Description
Learn many concrete tips for biasfree writing and active proofreading.
In this presentation, we will discuss racial, gender, class, and identity bias in legal analysis and writing, including in our own analysis and writing, so we can gain skills to be more inclusive and culturally competent when crafting legal documents. First, we will examine how privilege and traditional legal writing styles foster bias and exclusion. Then, well analyze scholarship and litigation showing techniques to remove bias in legal analysis and legal documents. Finally, well review expressways to make positive changes by examining large and smallscale writing solutions.
Date: 2024-04-16 Start Time: 1:00 PM ET End Time: 2:05 PM ET
Learning Objectives
Intro to Implicit Bias and Privilege
• Race, Gender, Identity
• Ableism
• Bias, Intersectionality, and the Matrix Concept From Critical Legal Studies
Noticing Racial Bias in Case Law and Our Legal Writing
• Mccurry V. Kenco Logistics
• Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl
• Your Own Briefs and Articles
Noticing Gender and Identity Bias in Law and Legal Writing
• The Reasonable Man
• Michael H. V. Gerald D. and Statutes
• Bostock/Harris Funeral Homes and Examples to Emulate
Large-Scale Solutions to Avoid Bias in Our Writing
• Gaining Cultural Competency With Government and Nonprofit Sources
• Using George Orwells Rules for Legal Writing
• Letting Generative AI Help
Small-Scale Solutions to Avoid Bias in Our Writing
• Eliminating Passive Voice
• Limiting and Updating Pronouns
• Using Word Processors and Generative AI Proofing Tools
CLE (Please check the Detailed Credit Information page for states that have already been approved) ,Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.
Stephanie Williams-Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
