[blindlaw] blind attorneys

[Sarah Clark]

I think a crucial element is whether a student utilizes the opportunity to 
take summer associate positions while in law school.  The blind lawyers that 
I know of (who were blind before law school) had jobs as summer associates, 
which led to job offers from those firms at the conclusion of the summer. 
Even if you do a summer job on a volunteer basis, as I know one person in 
particular did, if you show your worth during the summer, you will likely 
end up with a job offer at the end.  Of course, the quality of the law 
school you attend is a tremendous factor -- the better the law school, and 
the better your grades in that all important first year, the better the 
summer positions available.  My husband, who attended a top 5 law school, 
said that all students he knew of received offers of employment at the 
conclusion of their summer associate jobs, and if you didn't, it reflected 
poorly on you.

Sarah Clark





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Weisberg" <jimi-law at dc.rr.com>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] blind attorneys


>I have to distinguish, I'm getting back to Dave's comments below again now,
> between employed blind lawyers who lost sight AFTER they had been employed
> and developed a rep before going blind as being competent from those who 
> are
> blind and thus never given the opportunity to develop such a rep unless 
> they
> can do it on their own as I have.  I just don't count blind lawyers in my
> calculation if they lost their sight after they were established because 
> my
> point is NOT whether or not a blind person can do the work, I know as I 
> have
> been doing it for over ten years now.  My point is the effort for the
> credentials compared with the likelihood of a job offer means go for
> something else . . . that's all.  So I too would love the numbers on blind
> lawyers never offered employment compared against employed blind lawyers 
> who
> were blind prior to ever practicing!!  I'm betting close to 
> "astronomical."
> *smile*
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of mfhurley at optonline.net
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 7:29 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] blind attorneys
>
> Prospects for blind lawyers were not good in a great ecomony.  I agree 
> with
> Dennis' post wholeheartedly.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Andrews
> Date: Friday, November 19, 2010 5:26 am
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] blind attorneys
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
>
>> James:
>>
>> I would like to suggest that the unemployment rate for blind
>> persons
>> in most all, if not all fields of endeavor is low. While my
>> evidence
>> is anecdotal, I don't think that it is necessarily any worse for
>> blind lawyers. Over the years I have known a bunch of blind
>> lawyers,
>> who are working.
>>
>> From what I read, the prospect for all lawyers isn't that good
>> right
>> now, so it is hard to separate the blindness penalty from the
>> bad
>> economy penalty.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> At 05:55 PM 11/18/2010, you wrote:
>> >Based upon my experience, Berkeley grad, top tier law grad,
>> ZERO job offers
>> >despite NEVER not getting an interview, combined with the
>> extremely low
>> >numbers of blind attorneys I can't think of what there might be
>> to discuss.
>> >My advice to anyone with vision issues considering law as a
>> career is to not
>> >waste their time or money they have a greater chance statistically,
>> >probably, of getting hit by lightening on the way to law class
>> than ever
>> >getting an offer of employment. Now if you come from money, forget
>> >everything I have said and just open your own firm! THAT IS
>> THE WAY IT IS!
>> >But there are always EXCEPTIONS. I personally wouldn't want to
>> invest the
>> >time and money law school requires on the hopes I'll be an exception.
>>
>>
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