Civil Rights and Minority Groups Joint Program: Panel:Critical Leadership, Accountability, and Justice Within Organizations | Joint Program Panel 2

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Session Type: Section Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: N/A

Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom 5

Floor: Lobby Level, North Tower

Lawyers and the organizations they lead have a duty to care for justice. This duty is important to accomplish justice, but also to justify the legitimacy of organizations and their lawyers. This duty requires that lawyers address and demonstrate progress toward social inequities, including problems of access, equity, discrimination, and under-representation of diverse constituencies. How do lawyers work for justice inside organizations? How can lawyers leverage their organizational roles and capabilities toward justice? How can lawyers hold their institutions accountable to act authentically to advance justice? What can leaders do to enhance and effectuate justice that is not performative?