I Think, Therefore I Am Biased-Spring 2025 Edition
Date: May 29, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $159.00
Non-Member Price: $199.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Diversity
Earn up to 3.3 credits, including 3.3 in Diversity! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Sean Carter, Esq.
- Humorist At Law, Mesa
The human brain is wired to recognize patterns and make generalizations. It is the core of our ability to understand the sciences, invent new technologies and even to create art and literature. We are so dependent on this skill that we will employ it even in situations where the information if faulty or incomplete. As a result, the human brain will often fill in the blanks, making assumptions to fit the missing pieces of the puzzle. Contrary to popular opinion, lawyers are human and just as susceptible to form biases and then to act upon them when dealing with clients, co-workers and others in the practice of law.
In this eye-opening program, legal humorist Sean Carter uses scientific studies, video demonstrations and personal anecdotes from his decade as a Black lawyer to illustrate how lawyers form racial, gender, and other biases, and how they are seldom the result of animus or hatred, but rather of our brain’s pattern recognition “firmware.” Furthermore, he demonstrates how these biases affect our decisions in hiring, evaluating and employing women and lawyers of color, communicating with clients, and making a myriad of other decisions.
Finally, Carter will provide actionable tips for how individuals and organizations can recognize their own biases and to negate their effects, so that we can make fairer, and better, decisions for our legal organizations and our clients.
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