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I am a huge advocate of #AccessToJustice work and believe that every attorney needs to consider and reflect on how their work promotes or hinders the accessibility of the law, rights, and justice to the public and society at large. The connection between understanding and unlearning white supremacy culture and fulfilling our roles as legal professionals and improving access is deeply intertwined. We cannot do one without understanding and confronting our role in the other. "The Professional Responsibility Committee is co-sponsoring this CLE because it is imperative that every attorney practicing in New York understands and confronts the inherent biases and barriers that stand in the way of access to justice, so that every attorney can fulfill her duty under the Rules of Professional Responsibility to promote access to the legal profession." -Rosanne Felicello, Chair New York City Bar Association Professional Responsibility Committee Join us October 3rd on Zoom: https://lnkd.in/dxZKhUjb 🤔 Recognizing the Inherent Bias Within the Legal Profession and Identifying ➡ Your ⬅ Relationship with It on Oct 3rd 10AM-12PM EST An interactive CLE program about the systems, attitudes, stereotypes and actions that uphold white supremacy and prevent true inclusion - from the client to the law student to the courtroom and beyond. Engage in real time discussions about white supremacy with a panel of attorneys and Regina Jackson & Saira Rao, authors of New York Times Bestseller “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Racism and How to Do Better” and subjects of the documentary “Deconstructing Karen.” Purchase of the book 📕 "White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism And How To Do Better" is not required for this CLE program, however we encourage attendees to read or listen to the book in advance. It is also available at libraries online and in-person, including the New York Public Library. During this live webcast, moderators and the panel will dive into: ✅ It’s All About the Money: How generational wealth impacts the work you do. ✅ The Violence of your Silence: How your silence undermines the integrity of the law. ✅ Your MACROaggressions: How microaggressions impact your Black, Indigenous and non-Black colleagues of color. ✅ The Pro-Bono Savior: The saviorism in pro-bono work and how to transform the client experience. ✅ The Call to Action: Building accountability through compensation, advancement, and real-world consequences. 

Today Poirier Law Firm recognizes and honors Juneteenth. This annual holiday, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in 1865. As we celebrate today, we must also recognize the systemic barriers still in place and the work that must be done to dismantle them. #Juneteenth #poirierlawfirm #thepoirierlawfirm #attorney

February is Black History Month and we'll honoring trailblazing black women in law. Learn more about these incredible woman and their impact on today's legal system this month on our page. #womeninlaw

Join AAUW CEO Gloria L. Blackwell in conversation with AAUW American Fellowship alumna Dr. Tamika Nunley as they discuss her recent book, The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia, 1662-1865. This book examines clemency in legal cases that involve enslaved women accused of capital crime in early Virginia. In these legal encounters, we not only see a system that worked to define and affirm a commitment to legal paternalism that upheld the rule of law, but decades of responses made by the countless enslaved women accused of capital offenses. The Demands of Justice examines how these responses constituted the makings of an intellectual history of enslaved women’s articulations of justice. Register: https://lnkd.in/dgW34pMm #justicefortheenslaved #justiceforblackwomen #blackwomenshistory #africanamericanwomenshistory #AAUW

What does our commitment to accountability look like when we say we want to create more equitable communities? to heal the profession of law? to better serve our clients? What does it actually look like in practice? Because none of us will say anything if we keep holding ourselves to the standard of professional experts explaining and dismantling harm and oppression, before we feel confident and comfortable speaking up. I've realized that we can (and we need to) start where we are to get to the point where we are showing up every day actively invested in being unapologetic voices against racism. This is a life-long journey, and we will need to learn to embrace the messiness, the mistakes, the ignorance that we bring to anti-racist work when we step on this path. We need to start asking the questions of who is being centered, why do we care or not care, who is being harmed by this decision, who is being helped, and is that benefit perpetuating white supremacy culture or contributing to dismantling and divesting from it? "The Council on Children is proud to co-sponsor this important DEI training as working on these issues is a life long journey and commitment. The more we learn, practice and apply an anti racist mindset, the more we can do to heal our world and better serve our clients." -Cathy Cramer, Chair New York City Bar Association Council on Children Committee Please join us for this unprecedented program: Recognizing the Inherent Bias Within the Legal Profession and Identifying Your Relationship with It An interactive CLE program about the systems, attitudes, stereotypes and actions that uphold white supremacy and prevent true inclusion - from the client to the law student to the courtroom and beyond. Engage in real time discussions about white supremacy with a panel of attorneys and Regina Jackson & Saira Rao, authors of New York Times Bestseller “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Racism and How to Do Better” and subjects of the documentary “Deconstructing Karen.” Tuesday, October 3, 2023 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Zoom Register Here: https://lnkd.in/dxZKhUjb

In 2023, it is of absolute importance that within the legal field, we continue to stomp out racism and protect the human right to not be racially abused. There is no more room for racism and we must fight to uphold the law and protect those most vulnerable.

Honoring a legend. Read more about the life + legacy of civil rights scholar Charles Ogletree and his commitment to justice and equity. https://loom.ly/6LKNW1I

This February, Maraziti Falcon would like to recognize and honor the countless contributions of Black trailblazers in law, past and present. ⚖ Together, let's continue championing diversity, equity, and justice. 💙 #BlackHistoryMonth #celebrateblackhistory #diversitymatters #inclusionmatters #environmentallaw #redevelopmentlaw #landuselaw #realestatelaw #localgovernmentlaw #njlawfirm #njlawyers

bell hooks: "white supremacy isn't a white thing. It's part of this culture. It's part of how all of us have been taught to think about difference ... who's better, who's inferior, who's superior. I prefer 'white supremacy' to 'racism' precisely because it says that we're all being socialized to think along certain dualistic lines. The notion of that which is light or white being better, that which is dark or black being worse, bad, inferior ... is something that everyone in the culture is socialized to think." I agree with the late bell hooks. I believe arguments over "racism" have been unsuccessful in persuading a majority of White Americans to abandon their beliefs in the ideology of racial hierarchy (valuing and devaluing humans by race) and white supremacy, particularly white male supremacy. I believe the primary reason that Americans continue to have unproductive and unsuccessful discourse and debates over "racism" is because we are not focusing on the true problem in American society: racial hierarchy and white supremacy. This ideology is ingrained within the core of anti-DEI activism. The defense of white supremacy and defense of the status quo conditions of power, wealth and influence we all inherited from a 20th century of racialized segregationist laws, systems, public policies and private sector practices, is the common motivating factor behind the well-organized and coordinated nationwide attacks on DEI. Anti-DEI activists use their privileged powers of the purse, legislation and litigation to cause harm to those seeking to change the status quo of white supremacy in America. The war waged against DEI by a network of more than 100 conservative organizations is aimed principally at leading DEI voices ... most notably Black women. bell hooks calls it out plainly. My studies of the reports produced by several conservative think tanks, media articles and opinions written by conservative voices, and the inflammatory public condemnations of DEI made by White male policymakers and the community of conservative millionaire and billionaire donors, confirms the point that bell hooks makes in this interview with Charlie Rose long ago: white supremacy is the ideological culprit that we need to expose and put on trial in the court of public opinion. I'm not calling for a conviction. I'm calling for a trial in the court of public opinion. Let's respectfully present evidence that the ideology of racial hierarchy & white supremacy, which was explicit and mainstream in past generations (even recently), continues to operate in plain sight today under the guise of an "anti-DEI crusade" (NYT headline) and myriad other euphemisms, symbols and political messaging. The truth is a critical missing component in political discourse that attacks DEI. Let the truth be revealed. Then let folks choose where they stand on the issue of DEI: truthfully.

I like this viewpoint. Breaks things down to a more elementary baseline, which can make learning and unlearning much more digestible.