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CLE for Tenant Advocates: Bias, Blinders and Blunders: Building Cross-Cultural Competency in Lawyering + Tenants Fight Back! Integrating NYC Anti-Harassment Laws Into Your Practice

Friday October 26
2018

  • By: Brooklyn Tenant Lawyers Network
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Time Zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada)
  • CLE Credit
  • Location:
    CUNY School of Law
    2 Court Square
    Long Island City, NY
  • Contact:
    Brooklyn Tenant Lawyers Network

Join the BTLN for this two-part diversity, ethics and skills CLE* event! Blindness, Bias and Blunders: Building Cross-Cultural Competency in Lawyering will examine issues of identity, stereotyping and bias in lawyering and detail how practitioners can develop cross-cultural skills and avoid "blunders" and "blinders" in their work. Tenants Fight Back! Integrating NYC Anti-Harassment Laws In Your Practice, will outline the new NYC anti-harassment laws with practical guidelines on how to use them in both defensive and affirmative cases.

 

10 AM to 12:30PM - Blindness, Bias and Blunders: Building Cross-Cultural Competency in Lawyering

Professor Susan Bryant - CUNY School of Law

Pooja Kothari - Boundless Awareness

 

2:00-4:00 - Tenants Fight Back! Integrating NYC Anti-Harassment Laws into Your Practice

Samuel Chiera - Brooklyn Legal Services Corp. A

Alejandra Nasser - Flatbush Tenant Coalition

 

You must pre-register to obtain CLE Credit. Lunch will be served between CLEs.

 

BTLN Members: $50

Non-BTLN Members: $60

CUNY Law Alumni: $50

Students: $20

 

  • CLE Credit Comments: Blindness, Bias and Blunders: 1 Diversity, 1.5 Ethics
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