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Implicit Bias Training for Legal Services Attorneys: Basic Concepts

This course will highlight basic concepts in understanding implicit bias, particularly in the legal services context. The more we’re aware of our implicit biases and how they automatically influence our decision-making, the more we can check ourselves and make more conscious decisions that aren’t based on bias. 

For those of us who practice poverty law, one of our goals has to be to seek to not only economic justice for our clients, but racial justice and equity and in to do that we must understand implicit bias and be cognizant of our own biases.

 

  • CLE Credits
    Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias: 1.00
  • Format
    E-Learning
  • Practice Area(s)
    Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    Veronica Cook (Speaker)

    Veronica J. Cook is the Deputy Project Director at Queens Legal Services, a program of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC). Veronica first joined LSNYC in 2014 as a housing attorney at Brooklyn Legal Services, then held the position of senior staff attorney in LSNYC’s Civil Rights Justice Initiative before moving to the Queens office as Director of Litigation. She was promoted to the position of Deputy Director in 2023. Prior to joining LSNYC, Veronica held several other legal positions, including as a federal district court clerk and an associate attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where she was involved in fair housing and economic justice work. She has also worked as a consultant and presenter on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and as a peer reviewer for other civil legal services providers. Veronica received her A.B. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004 and her J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 2007, cum laude.