Upcoming WWFF Events
The Will Work For Food programs are presented primarily by and for attorneys, mediators and arbitrators. Each Thursday at 8am Pacific an amazing colleague joins us to give a webinar presentation about a timely topic. These programs are free. You can join us for all or one. We don’t ask you to pay for these invaluable webinars, instead we hope that you’ll make a donation of any size to your local food bank.
Thank you in advance for your generosity.
We’re frequently asked if Continuing Education Credits/Units are available. Will Work For Food’s “The New Possibilities Hour” presentations are not pre-approved for CE. However, if you’d like a Certificate of Attendance to self-submit an application to your chosen licensing organization, please email Natalie with your request at Natalie@WillWorkForFood.news with your complete name as well as the name and date of the program you attended.
The Four Cornerstones of Mediation™
The Four Cornerstones of Mediation™ is a social-emotional and culturally sensitive mediation methodology. I will discuss and explain the methodology in terms of mediation and also its application to everyday human interaction.
View from the C-Suite: When to Mediate, Best Mediation Practices and How to Select a Mediator
Tim Pratt will rely on his vast experience as a trial lawyer, mass tort litigation expert, and client to discuss how a CEO, CFO and General Counsel view issues such as mediating over litigating, the timing of mediation, who should attend on behalf of the company, what strategies maximize the chances of success and, of all the mediators out there, how to find the one who matches best the needs and interests of a Corporate client.
Implicit Bias and What to Do About It - Presented by Dean Richardson
Thursday, February 18
8:00am PST | 11:00am EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun.
Our special guest will be Dean Song Richardson. She will presenting on the topic of Implicit Bias and What To Do About It.
L. Song Richardson is the Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law with joint appointments in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and in the Department of Asian American Studies. She received her AB from Harvard College and her JD from Yale Law School. Her interdisciplinary research uses lessons from cognitive and social psychology to study decision-making and judgment in a variety of contexts. Her scholarship has been published by law journals at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Duke and Northwestern, among others. Her article, “Police Efficiency and the Fourth Amendment” was selected as a “Must Read” by the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. Her co-edited book, The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. She is a co-editor of Criminal Procedure, Cases and Materials published by West Academic Publishing. Currently, she is working on a book that examines the history of race in the U.S. and its implications for law and policy.
Dean Richardson’s legal career has included partnership at a boutique criminal law firm and work as a state and federal public defender in Seattle, Washington. She was also an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Immediately upon graduation from law school, Dean Richardson was a Skadden Arps Public Interest Fellow with the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles and the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Unit in Brooklyn, NY. A leading expert on implicit racial and gender bias, Richardson is frequently invited to speak to law firms, district attorney and public defender offices, police departments, universities, judges, bar associations, and private industry across the nation about the science of implicit bias and its influence on decisions, perceptions, and judgments. She also presents her work at academic symposia and non-academic legal conferences.
She has won numerous awards and recognitions, including the American Association of Law School’s Derrick Bell Award, which recognizes a faculty member’s extraordinary contributions to legal education through mentoring, teaching, and scholarship. She was recently named one of the Top Women Lawyers in California by The Daily Journal, one of the 100 Most Influential business and opinion shapers in Orange County, and one of the two most influential Korean Americans in OC.
If you don’t already have a favorite charity please consider using the links below to find a food bank near you:
· In the USA: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-how-to-help/#meals-and-food-support
· In Europe: https://www.eurofoodbank.org/
· In Africa: https://foodforallafrica.com/
· In Australia: https://www.foodbank.org.au/?state=au
· In Canada: https://www.foodbankscanada.ca/