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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.»

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.»

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.

The origin of the obligation is the adoption of Recommendation 3 (1) in the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group's Final Report.

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