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Below are some additional resources and links that may assist your law firm’s diversity and inclusion efforts:
- Canadian Bar Association – PracticeLink: Work-Life Balance Resources
- Canadian Bar Association – The CBA Equity and Diversity Guide and Resource Manual for Successful Law Firms and Legal Organizations (Ottawa, August 2007)
- Canadian Bar Association – It’s About Respect Facilitator’s Guide and videos (Ottawa, February 2007)
- Canadian Bar Association - RARE Finds Web Resources (compilation of diversity and inclusion web links as part of the CBA’s Retention, Advancement, Re-Entry project).
- The Canadian HR Reporter, Sarah Dobson - ROI on Diversity Lacking: Survey
- Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion - What Gets Measured Gets Done: Measuring the Return on Investment of Diversity and Inclusion
- Justicia Project (links below contain descriptions of the project aimed at the retention and advancement of women in private practice in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec):
- Justica Project (Law Society of Upper Canada's website)
- Law Society approves development of program to help women lawyers (Law Society of British Columbia's website)
- Phase I of the Justicia Project Approved (Law Society of Alberta's website)
- Projet Justicia (Barreau du Québec's website) (French only)
- Law Society of Alberta – 2012 Aboriginal Law Student Summer Program
- Law Society of Alberta – Model Equity Policies for Law Firms, and Equity and Diversity Initiatives
- Law Society of Manitoba – Equity (includes links to model policies and best practices)
- Law Society of Upper Canada - Equity Model Policies, Publications & Reports
- Law Society of British Columbia – Towards a More Representative Legal Profession: Better practices, better workplaces, better results (British Columbia, June 2012)
- Law Society of British Columbia – Equity and Diversity (description of initiatives, and links to reports and model policies)
- Diversity Institute – DiverseCity Counts 3 – A Snapshot of Diverse Leadership in the GTA 2011 (Toronto, Diversity Institute, Ryerson University, 2011) Section of Report entitled, “Leadership in the Legal Sector” begins at p.24.
- University of Toronto Faculty of Law – Internationally Trained Lawyers Program
- LEXPERT MAGAZINE - Measuring Up on Diversity in the Legal Profession, by Sandra Rubin
- LEXPERT MAGAZINE - The Diversity Business Imperative (July/August 2012)
- Deloitte – Deloitte’s annual Diversity report for 2013 (Toronto, Deloitte, 2013)
- Emploi-Québec and the Mouvement québécois de la qualité – Guide pratique de la gestion de la diversité interculturelle en emploi (Montréal, Groupe Conseil Continuum, 2005) (French only)
- Ministère de l'immigration et des communautés culturelles en collaboration avec Ministère de l'emploi et de la solidarité sociale, Ministère du développement économique, de l'innovation et de l'exportation – Diversité, Gestion, Compétitivité, Innovation, (Ministère de l’Immigration et des Communautés culturelles (Québec, Gouvernement du Québec, 2010) (French only)
- Conseil des relations interculturelles – Avis sur la prise en compte et la gestion de la diversité ethnoculturelle (Montréal, Gouvernement du Québec, 2007) (French only)
- Conseil des relations interculturelles – Propositions en vue de l’évaluation de la politique gouvernementale la diversité : une valeur ajoutée et du plan d’action afférent (Montréal, Gouvernement du Québec, 2011) (French only)
- Government of Quebec – Culture, Communication et Condition féminine (French only)
- Barreau du Québec – Équité et diversité au sein de l’Ordre (French only)
- US – Centre for Legal Inclusiveness (CLI), Beyond Diversity: Inclusiveness in the Legal Workplace – Resources
- US – “Introduction,” Beyond Diversity: Inclusiveness in the Legal Workplace (Denver, Colorado: Centre for Legal Inclusiveness, 2012)
- US – American Bar Association – Diversity in the Legal Profession: The Next Steps (Chicago, IL, American Bar Association, 2010) (see in particular “Recommendations for Law Firms” beginning at p.25)
- US – Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Readings in Diversity
- UK – Collecting, reporting and publishing diversity data