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Strengthening Our Legal Community by Understanding Our Cultural Differences

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https://www.cccba.org/event-info/?eventid=15088

The CCCBA DEI Committee,
The Contra Costa Superior Court Diversity and Outreach Committee
and California Women Lawyers present...

“Strengthening Our Legal Community by Understanding Our Cultural Differences”

A Cultural Competency Presentation

This program will illustrate, through panelist vignettes, certain observations by diverse practitioners and judges. It will educate attorneys and judges about a certain aspect of community/ethnicity/ identity that are not commonly known and explain practices that people currently do now which is seen as offensive or insensitive to a particular community. There will be time for questions after the presentations.

Vignettes will cover Filipino, African American, Latinx, LGBT, Chinese, Middle Eastern, Jewish and Person Living with a Disability perspectives.

Speakers

Benisa Berry - Berry Mediation and Law
Mika Domingo - M.S. Domingo Law Group
Julie Ann Giammona - Ferber Law, P.C.
Judge David Goldstein - Contra Costa County Superior Court
Mary Grace Guzman - Guzman Legal Solutions
Mona Nia - The Bray Law Firm
Judge Benjamin T. Reyes, II - Contra Costa County Superior Court
Summer Cyd Selleck - S.C. Selleck Law
Celine Mui Simon - Strata Legal

Zoom Information - You will receive a Your Event Confirmation from staff email followed an Event Zoom Invitation email with your zoom  meeting/webinar link.  

The Contra Costa County Bar Association certifies that this activity has been approved for 1 hour of EOB MCLE credit by the State Bar of California, Provider #393.

Photographs and/or video will be taken or recorded at this event. By taking part in this event, you consent to having your image recorded  or captured by official photographers and videographers for the Contra Costa County Bar Association (CCCBA). You agree not to personally record, photograph or otherwise capture any video or audio of this seminar. You also grant the CCCBA full rights to use the resulting images for publicity or other purposes to help promote the CCCBA, without any compensation to you. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use images in the CCCBA’s printed and online publicity, website, social media, and press releases. If you do not wish to be photographed at this event, please inform a CCCBA event organizer.

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