[blindLaw] More Info about Tomorrow's NABL Meeting

[Scott C. LaBarre]

Greetings everyone!!

 

I hope everyone is having a great Convention thus far.  As you know,
tomorrow NABL holds its Annual Meeting as part of the NFB Convention.  It
will take place starting at 1:00 PM Eastern.  The agenda has been somewhat
revised, and I post the latest below.  The direct link to our meeting is:

 

https://zoom.us/j/93586180919

 

 

To register for the meeting, we are asking folks to pay their NABL dues
which are $25 for attorneys and $5 for those of you who are not attorneys.
Please go to our website:

 

www.blindlawyers.net <http://www.blindlawyers.net> 

 

Lastly, we are not charging for CLE materials this year, but we have a
plethora of materials for you.  You can go to the following Dropbox folder
and get it all.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9v1bgut8jxfdrw6/AAATRJ2upWxFGgeqkmLuHeHha?dl=1 

 

Please let me know if you have any questions, and I hope to see many of you
virtually tomorrow!!

 

Best,

Scott

 

slabarre at labarrelaw.com <mailto:slabarre at labarrelaw.com> 

 

AGENDA

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLIND LAWYERS

2021 ANNUAL MEETING

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Thursday, July 8, 2021

Anywhere and Everywhere

Zoom Meeting ID:  <https://zoom.us/j/93586180919> 935 8618 0919

 

Note:  All times are Eastern Daylight.

 

 

1:00 PM     WELCOME AND MEETING LOGISTICS

                    Scott C. LaBarre, President, NABL, Centennial, CO

 

1:05 PM     THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION: WHAT THE ORGANIZED BAR IS DOING
FOR YOU 

Patricia Lee Refo, President, American Bar Association, Phoenix, AZ

 

1:30 PM     AN UPDATE ON IMPLEMENTING THE MARRAKESH TREATY: 

A PRESENTATION FROM WIPO 

Michelle Woods, Director, Copyright Law Division, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland;
Monica Halil, Head, Accessible Books Consortium, WIPO, Geneva Switzerland

 

2:00 PM     NFB LEGAL PROGRAM LIGHTNING ROUNDS: A BRIEF YET THOROUGH
OVERVIEW OF NFB'S LEGAL ADVOCACY

Scott C. LaBarre, General Counsel, NFB, Centennial, CO; Valerie Yingling,
Legal Program Coordinator, NFB, Baltimore, MD; Timothy R. Elder, Founder,
TRE Legal, Freemont, CA; Albert Elia, TRE Legal, Seattle, WA; Eve L. Hill,
Sharon Krevor Weisbaum, Joseph B. Espo, Jessie Weber, Greg Care, Partners,
Brown, Goldstein and Levy, Baltimore, MD

 

3:15 PM     AN UPDATE FROM THE LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS COUNCIL

Leanne Shank, Senior Vice President for Legal and Corporate Affairs, General
Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, LSAC, Newtown, PA; Angela Winfield, Chief
Diversity Officer, LSAC, Newtown, PA 

 

3:30 PM     EXPLORING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE PRACTICE OF LAW

Timothy R. Elder, Second Vice President, NABL, Freemont, CA; Jake Heller,
CEO, Casetext, Palo Alto, CA    

 

3:50 PM     PRACTICE FORWARD: A REPORT FROM THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ON
THE FUTURE OF LAW PRACTICE DURING AND AFTER THE PANDEMIC

Laura Farber, Co-Chair, ABA Practice Forward Coordinating Group, Pasadena,
CA; William R. Bay, Co-Chair, ABA Practice Forward Coordinating Group, St.
Louis, MO

 

4:20 PM     THOMSON REUTERS NEEDS YOUR HELP

Monica Wegner, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Thomson Reuters,
Minneapolis, MN  

 

4:25 PM     NABL VIRTUAL RECEPTION AND SOCIAL HOUR                 

 

Even though we can't be together in person, let's gather virtually and share
some fellowship.  Sorry no bar or hors d'oeuvres will be provided by NABL
this year, but you can bring your own. 

 

5:00 PM     ADJOURN