Sentences with phrase «for racialized licensees»

Member, Access to Justice Committee, Paralegal Standing Committee, Priorities Planning Committee, Challenges for Racialized Licensees Working Group

Some suggest that we need time for racialized licensees to filter through the profession and soon the highest levels of our profession will reflect the diversity in our country.

Not exact matches

The group's mandate was to investigate the challenges faced by racialized licensees and consider strategies for enhanced inclusion at all career stages.

A consultation paper titled «Developing Strategies for Change: Addressing Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees» was presented to Convocation on Oct. 30, 2014, and it was followed by consultations throughout 2015.

This gave rise to the final report to Convocation in 2016, Working Together for Change: Strategies to Address Issues of Systemic Racism in the Legal Professions, which found that forty per cent of racialized licensees identified their ethnic / racial identity as a barrier to entry to practise, while 43 per cent cited their ethnic / racial identity as a barrier to advancement.

In 2013, Stratcom conducted an in - depth, multi-modal research project to understand the challenges facing racialized licensees in Ontario for the Law Society of Upper Canada.

In terms of the research design of the study, we are told that, «Insight into the experiences of the whole population is critical for contextualizing, and understanding, the experiences of racialized licensees in particular.»

Informants reported numerous incidents in which licensees were subjected to negative stereotypes, and made to work harder or suffer greater consequences for errors than non-hyphenated racialized colleagues.

Another strategy is the requirement that, for any legal workplace that has ten or more licensees (lawyers), the workplace must have a Human Rights and Diversity Policy that addresses fair recruitment, retention, and advancement of racialized persons and minorities.

«Discrimination: Overt discrimination and bias — often unconscious — is a feature of daily life for many, or most, racialized licensees.

Take, for example, the finding in the Consultation Paper that almost half of the racialized licensees surveyed «strongly or somewhat agreed» that they had struggled to find an articling position or training placement.

Is it impossible to infer that those patterns might be driven, for example, by choices and preferences for front line practice areas among «racialized» licensees?

For example, the Community Liaison Report provided to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Challenges Faced By Racialized Licensee Working Group reported, among other things, that:

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