[blindLaw] Shifting to Private Practice and Starting a New Job at K&E

[Abdulrahman Bagais]

Hi everyone,


I hope you are all well!


I am Abdulrahman Bagais, a totally blind legal practitioner from Saudi Arabia. I am very pleased to join the Blind Lawyers and find a community for visually impaired lawyers.


After nearly two years in my role as a legal trainee at Zahid Group, I have started a new role as a trainee associate at Kirkland & Ellis – Riyadh Office a month ago. As you can imagine, shifting to the private practice at a global law firm can be a bit challenging in the outset, there are a couple of systems used at K&E that I did not used to deal with in my previous role, the office is fairly newly established, so it takes some time to set up all the needed software and technologies and can be difficult to get accessible training and orientation.


I am writing generally to check if anyone has been in the same position and can help with any tips/advice, and also to ask about the screen reader that I use (NVDA), is there anyone in the group, by any chance, using/has used Acapela bilingual English/Arabic voices that can be used with NVDA? The IT team struggling to install a good quality version of bilingual English/Arabic version, also I have found it really difficult and not efficient to use the screen reader with large documents even if it’s word as it becomes very slow, anyone can help with this issue?


If anyone has been through the same challenges, please feel free to send me a message out of the group to discuss it further and your support will be much appreciated.


Many thanks!


Best Regards,

Abdul