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4.7

Diverse Clients: The New Attorney's Guide to Communication, Representation, and Analyses

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Credit Status Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 3.6 Total
Oregon CLE Approved 3 Total
OnDemand
2 hours 56 minutes
Robert Kasieta
With Robert J. Kasieta from Kasieta Legal Group, LLC
Recorded April 09, 2025.
Product ID 100392

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Overview

Discover Legal Advocacy Strategies for Marginalized Communities

Build culture competence and enhance your approaches to working with clients with diverse backgrounds! In this online seminar designed specifically for newly admitted attorneys, our faculty outline essential guidelines for working with clients from historically marginalized communities. From practical guidance for recognizing bias to techniques for practicing inclusion in client intake, don't miss this opportunity to enrich your knowledge. Register today!

  • Formulate strategies for combatting bias in client interactions.
  • Discover tips for communicating with clients with diverse backgrounds.
  • Demonstrate best practices for representing diverse clients effectively.
  • Analyze real cases and evaluate the effects of cultural differences on legal outcomes.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Addressing Bias in Interactions With Clients
  2. Communicating With Diverse Clients: Tips for Building Trust
  3. Representing Diverse Clients: Enhance Your Decision-Making Skills!
  4. Role of Cultural Differences in Legal Outcomes: Insights From Real Cases

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Product ID 100392

Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 3.6 Total
Oregon CLE Approved 3 Total
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Agenda

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  1. Addressing Bias in Interactions With Clients

    1. Forms of Bias: Age, Culture, Disability, Ethnicity, etc. 
    2. Ethical Rules Concerning Bias and Diversity
    3. Defining Diversity (With Stats on Attorney and Client Populations)
    4. Implicit Bias: What It Is and Tips for Recognizing and Mitigating Its Effects
    5. Putting Yourself in Someone Else's Shoes - Building Cultural Competence

  2. Communicating With Diverse Clients: Tips for Building Trust

  3. Representing Diverse Clients: Enhance Your Decision-Making Skills!

    1. At-Risk Populations in the Justice System (e.g. BIPOC Clients)
    2. Identifying and Addressing Systemic Barriers in Representation
    3. Preventing and Addressing Harassment and Discrimination
    4. Practicing Inclusion in Client Generation and Intake
    5. Fact-Finding Strategies for Effective Representation of Diverse Clients
    6. Top 5 Attorney Mistakes to Avoid

  4. Role of Cultural Differences in Legal Outcomes: Insights From Real Cases

Who Should Attend

This basic level online seminar is specifically designed for newly admitted attorneys. Paralegals may also benefit.

Speakers

Robert J Kasieta
Robert J.
Kasieta
Kasieta Legal Group, LLC
Speaker bio
Robert J Kasieta

Robert J. Kasieta

Kasieta Legal Group, LLC
Robert Kasieta

is the founder of Kasieta Legal Group, LLC in Madison, Wisconsin. He is a certified civil pre-trial and trial specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocates. Mr. Kasieta practices in civil litigation, with an emphasis on plaintiff personal injury and employment cases, as well as commercial litigation. He has written and taught extensively in the areas of trial practice, personal injury law and insurance law, and is an instructor of trial practice at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Mr. Kasieta is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh and Eleventh circuits, and all Wisconsin courts. He is a member of the Dane County Bar Association, State Bar of Wisconsin and the American Association for Justice. Mr. Kasieta earned his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from Northern Michigan University and his J.D. degree from Marquette University Law School.

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