[blindlaw] 2010 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

[Blake, Lou Ann]

Registration Deadline is April 8, 2010

 

2010 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

 

Equality, Difference, and the Right to Live in the World

 

A Cross-Disability Symposium

 

April 15-16, 2010

at the

National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute

Baltimore, Maryland

 

Join many of the nation's leading disability rights advocates and
scholars in a cross-disability consideration of the concepts of equality
and difference as they relate to people with disabilities in

 

*        ADA/Rehabilitation Act

*        class actions & litigation issues

*        employment, 

*        education, 

*        medical treatment, and 

*        access to technology

 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

 

Tom Perez

United States Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights 

 

Tony Coelho, Chairman of the Board

American Association of People with Disabilities

 

With an expanded format to incorporate workshops, the 2010 symposium
will provide more time for discussion, collaboration, and networking
with lawyers and other advocates who represent clients with a broad
range of disabilities.

 

2010 plenary session speakers will be:

 

*	Adrienne Asch, Director, Center for Ethics, Yeshiva University
*	Dan Brock, Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical
School
*	Richard Brown, Chief Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals
*	David Ferleger, Esquire, Law Office of David Ferleger
*	Dan Goldstein, Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP
*	Andrew Imparato, President and CEO, American Association of
People with Disabilities
*	Leslie Seid Margolis, Managing Attorney, Education Unit,
Maryland Disability Law Center
*	Mark Weber, Vincent dePaul Professor of Law, DePaul University
College of Law

 

2010 workshop facilitators will be:

 

*	Charles Brown, Director, Volunteer Lawyers for the Blind,
American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults
*	Ira Burnim, Legal Director, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
*	Claudia Center, Senior Staff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society
Employment Law Center
*	Marc Charmatz, Senior Attorney, National Association of the Deaf
*	Robert Dinerstein, Professor of Law and Director of Clinical
Programs,  American University Washington College of Law
*	Eve Hill, Senior Vice President, Burton Blatt Institute
*	Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum, Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP
*	Christopher Kuczynski, Esquire, Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
*	Jennifer Mathis, Deputy Legal Director, Bazelon Center for
Mental Health Law
*	Ruby Moore, Executive Director, Georgia Advocacy Office, Inc.
*	Ari Ne'eman, President, Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
*	Steven Schwartz, Executive Director, Center for Public
Representation

 

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez and Tony Coelho,
Chairman of the Board for the American Association of People with
Disabilities, will be the keynote speakers.

 

Documentation for CLE credits will be provided.

 

Registration fee: $175

Student registration fee: $25

 

A limited number of scholarships to cover the registration fee will be
available to individuals with demonstrated financial need.

 

To learn more about the symposium and symposium sponsorship
opportunities, view the agenda, and register online, please visit
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Law_Symposium.asp
<http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Law_Symposium.asp> .  You may also download from
this Web site a registration form to mail or fax.  Hotel information is
also available on the symposium Web site.

 

For additional information, contact:

 

Lou Ann Blake, JD

Law Symposium Coordinator

Jacobus tenBroek Library

Jernigan Institute

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

200 East Wells Street

at Jernigan Place

Baltimore, Maryland 21230

Telephone: 410-659-9314, ext. 2221

E-mail: lblake at nfb.org