[blindlaw] NABL Annual Meeting Agenda

[Dan Beitz]

I'm sorry I have to miss this.  However, I do have a suggestion for next year's agenda.  Somebody needs to do a presentation on the admission and use of photographic evidence by blind persons.  This is a very real problem that will come up regularly in most of our careers.  I failed to appreciate the significance of a picture in my file that was very persuasive to the judge.  I represented a corporate client who was sitting right there to witness my laps.  Fortunately, corporate counsel was understanding, and knew that I would fix this issue going forward.  After 23 years of litigating, this should not have happened, but it did because, among other lapses, I failed to get a second opinion on the contents and potential impact of the picture from a sighted colleague.  In short, I took allot for granted.  Anyone else think this is a good idea for next year?  I can't be the only blind attorney out there that has struggled with this issue at times.


Daniel K. Beitz
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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.

 

 

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