Fall Section Meeting<\/a>, which is set for Oct. 2 to 4 in Ithaca.<\/p>\nNeurodiversity, unionization of student workers, higher education, and cannabis legislation are all potential panel topics while a trip through America\u2019s first wine trail, the Cayuga Wine Trail, and a children-focused tour of the Museum of the Earth are among the scheduled social activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sometimes forget that we have all kinds of attorneys who are in all different phases in life, and so sometimes if we only focus on the more senior attorneys, then we might miss out on the attorneys who are sort of new as parents, and maybe for them, they need to make this into a family vacation. And so, I was really thinking about making sure we were promoting and doing different activities that are apart from the meeting,\u201d Titus said.<\/p>\n
Titus has also reached out to Cornell University\u2019s Industrial and Labor Relations School and the Cornell Law School to ensure that students are attending and socially interacting with section members so they may see the value of a career in labor and employment law.<\/p>\n
Student engagement is also a key component of revising the section\u2019s mentorship program at Annual Conference in New York City.<\/p>\n
The mentorship program, which was interrupted during the pandemic, holds a personal meaning for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been a product of a mentorship program in both the labor and employment and the dispute resolution sections, so I\u2019m a big advocate for it. We already have a proposal. We just need to finalize some things, but ideally once we match people, I would like to have something in person, primarily around Annual Conference where people have the chance to interact in person,\u201d Titus said.<\/p>\n
Titus is collaborating with professors at New York University School of Law and the CUNY School of Law so that section members can discuss their careers as labor and employment attorneys directly with students.<\/p>\n
She is also aiming to partner with the Dispute Resolution Section on programming that would encourage students to start thinking about mediation and arbitration earlier in their career.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to start thinking about mediation and arbitration early on, although you may not really begin practicing in that area until later in your career. Nevertheless, there is a lack of diversity around neutrals and a lack of law students being exposed to that aspect of law so we\u2019re trying to address that,\u201d Titus said.<\/p>\n
Finally, the Young Lawyers Section is another group she is aiming to collaborate with after they co-hosted a successful program this spring.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re new to a firm, the one thing you are going to have to be is an employee first, and so one of those things that you need to understand is how to navigate firm life, and the program we did on that was very successful. Also, one of the other things that Marcella (Young Lawyers Section Marcella Jayne) was concerned about was how do you voluntarily leave a firm in a way that doesn\u2019t damage your reputation and so we want to continue to talk about that,\u201d Titus said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, there is a lot going on. It\u2019ll be a good year. What I do know is it\u2019s going to go by fast because of the level of engagement that I need to have to ensure all these things are happening while at the same paying attention to what my leadership team is doing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labor and Employment Law Section Chair Wants To Cultivate Future Leaders 8.5.2026 By David Alexander Community and cultivate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-315006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Community and cultivate are two of Labor and Employment Law Section<\/a> Chair Iyana Titus\u2019 favorite words. That helps explain why nurturing new leaders and developing a more diverse section membership are among her goals for the upcoming year.<\/p>\n![\"House](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Guardianship_600x90_150th.png\")
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