The Law Society of Upper Canada is offering a program to present the findings from its consultation paper, Developing Strategies for Change: Addressing Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees. The Law Society is inviting attendees of the program to provide feedback to the questions posed in the paper. The program is being offered in various cities across Ontario. Please scroll down to read below, or click on this link to see other confirmed dates, times and locations outside of Toronto: http://lsuc.on.ca/racialized-licensees/
For those who reside in Toronto, we encourage you to attend the session scheduled forThursday January 15, 2015, 4:30pm-6:30pm at the Donald Lamont Learning Centre in Osgoode Hall (130 Queen Street West). This session is available as a simultaneous webcast.
If you are not available to attend the January 15th program in Toronto, the Law Society has also scheduled a second date for Wednesday February 25, 2015, 4:00pm-6:00pm at the Donald Lamont Learning Centre in Osgoode Hall (130 Queen Street West). This session is also available as a webcast.
We strongly urge you to consider submitting input to the Law Society during this consultation process. The Law Society has advised that this feedback will help determine its next steps, as well as its final recommendations to Convocation regarding the challenges faced by racialized licensees in the legal profession of Ontario.
FACL has long been committed to raising awareness and promoting diversity in the legal profession and judiciary in Canada. Please visit our Media page on our website to view all of FACL’s previous submissions about this topic.
Developing Strategies for Change: Addressing Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees
Join the Law Society, members of the leg?al profession, and the public for a learning and consultation program discussi?ng the Law Society’s Developing Strategies for Change: Addressing Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees consultation paper.
Offered in January and February 2015, this program will provide a brief overview of the findings of the Developing Strategies for Change: Addressing Challenges ?Faced by Racialized Licensees consultation paper, along with an opportunity for attendees to offer feedback on the questions posed in the paper.
The program will also include an overview of the lawyer and paralegal rules on discrimination and harassment and a discussion of the importance of these rules to overall practice management – including employment practices and relationships to clients.
The program contains 1 Professionalism Hour
Light refreshments will be served.
Program Schedule:
JANUARY
Peel Region
January 12, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
The Honourable William G. Davis Centre for Families (in the Training Centre)
60 West Drive, Brampton
Toronto
January 15, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Donald Lamont Learning Centre, Osgoode Hall
130 Queen Street West, Toronto
(also available via simultaneous webcast)
Windsor
January 20, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Location to be confirmed
London
January 26, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Location be confirmed
York Region
January 27, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Location to be confirmed
Sudbury
January 30, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Location to be confirmed
FEBRUARY
Durham Region
February 3, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Location to be confirmed
Ottawa
February 5, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Location to be confirmed
Thunder Bay
February 23, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Location to be confirmed
Hamilton
February 24, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Location to be confirmed
Toronto
February 25, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Donald Lamont Learning Centre, Osgoode Hall
130 Queen Street West, Toronto
(also available via simultaneous webcast)
RSVP: For additional information and to register for a program in your area, please visitwww.lsuc.on.ca/racialized-
Input received during the consultation process will help the Law Society’s Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group determine its next steps, as well as its final recommendations to Convocation.
Written submissions about the consultation paper are also welcome and should be submitted by March 1, 2015, to:
Josée Bouchard, Director, Equity Initiatives
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2N6
jbouchar@lsuc.on.ca
Tel: 416-947-3984 or 1-800-668-7380 ext. 3984
Fax: 416-947-3983?