[blindlaw] NABL Annual Meeting Agenda

[Scott C. LaBarre]

AGENDA

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLIND LAWYERS

2015 ANNUAL MEETING

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Salon 19, Level 2   

Rosen Centre Hotel

Orlando, Florida

 

1:00 pm.    WELCOME AND MEETING LOGISTICS

 

Scott C. LaBarre, President, NABL, Denver, Colorado

 

1:05 p.m.  RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE AS A BLIND CANDIDATE: 

Legal and Other Barriers

 

Parnell Diggs, Board Member, NABL, President, NFB South Carolina, Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina

 

1:30 pm     NFB LITIGATION: HELPING US LIVE THE LIVES WE WANT

 

Mehgan Sidhu, General Counsel, National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore,
Maryland

 

2:00 pm     BLIND LAWYERS IN THE ORGANIZED AND SPECIALIZED BAR MOVEMENT

 

Scott C. LaBarre, Moderator, ABA Standing Committee on Membership, Member,
Governing Council, Solo, Small Firm, and General Practice Division of the
ABA  Denver, Colorado; Charles S. Brown, ABA Standing Committee on Election
Law, Member, Governing Council, Senior Lawyers Division of the ABA; Patti
Chang, Immediate Past Chair, Illinois Bar Association Administrative Law
Section, Member, Illinois Bar Disability Law Committee, Chicago, Illinois;
Deepa Goraya, Executive Board Member, National Association of Attorneys with
Disabilities, Washington, DC; Katherine Carrol, Executive Board Member,
National Association of Attorneys With Disabilities, Long Island, New York

 

2:50           BREAK

 

3:00 pm     DOES THE ADA APPLY TO RIDESHARING AND OTHER TRANSPORTATION
SERVICES?

 

Timothy R. Elder, Second Vice President, NABL, TRE Legal, Fremont,
California; Michael Nunez, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld, LLP, San Francisco,
California

 

3:30 pm     EMPLOYMENT OF LAWYERS WITH DISABILITIES: Myth and Reality

 

Matthias L. Niska, Associate, Brown Goldstein, and Levy, Baltimore, Maryland

 

4:00 pm     REFORM NEEDED TO THE ADA AND OTHER LAWS BY THE TIME THE ADA
REACHES ITS GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

 

Dr. Marc Maurer, Director of Legal Policy, Immediate Past President,
National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, Maryland; Daniel F. Goldstein,
Partner, Brown Goldstein and Levy, Baltimore, Maryland; Matthias L. Niska,
Associate, Brown Goldstein, and Levy, Baltimore, Maryland

 

4:50   pm   GENERAL BUSINESS AND ELECTIONS OF NABL BOARD

    

5:00 p.m.   ADJOURN

 

5:00 to 6:30 p.m.  ANNUAL NABL RECEPTION (ticketed event)

Join us for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as we celebrate the progress of our
organization.  Network and meet your fellow blind attorneys and legal
professionals. 

  Salon 9, level 2.