Events
California Lawyers Association
Legislative Day
Legislative Day provides an excellent opportunity to explore legislative issues that have an impact on all attorneys and their clients and to interact directly with decision makers from all three branches of government. This year’s Legislative Day will be virtual but we are planning to return to an in-person Legislative Day in 2022.
Pulitzer Prize Winner and Author Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns, and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
Intro to Documate for CLA Members
Easy but robust: Learn about Documate, a powerful document automation tool with client-facing features to automate your templates.
Wellness Wednesday: Neuroscience, Well-Being, and Ethics
Join this session to learn about the latest neuroscience behind sleep, and its impact on mental health, substance use, ethical behavior, and performance. Join us to learn the latest neuroscience behind trust and how to generate the moral molecule—oxytocin—to enhance ethical behavior, performance, joy (yes, there is a biochemical basis for joy), and better self-care practices.
Semicolons Are Useless, and Other Legal Writing Myths
You’re a good legal writer. But to be great, you need to focus on the details. That’s why the CLE Performer, Stuart Teicher, Esq. thinks that things like semi-colons are super critical. Join him as he explains how small elements take a lawyer’s writing skills to new levels. You’ll learn some tips that you could put into your legal writing repertoire right away!
Racial Equity Series: Anti-API Violence and Heightened Xenophobia and Racism
This program examines the recent wave of violence and attacks on the API community.
Be The Difference. Stop Asian Hate.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fPQerNaGSQiX3T9XvGFo9g
Webinar: Stress, Drink, Leave: An Examination of Gender-Specific Risk Factors for Mental Health Problems and Attrition Among Licensed Attorneys
In 2020, the California Lawyers Association and D.C. Bar participated in a first of its kind research project aimed at uncovering personal and workplace risk factors for mental health and substance use problems among practicing attorneys.
Black Stories: How Implicit Bias Serves to Impede Black Advancement in Law and Enterprise
Presented by the Alameda County Bar Association. Black professionals have a unique perspective in terms of the day-to-day grind of the criminal justice system, academics, and corporate life. First hand, they experience the denial and constant suppression of the black perspective, black political power, black wealth generation, and everything that constitutes black existential well-being and the African diaspora. Arguably, many of the problems and obstacles, which hinder the development of African-American professionals, are rooted in the U.S...
#WellbeingWeekInLaw: Moving Medicine & Law Forward in the 21st Century
Join us for one of the hottest topics in medicine and law - the implementation of plant-based diets for reversal of degenerative disease.
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