B.C. lawyers' association refuses to cancel 'damaging' women's fashion seminar
VANCOUVER -- More than two dozen young lawyers and articling students are urging the Canadian Bar Association to cancel a Vancouver-based seminar focussed on how women dress in the legal profession, but the group has rejected that request. Titled “Empowerment Through Presentation: Dressing with More Intention," the online seminar’s speakers include a lawyer who started a fashion line, a celebrity stylist, and a class action lawyer who pursued a sexual harassment case against the RCMP. “We understand that personal appearances are an important component of public-facing professio...
Source: bc.ctvnews.ca