Toronto Lawyers Association (TLA), Working Together, Remotely - Managing and Leading Through COVID and Beyond

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Date & Time

Jun 22, 2021 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Working Together, Remotely - Managing and Leading Through COVID and Beyond

Location

ZOOM-WEBINAR
https://zoom.us/
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1T3
Canada

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This organization has been approved as an Accredited Provider of Professionalism content by the Law Society of Ontario.

In this practical session, leading lawyers and expert law practice advisors share lessons learned and tips to date from our rapid shift to virtual practice, with a focus on how we can make our practices work better for ourselves, our teams and our clients. Speakers will address the ups and downs that lawyers and firms are experiencing in remote practice settings, and share tips and best practices on a range of practice and personal management topics including:

Managing people, teams and your clients remotely
Maintaining your values / culture while remote
Managing processes and leveraging your tech
Effectively setting boundaries within the firm and with clients.

The program is eligible for 1.5 hours of professionalism, and for LAWPRO’s $50 Risk Management Credit.

Speakers:

Hong Dao, Practice Management Attorney, Oregon State Bar

Hong Dao is a practice management attorney at the Professional Liability Fund. She provides confidential practice management assistance and education to attorneys to reduce their risk of malpractice exposure. Ms. Dao came to the United States from Vietnam with her family as boat refugees in the early 1980s. She grew up in Colorado, where she attended the University of Denver as an undergraduate, and then moved to Iowa to attend Drake University Law School, where she received her JD.

Before joining the PLF in 2014, Ms. Dao worked as a staff attorney at the Oregon Law Center, representing, advising, and advocating for clients in employment, housing, and consumer law matters, and presenting community education programs. Prior to that, she worked as a contractor with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon. She has been an adjunct instructor of business law at Portland Community College since 2012.

Ms. Dao is a member of the Oregon State Bar, Washington State Bar, American Bar Association, Oregon Women Lawyers, Multnomah Bar Association, and Oregon Asian Pacific American Bar Association. She is a 2014 recipient of the Oregon State Bar President’s Public Service Award.

Ms. Dao also has been active in the Asian Pacific American community in Oregon, having served on the board of directors for the Center for Intercultural Organizing (now called Unite Oregon) and the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO). She was also a graduate of the first cohort of the Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Institute (API-CLI).

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Kirsti Mathers McHenry, Lawyer and consultant, Mathers McHenry & Co

Kirsti has worked in diverse legal environments for the past 15 years. She has used her wide-ranging experience to develop expertise in management, strategy, organizational development, and evaluation. She began her legal career at a national full-service law firm, clerked for the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and then obtained a graduate degree in law from the University of Michigan.

Kirsti worked for almost a decade at Legal Aid Ontario, running projects and managing teams to deliver on key corporate priorities. Here, Kirsti developed project management, financial management, human resource, strategy, and evaluation skills. Her work included policy and research, stakeholder relations, financial modelling, acting as policy liaison for a significant IT build, training, workforce planning and modelling, evaluation, organizational development, and policy implementation.

She left LAO to take on a senior executive role at a nonprofit foundation, where she refined her management skills and gained significant expertise working with smaller organizations and seeing their challenges and opportunities. In this role, Kirsti built her expertise in human resource management, program and organizational development, change management, communication, and evaluation. Kirsti was a key driver in the development of diversity and inclusion plans and process improvements. She also developed and implemented a multi-year evaluation plan.

Kirsti taught human rights law at Queen’s University as a sessional professor and taught legal research as both a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto and as a sessional professor at Humber College.

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Karen Skinner, Co-Founder and CEO of Gimbal Canada

Juda Strawczynski, Director, practicePRO, LAWPRO

Program details

Tuesday, June 22, 2021
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
ZOOM - 2 step registration. You will receive the details to join in your confirmation email.

This program contains 1.5 hours of professionalism content.

Registration is Free!

Attendees can claim a $50 Risk Management Credit.

The views and opinion expressed by speakers are their own and may not represent the views and opinions of the Toronto Lawyers Association.

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