[blindlaw] 2011 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

[Susan Kelly]

I can only speak for myself and other public agency attorneys whose
office funding sources are extremely tight, but here goes:

In our office, like many other government agencies at least in Arizona,
only in-state seminars which directly touch on our area of practice or
are required by the State Bar yearly CLE quota rules are reimbursed.
This includes travel costs and the ability to use work time, as opposed
to personal time (unpaid) or vacation time (limited).  I would therefore
have to pay the entire cost, from registration through travel expenses,
and be required to utilize vacation time.  As a public attorney, I can
neither truly afford that nor expect my family to forego vacation time
because of the fact that the seminar is across the country from here.
Nevertheless, I am interested in the subject matter and would love to
somehow participate, even if it is simply through the webinar format.
Advance notice does nothing to help the time / expense issue, which
could be greatly reduced by the use of modern technology. 

Just my two cents worth....

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Peter Donahue
Sent: Tuesday, 03 August, 2010 2:36 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] 2011 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

Hello Fred and everyone,

    With such a long lead time there's no reason why you can't make
plans 
now to attend the 2011 Jacobus TenBroek Disability Law Symposium in
person 
to avail yourself of all it has to offer. Perhaps this is one of the
reasons 
why the announcement was made now to allow those wishing to attend to
begin 
making their arrangements to be there in the flesh.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wright Lopez" <fwlopez at comcast.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] 2011 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium


With the long lead time for the 2011 Jacobus tenBroek Law Symposium I
wish 
to raise two issues:
First: Organizers of the important symposium should consider alternative

geographic sites for this annual legal conference.  Limiting the site
every 
year to the NFB Baltimore headquarters limits the ability of many to 
participate in the discussion and interact with attorneys and otehrs who
are 
advocates for blind and disabled.   It is rather ironic that a
conference 
named in honor of a long time professor of law at the University of 
California is never held in that state.  Perhaps for the 2012 or 1023 
symposium the conference could be held in California, Texas, Colorado or

another Western state.

Second:  Will the 2011 tenBroek Symposium be webcast or streamed so that

others unable to travel to Baltimore can fully participate?  In this
current 
technological age there is no valid excuse for not webcasting this
important 
event.

Thank you:   Fred W. Lopez, Member DC Bar


On Aug 2, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Blake, Lou Ann wrote:

> Jacobus tenBroe


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