Center for Excellence in Decision-Making

Please join us for this three-hour dual credit virtual CLE/webinar on Tuesday, April 6th from 3-6pm: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, featuring Jeffrey Robinson, Director of the Who We Are Project.

Register for this free CLE here:
https://www.memphisbar.org/?pg=events&evAction=showDetail&eid=97761&evSubAction=viewMonth&calmonth=202104

This program will challenge attendees to think about where America started as a country, where it is, and where we want it to end up. The webinar will expose how deeply encoded white supremacy and the oppression of African-Americans is in our nation’s history. The program will explore how legalized discrimination and state-sanctioned brutality, murder, dispossession, and disenfranchisement handicapped African- Americans’ ability to create and accumulate wealth and gain access to jobs, housing, education, and healthcare.

Please join us for this one hour virtual webinar on Tuesday, March 23 from Noon to 1:00 p.m.: Distinguished Women Leaders in Legal Academia

In recognition and honor of International Women’s Month, this free webinar will feature distinguished women in legal academia and demystify the world of academic legal careers by exploring strategies for success that were inspired by their own challenges and accomplishments. The panel discussion will be moderated by Katherine Schaffzin, the Dean of the University of Memphis law school.

This webinar is sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Decision-Making (CEDM). Attorneys who attend will get one hour of general CLE credit.

Register by clicking on the hyperlink in the flyer or by clicking on the following link:
https://www.memphisbar.org/?pg=events&evAction=showDetail&eid=97438&evSubAction=viewMonth&calmonth=202103

If you have any problems registering, contact Lauren Gooch at [email protected].

Fantastic upcoming speaker:

"Race and the U.S. Economy After Ratification of the U.S. Constitution"
Prof. Spencer Overton
Thursday, January 14, 2021
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

https://www.memphisbar.org/?pg=events&evAction=showDetail&eid=89919&evSubAction=viewMonth&calmonth=202101

Upcoming CLE and discussion hosted by CEDM and the MBA. Registration opens 7/15!

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Check out “LEFT OUT and LEFT BEHIND:
The Hurdles, Hassles, and Heartaches of Achieving Long-Term Legal Careers for Women of Color” a recent report by the American Bar Association.

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“A few local, socially conscious judges acknowledged these institutional problems long before they were commonly discussed at kitchen tables and around water coolers, and they began tackling these issues by leading an initiative known as the Center for Excellence in Decision-Making.

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Center for Excellence in Decision-Making updated their website address.