6889.