This program has been cancelled.
Presented by the Connecticut Bar Institute
About the Program
Despite decades of social, legal, and political efforts aimed at stopping sex discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace, significant problems persist. The legal profession is sadly no exception. Because of their training and prominence in society, lawyers are expected to not only follow the law but to set a standard of professional behavior, but cases abound of lawyers engaging in inappropriate behavior, including sexual harassment. This program is designed to help those who supervise and manage lawyers address and prevent potential sexual harassment. This is an advance program that assumes the participants have recently completed the two-hour mandatory Connecticut sexual harassment prevention training.
You Will Learn
- The basic and advanced legal frameworks surrounding sexual harassment;
- Social science around sexual harassment and sex discrimination, and how racial, ethnic, religious, and other identities intersect with and can amplify such harassment and discrimination;
- Practical tools for identifying and eliminating workplace sexual harassment;
- How to deal with sensitive, potentially offensive, client information in the legal workplace;
- Dealing with power and information imbalances in the legal environment;
- Strategies for confronting lawyers who act inappropriately.
Who Should Attend
Anyone, whether a lawyer or not, who acts as a supervisor in a legal setting and who has completed the required Connecticut sexual harassment prevention training within the past two years.
Cost
(In-person registration costs include electronic materials and parking in the public garage at 35 Bank St. Virtual registration costs include electronic materials and is priced the same as in-person registration to compensate for the expense of technology for providing remote participation.)
In-person attendees, please see the CBA In-person Visitor and Event Attendance Policy.
Member $25,
Non-Member $50,
Student Member $10
CT: 1.0 CLE Credit (Ethics)
If the seminar is recorded, all member registrants will receive complimentary access to the recording approximately six weeks after the program. Please note that refunds will not be granted once course materials have been sent. Cancellations made less than 2 business days prior to event are non-refundable.
Closed captioning will be available during the seminar presentation for virtual attendees.