[blindlaw] Document Review

Mon Apr 4 17:19:24 UTC 2016

Agreed. Many associates do doc review work and make excellent money at it. The fact that we as blind attorneys are barred from doing this work due to inaccessible software is a significant concern. 

Tai Tomasi, J.D.
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This is untrue. I am part of a litigation practice at a large firm where doc review is done in-house. The fact that doc review software is inaccessible directly harms my ability to meet my billable hour targets.

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From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Paul Wick via BlindLaw
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Chris and all,

Doc review is essentially the developed world version of Indian/Bangladeshi computer click work farms. If 100 sighted attorneys can easily be found to sit in a basement and click away at no cost to the employer why would it make any economic sense for them to spend any time making their software accessible to facilitate the hiring of one or two blind attorneys? It doesn't.

Paul

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> On Apr 4, 2016, at 6:45 AM, Marcos Rodrigues via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> So am I.
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>> On Apr 4, 2016, at 9:34 AM, Tai Tomasi via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Chris,
>>
>> I am very interested in such an effort.
>>
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>> Tai Tomasi, J.D.
>> Staff Attorney
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>> 400 East Court Ave., Ste. 300
>> Des Moines, Iowa 50309
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>> Stewart, Christopher K via BlindLaw
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>> While I haven't done doc review, I imagine that what you say is correct, and the platforms are very likely inaccessible. This is part of the larger issue that also includes accessible firm management software. I'm not sure what the solution is, however, other than blind lawyers starting a coordinated campaign to contact the various firm management companies.
>>
>> My issue with firm management software is that it is essentially a file management system with a calendar and billing mechanism built in.
>> There is no reason why these products cannot be designed accessibly.
>> If anyone is interested in arranging some sort of campaign to raise awareness, please let me know.
>>
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>> Best,
>> Chris
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>>> Good morning:
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>>> Has someone recently done document review?
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>>> Doing document review seems bo be a growing field among recent 
>>> graduate lawyers and from what I heard, most softwares used to do 
>>> doc review are inaccessible with screen readers and we, blind 
>>> lawyers, are being screened out of this lawyering skill.
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