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2017 Litigation Support Survey Results
Date: July 11, 2017
Cost: $16.00
Location: Harper Grey LLP
Overview:
The 2017 Litigation Support survey results are in! Actually they’ve been in for a bit!
Please join us as we review the results! From our first survey to our latest – what has changed, what has stayed the same and what do we see on the horizon?
Ann Halkett of Alexander Holburn has graciously volunteered once again to moderate the discussion around the results.
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Facilities and Services Management - July Meeting - tour of McCarthy Tétrault
Date: July 19, 2017
Cost: $22.00
Location: McCarthy Tétrault
Overview:
Katy Davis of McCarthy Tétrault has graciously agreed to take us on a tour of their innovative new offices!
Lunch will be served at 12pm promptly. Depending on numbers we may be split into 2 groups for touring the space.
Cost is $22 per person. Please bring your cheque to the event, made out to BCLMA.
See you there!
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Facilities and Services Management - Sept. meeting - Engagement and Motivation part 2
Date: September 20, 2017
Cost: $0.00
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Join us for part 2 of our discussion with Diane Cronk on the topic of employee engagement. Details to be announced closer to the date.
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Marketing Subsection: So Many Media Channels - So Little Time!
Date: September 25, 2017
Cost: $0.00
Location: Harper Grey LLP
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Gray Area Thinking - inclusivity training
Date: October 04, 2017
Cost: $95.00 - $115.00
Location: Terminal City Club
Overview:
Presentation Description: All humans habitually categorize and group others who are “different” from “us,” which often lends to black and white thinking, as in “good” versus “bad” or “native” versus “immigrant” and a host of other isolating labels. With this inclusivity presentation, Ellen (Ellie) Krug offers a toolset—Gray Area Thinking™—for interacting with diverse humans in a mindful and compassionate way. Attendees will appreciate and value how it’s necessary to consciously engage in Gray Area Thinking™ in their daily activities. Doing so will lead to a more inclusive life.
Gray Area Thinking™ is a simple three-part toolset for interacting with diverse humans: (1) awareness of another human’s vulnerability or suffering; (2) risk-taking to alleviate or lesson that vulnerability or suffering; and (3) compassion and kindness for both self and others.
Why this Presentation Works: Most diversity and inclusion trainings address unconscious bias by educating audience members about neurobiology and the human tendency to deny being biased. However, audience members often aren’t given easy-to- understand “tools” to employ in their day-to-day interactions with diverse humans. Moreover, by using the word “bias” in standard D&I trainings, there’s the risk of the audience member feeling judged.
With Gray Area Thinking™, Ellie utilizes the phrase “grouping and labeling” to avoid any judging connotations; indeed, humans are wired to “group” and “label” other humans—it’s part of our evolutionary DNA and how we’ve been able to get to where we are today as a species. Ellie simply reminds the audience of this and other things (such as that we are a tribal society). At the same time, citing various studies, she also reminds that humans are hard-wired for empathy; it’s just that most of us don’t know how to employ that empathy due to fear or habituation.
By utilizing memorable training tools (the “Identity Game,” the Darnell Barton video, “The Four Commonalities,” Ellie’s voice and story, etc.—see below for all of this), this presentation “sticks” particularly well with listeners. This presentation also provides an easily understood/remembered toolset that can be utilized by audience members as soon as they walk out of the training room.
Guest Speaker:
Ellen (Ellie) Krug, while an Iowa civil trial attorney with 100+ trials, transitioned from male to female in 2009. She later became one of the few attorneys nationally to try jury cases in separate genders. From 2011 to 2016, she served as the executive director of Call for Justice, LLC, a Minneapolis legal nonprofit that was conferred an American Bar Association award for innovatively increasing legal access.
The author of Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change (2013), Ellie currently speaks, trains and consults on diversity and inclusion topics to governmental entities, court systems, corporations, law firms, social service organizations, and colleges and universities.
In 2016, Advocate Magazine named Ellie one of “25 Legal Advocates Fighting for Trans Rights.” Ellie views herself as an “Inclusionist” and founded an inclusion-oriented consulting company, Human Inspiration Works, LLC, in late 2016.
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Marketing Subsection: Demonstrating ROI - By Measuring What Exactly?
Date: October 30, 2017
Cost: $0.00
Location: Harper Grey LLP
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Annual Managing Partners' Speaker Event
Date: November 01, 2017
Cost: $0.00 - $100.00
Location: Terminal City Club
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“Law Firms in Transition 2017 / Trends in the Profession,” based on Altman Weil’s 2017 Law Firms in Transition Survey
Guest Speaker: Eric Seeger
Eric A. Seeger is a principal of Altman Weil, Inc. He works with law firms in the areas of strategy formulation and execution, practice group planning and training, merger search, and organizational issues including administrative audits and succession planning.
Mr. Seeger directs Altman Weil’s market research department. He conducts client surveys and client interviews for law firms and market research projects for legal industry vendors. He is the co-author of Altman Weil’s highly-regarded annual industry survey, Law Firms in Transition.
For a more in depth biography please click on the link below.
http://www.altmanweil.com/seeger/
Co-Sponsored by BCLMA’s Premier Sponsor
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BCLMA Annual Winter Social
Date: November 23, 2017
Cost: $0.00
Location: Terminal City Club
Overview:
Save the date for our Annual Winter Social.
Generously Sponsored by
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Marketing Subsection: Lets Get Real About Differentiation
Date: November 27, 2017
Cost: $0.00
Location: Harper Grey LLP
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