This is an interesting article about unconscious bias training and lawyers.
“Cindy-Ann Thomas, co-chair of Littler Mendelson’s employment and
diversity practice, has been giving unconscious bias trainings to
clients for nearly two decades. This year, she’s training the firm’s own
lawyers, and she’s preparing a little bit differently.
That’s because lawyers can be a tough audience, resistant to the idea that they might be behaving unfairly, according to Thomas.
“As attorneys, from 1L, it’s ingrained in us that we are there as
advocates of and champions for justice,” Thomas said. “So when we are
being taken to task for our biases, which are part of the human
condition for everybody, it feels like an attack on who we are and what
we stand for.”
“We link bias with being unethical,” she added. Thomas said the only
other groups she finds as difficult to teach as lawyers are medical
professionals and academics.”
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