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Labor/Employment,
Civil Rights

Mar. 27, 2025

Implicit bias training checks the box, but not the behavior

Despite California's mandated implicit bias training, little progress has been made in addressing systemic discrimination affecting women and marginalized groups in our courtrooms.

Elana R. Levine

Trial Attorney
AlderLaw, P.C.

She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Southwestern Law School. Licensed since 2004, Levine has devoted her practice to employment and consumer law, including individual, representative and class litigation in state and federal courts.

Implicit bias training checks the box, but not the behavior
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Nearly six years after publishing an article on my personal experience with gender bias as a female litigator, I received a poignant reminder that the challenges facing female litigators remain disturbingly unchanged.

When a colleague reached out to me recently in response to the article I had written years ago, her message was both a testament to the enduring relevance of the piece an...

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