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Workplace Diversity after Students for Fair Admissions: A Chat with EEOC Chair Burrows
Thursday, September 05, 2024, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
Category: MWELA Events

Workplace Diversity after Students for Fair Admissions: A Chat with EEOC Chair Burrows

A free webinar presented by the MWELA Bench Bar Committee, and co-sponsored by the Bar Association of the District of ColumbiaNational Bar Association and the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

Join us for a virtual discussion with panelists Chair Charlotte Burrows (EEOC Chair), Judge Todd Edelman (D.C. Superior Court Judge), Maya Jefferson (Associate Attorney at Gilbert Employment Law) and Jocelyn Cuttino (Partner at Morgan Lewis and founding member of the firm’s multidisciplinary workplace culture consulting team) on the latest employment cases following SCOTUS’ decisions in the affirmative action cases, SFFA v. UNC Chapel-Hill and SFFA v. Harvard. We will unpack recent 4th and 10th Circuit cases, among others, hear from Chair Burrows on the impact of these decisions and the Commissions’ response, and then discuss strategies to respond to relevant legal arguments meant to hamper diversity initiatives in the workplace.

This event does not offer CLE credit. Registrants will receive Zoom login details via email one day prior to the event.

12:00 PM - Opening remarks

 Speakers:

 

Wiley Adams
President-Elect
National Bar Association

 

 

Rawle Andrews Jr.
President
Bar Association of the District of Columbia 

 

Mary Blatch
President 
Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia


12:05 PM - Panel Presentation

 
Speakers:

 Burrows

Charlotte A. Burrows
Chair
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

 
   
 

Hon. Todd Edelman
D.C. Superior Court

 

   
   

Jocelyn R. Cuttino
Morgan Lewis 

   

Maya Jefferson
Gilbert Employment Law, P.C.

  Moderator:
 

R. Scott Oswald,
Managing Principal

The Employment Law Group, P.C. 

This webinar will be conducted over Zoom.

Please Note:
- Advanced registration is required to receive the Zoom link.
- CLE is not offered for this program. Recording is not permitted.

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