Sentences with phrase «many racialized licensees»

It is critical that the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees not get lost in all this regulatory alphabet soup.

The Working Group on the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees has provided the path forward.

Before adopting new policy, Convocation must ensure that unintended negative consequences are minimized, and barriers facing racialized licensees actually will be diminished as a result.

: Reflections on the Law Society's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group Report

That is an approach that is only likely to alienate racialized licensees further, and create an environment where they feel that the legal community is hostile towards ameliorative programs.

There are even contemporary disputes over the amendment at Convocation which extended the EDI initiative beyond racialized licensees, which are arguments I also believe have some merit.

One point made by equity seeking groups to the Working Group was that not only is access to justice impeded by the systematic exclusion of racialized licensees in the province, but it also runs contrary to the public interest.

Hum adds it is «encouraging that so many people are engaged and are taking these challenges faced by racialized licensees seriously.»

Consider the countless resources put into The Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group over 4 years, all to come up with the conclusion that there is widespread discrimination by lawyers against other lawyers on the basis of race.

Forty percent (40 %) of racialized licensees identified their ethnic / racial identity as a barrier to entry to practice, while only 3 % of non-racialized licensees identified ethnic / racial identity as a barrier.

I think it is something that needs to be monitored further, and should be part of LSUC's strategy on racialized licensees.

Key informants, focus group participants and survey respondents identified racialization as a significant factor that shapes the experiences and career outcomes of racialized licensees.

The statement of principles has faced vocal opposition from some legal scholars and lawyers since it was introduced by the law society this fall as part of an initiative to combat the barriers faced by racialized licensees.

Racialized licensees were also more likely to have struggled to find an articling position or training placement.

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.

As co-chairman of the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees working group, Anand presented the group's final report to Convocation on Dec. 2, 2016 and obtained the approval of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

In the consultation process of the report, the law society heard from racialized licensees who provided examples of discrimination and harassment during articling and the first few years of practice.

This time, the focus is on the recently released Consultation Paper entitled Addressing Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees.

He says the survey reinforces what was learned in the report, which found racialized licensees faced widespread barriers in the legal profession.

The Law Society of Upper Canada is trying to bring more attention to issues of diversity and equity in the profession through a working group and reports such as Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees.

The Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group was established in 2012 to gather information and develop recommendations to address these challenges.

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.

It would, however, allow clients and colleagues to know that it is that lawyer's intention to do the bare minimum to support racialized licensees and other underrepresented groups in our profession.

On a smaller scale, the final report of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group includes a recommendation that the Law Society, every four years, develop and publish an inclusion index which would «include legal workplaces» assessments of their diversity and inclusion - related achievements and that would allow legal workplaces to demonstrate their performance and progress.»

As Co-Chair of the Equity and Aboriginal Issues Committee and Vice - Chair of the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees WG, together with my colleagues, I have led initiatives to strengthen our commitment to Aboriginal justice and to supporting the racialized bar.

Of particular note in this context is the decision in Law Society of Upper Canada v. Selwyn Milan McSween, which found explored the systemic disadvantages experienced by racialized licensees.

To address this, LSUC is undertaking a formal working group to Address Challenges faced by Racialized Licensees, culminating in a 2014 report.

As a racialized lawyer, the Law Society of Upper Canada's «Challenges Facing Racialized Licensees: Final Report» has given me and many other racialized lawyers a voice.

«I am not surprised that we have heard from a small but vocal segment of the legal profession and other commentators about the words I am proud to have drafted and insisted upon, and which passed after a healthy debate at Convocation,» says Anand, who is a co-chairman of the law society's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group.

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.

Seven pairs of focus groups with racialized licensees and one pair with non-racialized licensees across Ontario

The creation of these Statements, with the greatest respect to the Law Society's Racialized Licensees Working Group, is not sufficient.

That means that 19 % of racialized licensees and4.5 % of non-racialized licensees completed the survey.

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.»

The research apparently showed that «43 % of racialized licensees identified ethnic / racial identity as a barrier / challenge to advancement».

Background: In September 2017, Ontario lawyers were informed by the Law Society of Ontario that they were expected to comply with a set of strategies adopted by the Law Society to address barriers to admission and within the profession faced by racialized licensees and other equality seeking groups.

How serious should we believe the barriers and challenges to be when only19 % of the racialized licensees completed the survey and 57 % of that 19 % cohort said that «ethnic / racial identity» was not a barrier?

How Many Racialized Licensees Identified Barriers and Challenges?

And it is important to remember that 57 % of the racialized licensees who completed the survey did not identify «ethnic / racial identity as a barrier / challenge to advancement.»

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

Another of the association's submissions to the law society dealt with the regulator's report on issues faced by racialized licensees.

The materials also include first - person narrative accounts from 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.

The writer argues in his letter that (i) the evidence does not support the conclusion that there is systemic racism in the legal professions, (ii) the claim of systemic racism vilifies lawyers and paralegals by labelling them as racist, (iii) the 13 recommendations are a form of unauthorized social engineering, (iv) racism and bullying are just part of life and should be simply be endured and overcome by racialized licensees as others have done before them, (v) the true problem is economic class not race, (vi) white privilege is a ridiculous concept as it relates to white and racialized lawyers and (vii) racialized lawyers who join legal associations based on race or ethnic origin can not complain that they are not treated equally.

These questions form the basis of LSUC's consultation — it has invited written submissions until March 1, 2015 on the questions set out in the Consultation Paper and «welcome [s] additional ideas, initiatives or practices that may assist in addressing the challenges faced by racialized licensees.»

«The challenges faced by racialized licensees have an impact on the reputation of the legal professions, access to justice, and the quality of services provided,» the report states.

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.

And so the law society in Ontario conducted an inquiry into the status of racialized licensees, and discovered what many of us have been saying all along — there is a widespread and pervasive problem in the legal industry related to racialized lawyers.

Indeed, it's telling that the Racialized Licensee Working group report recommended, as necessary, amendments to the Rules to «reinforce» this obligation — I read that as a subtle admission that the obligation is not there.