The Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association will hold its Annual Employment Law Seminar on January 24, 2024 from 1-5 p.m. with a reception to follow. This seminar will focus on hot topics and emerging issues affecting employer obligations and employee rights, such as the legal implications arising from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts in the workplace; how Artificial Intelligence is changing the workplace and practice of law, and the risks it poses regarding algorithmic discrimination; and the interplay of religious freedom and Title VII discrimination in the wake of a recent Supreme Court opinion.

Jonathan Eig, author of “King: A Life,” the widely acclaimed biography of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will appear in conversation with journalist Robert “Scoop” Jackson at Chicago’s downtown U.S. federal courthouse to discuss the first comprehensive biography of Dr. King in decades. The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois welcomes Messrs. Eig and Jackson as we celebrate the upcoming Martin Luther King Day holiday in partnership with the Federal Bar Association, Chicago Chapter. The New York Times described Eig’s book as “a very human, and quite humane, portrait” that is “worthy of its subject.”