Canadian Law Times reports
LAWPOD offers podcasts on mental health, legal tech, professionalism for in-house lawyers, as well as The Rise and Fall of Heenan Blaikie with the former firm’s former managing partner Norm Bacal. But the majority of the content is relevant to equality, diversity and inclusion.
All Ontario lawyers are required to complete three hours of EDI training by the end of 2020. While the legal profession is embedded with systemic bias and racism, there are many fighting to change that, says Lerner. LAWPOD’s objective was to tap the knowledge of those devoting their time and energy to work for progress, she says.
“We’re not the experts. But we want to give the industry experts a voice so that our industry and our profession can really start looking around the Bay Street law firm and say, ‘Hey, Where is the diversity in this law firm?’ Really changing the profession for the future,” she says.
LAWPOD’s EDI episodes include conversations with Gerald Chan, partner at Stockwoods LLP, Executive Director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association Michael Bryant, Annamaria Enenajor from Ruby Shiller Enenajor DiGiuseppe Barristers and Tanya ‘Toni’ De Mello, assistant dean of student programming, development and equity at Ryerson University Faculty of Law.
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