Minnesota Urban Debate League
Events
The Diversity Pipeline: Best practices and Challenges for the Legal Industry in Recruiting, Training, and retaining a Diverse Workforce
Presented by the Minnesota Urban Debate League and Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55454
Kennedy Hall Room 303
Thursday, June 13th, 2013
(Parking Permits will be issued prior to the event)
This event will be available by live webcast as well. Additional details forthcoming.
Featured Panelists
 The Honorable Michael J. Davis, Chief Judge, District of Minnesota |
 Valerie Jensen, Executive Director, Twin Cities Diversity in Practice |
 Jim Rowader, Vice President and General Counsel, Target Corporation |
 Alan Haynes, Director, University of Minnesota Law School Career Center |
 Dean Eyler, Principal, Gray Plant Mooty |
Schedule
8:15am Opening Remarks and Introductions (registration opens at 8am)
8:30am-10:30am: CLE Panel Discussion*
Recruiting, training, and retaining a diverse legal workforce presents a variety of challenges for
private practitioners, in-house counsel, academics, and other legal employers. Our prestigious
panel features participants from a variety of private, public, and corporate legal settings
experienced in opportunities and challenges facing legal employers. The panel will discuss prelaw school considerations, assumptions of public sector interest and tracking, grade pressures, clerkships, transfers, hiring challenges, and outreach opportunities.
Please register by Wednesday, June 12, by clicking below. Private Practice attorneys $100. Public interest attorneys, law clerks and students, $75.
Questions? Feel free to e-mail Amy Cram Helwich, Executive Director of the Urban Debate League, here.
*2.0 Elimination of Bias CLE Credits have been applied for, event code #179409