Climate Survey 2020

Emory Law does participate in diversity recruitment, including law fairs and events, and we offer application fee waivers for diverse students, including those who identity as LGBTQ+.

Our application includes the question: “Do you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer) community?”

With all positions, the efforts are directed through Emory University. The university automatically posts jobs to several hundred unique job boards positioned to attract diverse applicants. Additionally, faculty position diversity efforts are directed through faculty contact including specific affinity groups affiliated with a particular field of study.

From Emory Benefits Website:

Infertility

If you are trying to start a family and need treatment, Emory offers an expanded infertility benefit. Covered infertility benefits include advanced reproductive therapy (ART) at Aetna Institutes of Excellence only, including the Emory Reproductive Center. All infertility benefits are covered up to a combined lifetime maximum of $25,000.

Infertility expenses, therapy, and treatment (includes both Comprehensive [up to 6 ovulation inductions and insemination cycles] and ART services.  Combined medical and pharmacy maximum up to $25,000 per lifetime.

From Emory Healthcare Plan Summary Plan Description (POS):

Infertility Services Expenses

Even though not incurred for treatment of a disease or injury, covered medical expenses will include expenses incurred by a covered female for infertility.

The following infertility services expenses will be covered medical expenses:

• Ovulation induction with ovulatory stimulant drugs, subject to a maximum of six courses of treatment in a covered person’s lifetime; and • Advanced Reproductive Therapy (ART).

These expenses will be covered on the same basis as for disease.

A course of treatment is one cycle of treatment that corresponds to one ovulation attempt.

Infertility expenses, therapy, and treatment are covered at a combined medical and pharmacy lifetime maximum up to $25,000 (includes both Comprehensive [up to 6 ovulations and insemination] and Advanced Reproductive Technology services).  Pre-authorization may be required.

Not covered are charges for:

• Purchase of donor sperm or storage of sperm;  • Care of donor egg retrievals or transfers;  • Cryopreservation or storage of cryopreserved embryos; • The use of a gestational carrier for the female acting as the gestational carrier; and • Home ovulation prediction kits.

From Emory Benefits Website:

Adoption Reimbursement

If you are adopting a child, Emory University provides an Adoption Reimbursement Plan to eligible employees. This plan will reimburse you for qualified adoption expenses up to $5,000 per finalized adoption.

Paid Parental Leave

Emory University provides paid parental leave to eligible staff employees, librarians and post-doctoral fellows who experience the birth or adoption of a child.

Employee Eligibility

You are an eligible employee if you have completed one year of service and are a staff member, librarian or postdoctoral fellow who regularly works 20 hours or more per week.

An eligible employee does not include employees of Emory Healthcare, medical residents, students, faculty, leased employees within the meaning of §414(n) of the Code (including temporary employees), or any party not classified as an employee by Emory University.

Medical house staff have a separate parental leave policy and should contact the GME office for parental leave matters.

Faculty also have a separate parental leave policies and should contact their Dean’s office for parental leave matters.

Transgender Surgery Expenses Medically-necessary transgender surgery is a covered benefit. Extensive guidelines outlined by Aetna apply. Transgender Surgery Allowable Expenses are excluded for the following groups: Emory/Saint Joseph’s, Inc., Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta, Inc., and The Medical Group of Saint Joseph’s, LLC.

Answer:
Student Insurance Policy: https://www.aetnastudenthealth.com/schools/emory/pdbs1920.pdf

Student Insurance Policy: https://www.aetnastudenthealth.com/schools/emory/pdbs1920.pdf

Website: http://counseling.emory.edu/resources/index.html

At Emory University, individuals may use bathrooms that most closely align with their gender identity. For individuals not comfortable using multi-stall single gender restrooms, single-occupancy private restrooms are available throughout the university, including the law school and law library. A directory of these restrooms is available on the Emory University LGBT Life website.

At Emory University, individuals may use bathrooms that most closely align with their gender identity. For individuals not comfortable using multi-stall single gender restrooms, the Office of LGBT Life has compiled a list of single-stall or single-occupant bathrooms on campus.

– Equality at Emory
– Children’s Rights
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• Founded in 2018, Emory LGBTQ Legal Services (ELLS) exists to provide much-needed legal assistance to LGBTQ individuals in the Atlanta area. Atlanta is home to one of the largest LGBTQ communities in the US, exceeding that in New York City, with 4.2 percent of residents self-identifying. When attention turns to the city’s runaway and homeless youth population, that figure climbs even higher — to 28.2 percent self-identifying. Moreover, Georgia’s transgender population is the fourth-highest in the nation. ELLS will connects pro bono attorneys and volunteer law students with low-income LGBTQ clients who have legal needs that are not currently being addressed in our community.

• Emory Law operates a Professional Development Fund that allows students to attend conferences or seminars. This fund allots each student who applies up to 200 dollars for travel reimbursements or registration fees for their conference. While this fund is not specific to LGBTQ+ communities, it does include this area of interest. Students have attended the Lambda Legal national conferences in the past.

Diversity training for the Emory Law students happens during the first year in law school. This curriculum includes diversity training during orientation and then again in January for the spring semester. The Emory Law faculty and staff must complete diversity training when they are hired and are required to follow all policies as it relates to diversity including any changes or updates.