Q&A With Weeya Baysah Young, President of the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago

[…] vital to your success. Subscribe here to get the Commission’s weekly news delivered to your inbox. Early Bird Registration Opens for 2025 Future Is Now: Legal Services Conference Q&A with Cook County Bar Association President Nicholas Cummings NALP Report Finds Slow Progress in ‘Fragile’ Pipeline of Diverse Talent in the Legal Profession   Weeya Bayash Young headshot

‘Leading Change: Illinois Innovations Series’ Highlights Mental Health Initiatives in Illinois Courts

[…] Staying up to date on issues impacting the legal profession is vital to your success. Subscribe here to get the Commission’s weekly news delivered to your inbox. New Lawyer Job Satisfaction is Generally High, NALP Survey Says Lawyers: How Are You, Really? How Courts Should Respond to Court Users with Serious Mental Illness   Illinois Supreme Court

Celebrating Hispanic Attorneys: A Q&A with HLAI President Jennifer Crespo

[…] is vital to your success. Subscribe here to get the Commission’s weekly news delivered to your inbox. Commission on Professionalism Launches New Statewide Initiative to Prevent Bullying in the Legal Profession Justice David Cerda: First Latino Judge in Illinois Little Progress for Black and Latina Lawyers at the Partner Level, According to NALP jennifer crespo hispanic attorneys

Meet the Black Women Leading Illinois Law Schools

[…] reflect and represent the communities they seek to serve and how leaders can shepherd and shape institutions through periods of unprecedented change. The power of pipelines While NALP’s 2022 Report on Diversity in U.S. Law Firms showed that Black women comprise just 0.94% of all partners, they are receiving substantially greater leadership opportunities in […]

Nominations are Open for the ABA’s Gambrell Professionalism Awards

[…] inbox. Commission on Professionalism Opens Registration for 2023 Future Is Now: Legal Services Conference Little Progress for Black and Latina Lawyers at the Partner Level, According to NALP Lawyer Spotlight: Michele M. Jochner Simply flat lay design winner or champion gold trophy cup on concrete stone grey background. Victory first place of competition. Winning […]

Meet Our DEI Manager Julia Roundtree Livingston—Educator, Advocate, and Community Leader

[…] inbox. Commission on Professionalism Opens Registration for 2023 Future Is Now: Legal Services Conference Little Progress for Black and Latina Lawyers at the Partner Level, According to NALP Commission on Professionalism and Commission on Access to Justice Partner to Lead Courthouse Professionalism Training in Markham, Ill. Julia Roundtree Livingston in first grade Julia Roundtree […]

What CLEs Illinois Lawyers Took in 2022

[…] how and where lawyers want to work, including tips for developing a culture that fosters well-being and DEI and maximizes the use of technology. The most recent NALP Report on Diversity in U.S. Law Firms shows some progress in areas when it comes to diversity but stagnation in many underrepresented groups. CLE providers could […]

Reimagining Law: Embracing the Power of ‘No’ (Part 2)

In this episode of Reimagining Law, we discuss the power of “no” with Lauren Tuckey, President of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI), and Katie Liss, Assistant Dean of Law Career Services and Executive Director of the Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center at DePaul University College of Law and founder and chair of the CBA’s Sexual Harassment Prevention Task Force.