How (Un)Ethical Are You? Overcoming Unconscious Bias
How (Un)ethical are you? Gain insight into unconscious bias and its significant influence in the work environment and your client interactions. Learn how to confront these biases in the legal field with practical strategies for change and expand your ethical awareness. WEB242N02AZ
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Justine Anderson, Senior Associate, Carrol & O’Dea Lawyers; President, Women Lawyers Association NSW
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm How (Un)Ethical Are You? Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Join Barrister, Leah Marrone as she discusses what Unconscious Bias is and how it affects us in both our workplaces and our clients in our legal advice and representation.
- Examine how gender pay gap in the profession can be in part overcome by addressing unconscious bias
- Receive practical strategies to help overcome unconscious biases, as Leah draws upon her own experience of utilising these strategies for structural change in the legal profession around sexual harassment and pay gap in particular
- Explore lessons that could be learnt from Leah’s experience of over a decade of advocacy in this area
Presented by Leah Marrone, Barrister, Flinders Chambers; Respect@Work Council member, Law Foundation member, Immediate Past President of Australian Women Lawyers Ltd
Presenters
Justine Anderson
Justine Anderson is a civil litigation lawyer focusing on medical litigation and her practice includes gynaecological and obstetric cases, wrongful birth, cases involving pulmonary embolism, sepsis, adverse surgical outcomes and coronial inquires. Justine is the President of the Women Lawyers Association of NSW. Involved since 2016, by 2019, she led a sub-committee called ‘Welcome to the Law’ aimed at law students and early career lawyers. She ran a suite of seminars on written and oral advocacy, court appearances, emotional resilience, mentoring, networking and business development to name a few. Justine is the outgoing Chair of the Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers Diversity Group which aims to advance diversity and inclusion within the firm. Prior to joining Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers she worked in a number pathology laboratories and private hospitals, providing her with a unique set of problem solving skills when approaching medical and other legal matters.
Leah Marrone
Leah Marrone is a Barrister and has been practising law for over 16 years, in a wide range of areas, including employment, discrimination, work health and safety, criminal law, workers compensation, and public law. She has a particular interest in gender equity and access to justice, and an extensive history in lobbying for law reform in areas which effect women, some examples include lobbying for the decriminalisation of sex work to ensure worker safety and in sexual harassment law, particularly in the lead up to the Respect at Work reforms. Leah is the immediate past President of Australian Women Lawyers Ltd. and past President of the Women Lawyer’s Association of SA Inc. and remains active in that network. Leah is a former member of the Equal Opportunity Committee of the Law Council of Australia where she worked extensively on the issue of addressing sexual harassment at work, and is a former member of the Premier’s Council for Women. Leah was appointed to the Law Foundation in 2022. Leah was also appointed to the Respect at Work Council in 2022. Leah has received the Law Society’s Mary Kitson Award (Gender Equity in Law) and has also been named on the South Australian Women’s Honour Roll. Leah is listed as a Recommended Barrister in Employment and Work Health and Safety by Doyle’s Guide.