[blindLaw] Client Interviews and Search Light

[Sanho Steele-Louchart]

Julie,

To your first point, you could do an audio interview and use Audacity
or Reaper to get the same effect without encountering inaccessible
video editing software. It could also be a useful demonstration of our
ability to notice vocal cues and other unconscious signals.

To your second, client interviewing usually takes up a third to half
of my workday. It's one of my favorite things about being an attorney.
I've had a couple of clients who wanted to know how I accessed
documents, labeled evidence, etcetera, but they came around when I
gave them straightforward answers. The small amount of intractability
I've faced has always come from other legal professionals. Clients
just wanted to be sure I had strategies in place.

Warmth,
Sanho

On 9/3/23, Julie A. Orozco via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm working in our university's civil advocacy clinic this semester,
> and I have two questions.
>
> First, this might be a long shot, but has anyone used Search Light
> before? It's a program where you can upload a video and then cut out
> clips. Our clinic instructor wants us to film our simulations and
> client interviews, record them over Zoom, and then upload them to
> Search Light. Then we have to choose clips from the video to show the
> class. I don't have high hopes for this but wanted to see if it might
> be usable with Jaws.
>
> Also, any tips for client interviewing? Have any of you encounted
> clients who don't want to work with you because of your blindness? If
> so, how have you dealt with it? Perhaps I'm just worrying for no
> reason, but our clinic professor is building up interviewing like it's
> the most important thing in the world, so I'm getting nervous.
>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> Julie
>
>
> --
> Julie A. Orozco
> MM Vocal Performance, 2015; American University Washington College of
> Law, JD Candidate 2023
>
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