Affinity Bar Town Halls

The SJC Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being seeks to engage the Affinity Bar Associations in its efforts to enhance lawyer well-being in the Commonwealth. Per it’s July 2019 Steering Committee Report, one major theme was “[a] strong and on-going commitment to enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion in all our practices” and “crucial to our individual and collective well-being.” To that end, we will be hosting a series of Town Halls with each of the individual Affinity Bar Associations to learn more about particular challenges facing each of your communities and ideas you might have for what the SJC Standing Committee in partnership with your Associations could do to help.  The goal of these sessions is not for the Committee to tell the diverse lawyer populations of the Commonwealth what these challenges are or how we’re planning to respond, but for the Committee to really hear from Affinity Bar members about their own lived experiences and challenges, so that we are better equipped to ensure that the individual and collective well-being challenges faced by diverse populations are reflected in the Committee’s ongoing work to improve the lives of lawyers and legal professionals throughout the Commonwealth.

Registration is open to the communities below.

Massachusetts Black Women Attorneys, June 30 at 2pm

Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys, June 30 at 3:30pm, Registration: https://lnkd.in/dxnaT6z

Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association, July 1 at 3pm

Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association, July 9

Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts, TBA

South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston, September 9 at 5pm