Creating More Welcoming Workplaces for Nonbinary Individuals | Practical Steps Towards Gender Inclusion in the Legal Profession

Webinar Presented 3/28/24

Description: 

The panel serves as an introduction to Creating More Welcoming Workplaces, a guide for nonbinary legal professionals and their allies recently released by the Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic and Beyond Binary Legal in conjunction with the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association, the National Transgender Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.

Panelists share their experiences as nonbinary attorneys and discuss strategies for inclusion at the organizational and interpersonal level that can be implemented in any legal workplace.  Attendees will learn more about the experiences of nonbinary people in the legal workplace.  They will leave with specific strategies on how to intentionally include nonbinary employees on an interpersonal and organizational level. Nonbinary attendees will learn self-advocacy strategies they can bring back to their workplaces.

Moderator

• Andy Izenson, Senior Legal Director, Chosen Family Law Center

Panelists

• D Dangaran, Director of Gender Justice, Rights Behind Bars
• August Hieber: Senior Program Manager, Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts
• Rafael Langer-Osuna, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
• Rebekah Tobison Scherr, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

Sponsors

• The ABA Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 
• The Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic 
• Beyond Binary Legal 
• The National Association for Law Placement, Inc. (NALP)
• The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association 
• The National Trans Bar Association

Resources & Information:

• Nonbinary Guide:
  Creating More Welcoming Workplaces: Practical steps towards nonbinary inclusion in the Legal Profession; The Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic (HLAC)
  • PDF format
• Order No. S-1-AO-2024-00016:
  Use of Personal Pronouns and Designated Salutations in Court was issued on April 9, 2024, by the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico.

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