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

[tai.tomasi8 at gmail.com]

Abdul,
Welcome to the list and congratulations on your new role as an associate for
Kirkland & Ellis. Most attorneys who use screen readers are using JAWS for
Windows due to its advanced handling of larger documents, arguably more
robust feature set, and the variety of voices and languages supported. Its
commands are quite similar to those of NVDA. I recommend you give it some
consideration. It is something your firm should be able to purchase for you.
Tai


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

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
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