Being a Native Lawyer: Obstacles and Opportunities [CC]

Being a Native Lawyer: Obstacles and Opportunities [CC] — BIAS 90 min

Join our expert panel of Native American attorneys as they discuss barriers and opportunities facing Native American lawyers, including their organizations' efforts and their own personal experiences.

1.50 total credit hours including

General

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Approved

1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics

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Available for credit

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics

Status:

Available for credit

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2022

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics

Status:

Approved

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2021

1.50 total credit hours including

Professional Ethics

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Available for credit

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Elimination of Bias

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Approved

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

2.00 total credit hours including

General

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Approved

2.00 credit hours

Available until:

12/30/2022

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics

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Available for credit

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Enhanced Ethics

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Applied for

1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2022

1.50 total credit hours including

Elimination of Bias, Diversity and Inclusion

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Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

2.00 total credit hours including

Bias Elimination

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Self apply

2.00 credit hours

Available until:

12/23/2021

1.50 total credit hours including

Elimination of Bias, Diversity and Inclusion

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Applied for

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

General

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Applied for

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Professionalism

Status:

Approved

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics

Status:

Approved

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2022

1.50 total credit hours including

Legal Ethics/Professional Responsibility

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Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2025

1.50 total credit hours including

Diversity & Inclusion

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Approved

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2022

1.50 total credit hours including

General

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Applied for

1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

General

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Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2021

1.50 total credit hours including

General

Status:

Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Professionalism

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Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Elimination of Bias, Diversity and Inclusion

Status:

Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Elimination of Bias, Diversity and Inclusion

Status:

Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.80 total credit hours including

Elimination of Bias, Diversity and Inclusion

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Self apply

1.80 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Elimination of Bias

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1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2022

1.50 total credit hours including

General

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1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics and Professionalism

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Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Professional Responsibility

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Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2022

1.50 total credit hours including

General

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Approved

1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics/Professionalism

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1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.80 total credit hours including

General

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Reciprocity

1.80 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics/Professionalism

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1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2025

1.50 total credit hours including

Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias

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1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics/Professionalism

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

General

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

General

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Approved

1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Attorney Professional Conduct

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1.50 credit hours

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12/31/2020

2.00 total credit hours including

General

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2.00 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Professionalism (equality, diversity and inclusion)

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1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Access to Justice

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1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics

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Approved

1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2022

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics

Status:

Approved

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2022

1.50 total credit hours including

General

Status:

Available for credit

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics

Status:

Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Professional Responsibility

Status:

Applied for

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Elimination of Bias/Diversity and Inclusion

Status:

Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics/Professionalism

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Applied for

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Legal Ethics/Professional Responsibility

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Applied for

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2022

1.50 total credit hours including

Professionalism

Status:

Applied for

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Professionalism

Status:

Approved

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

General

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Applied for

1.50 credit hours

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10/30/2020

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics

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Self apply

1.50 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2025

1.80 total credit hours including

Ethics

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Applied for

1.80 credit hours

Available until:

06/23/2023

1.50 total credit hours including

Ethics

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Self apply

1.50 credit hours

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06/23/2023

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Closed Captioned. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognizes Indigenous people's right to fully participate in the political, legal, economic, social, and cultural life of the state. Yet Native Americans remain shockingly underrepresented in the legal field, beginning from law school and continuing through their careers at firms, public agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the judiciary. The distinction is particularly stark when it comes to leadership positions: a National Native American Bar Association 2015 study noted only three Native Americans have ever been appointed federal district court judges, only three ever appointed as U.S. Attorney, and only three have ever served as Dean as a law school. Native Americans face innumerable obstacles, but also notable opportunities, at every point in the career pipeline.

This begins long before law school, with encouraging Native children to pursue a legal profession from a young age, and continues with guiding prospective law students through the admissions process and ensuring they have the resources they need to succeed in law school. The professional community can make a difference by ensuring supportive workplaces that do not pigeonhole Native attorneys into stereotyped roles, and that supply meaningful professional development opportunities through mentors, sponsors, and challenging projects. All these efforts must encompass issues of representation, which necessarily include opportunities for advancement and achieving leadership positions. They must also address the implicit barriers to achievement, which challenge Native attorneys as both individuals and as a group. Even where Native Americans are successful, employers and professors often assume their practice areas of interest will be limited to federal Indian and tribal law.

Our expert panel will share their organizations' ongoing efforts as well as their personal experiences. Participants will face their own assumptions to gain a realistic understanding of the challenges Native American attorneys face, and opportunities for advancing Native American representation and success in the legal field. More importantly, non-Native participants will hear pragmatic actions they can take, in their own lives and practice, to be part of the solution, which will benefit the legal profession and our society as a whole.

Participants will:

• Gain greater understanding of the extent to which Native Americans are underrepresented in the legal profession and how this negatively impacts the field as a whole.

• Identify the barriers Native attorneys and prospective attorneys face in embarking on a legal career and succeeding in the profession.

• Non-Native participants gain greater sensitivity toward the obstacles and pressures their Native colleagues, students, and employees face. They will learn about tools they can use as allies in the workplace to assist Native American attorneys to succeed and grow in the profession, so they can take on more of the burden of breaking down these barriers.

• Identify and understand the factors influencing Native Americans’ motivations to attend law school, and the support systems—social, cultural, financial—needed to be successful in law school.

• Will be able to challenge assumptions about Native attorneys, including the widespread belief that Native American attorneys will, or should be, focused on practicing Indian and tribal law.

NOTE: This program aims to meet Elimination of Bias CLE credit, required in four states.

Speakers

Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Julia Burns Griffin, Kathlene M Rosier, Mary L Smith

Sponsors

Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources

Product Code

NR2006BNLOLC

Duration

90

Publication Date

6/24/2020 12:00:00 AM

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