Available CLE Credit:    Diversity + Inclusion (1 credit)

Course Description: This 1-credit Diversity and Inclusion module is part of a 4-hour seminar is a comprehensive look at racial justice in courthouse practice, including the ethical, tactical, and strategic decisions individual practitioners are confronted with in courthouse practice and the mechanisms by which to ensure diversity and inclusion in practice.  Although the modules focus heavily on criminal and family court practice, there is a significant focus on the dynamics race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity in communication, transaction, and negotiation between counsel, between counsel and justices, and between counsel and clients. 

In a one-hour DIVERSITY + INCLUSION module, practitioners will be informed about the impact of race, gender, and sexuality dynamics in practice, particularly in court.  Practitioners will reflect on whether common or routine dynamics in the courthouse or in their offices actually perpetuate or sustain an intersectional form of racial injustice (which may include and be complicated by misogyny, homophobia, or transphobia).

Course Faculty: Dominique Day, J.D. (see attached bio)