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<A title=nfbf-jacksonville@nfbnet.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=glen105@att.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=seabreeze.stl@gmail.com
href="mailto:seabreeze.stl@gmail.com">nancy Lynn</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 07, 2016 11:18
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [NFBF-Jacksonville] {Disarmed}
Blind lawyer fights for rights of people facing disabilities</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B>From:</B> DBTAC - Great Lakes ADA Information
[mailto:GREATLAKES@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jones, Robin
Ann<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 7, 2016 4:24 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:GREATLAKES@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU">GREATLAKES@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU</A><BR><B>Subject:</B>
Article: Blind lawyer fights for rights of people facing
disabilities<o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>The following article is forwarded to you by the Great
Lakes ADA Center (<A
href="http://www.adagreatlakes.org">www.adagreatlakes.org</A>) for your
information:<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Chicago Law Bulletin<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Feature Article of the Day 11/07/16<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B>Blind lawyer fights for rights of people facing
disabilities<o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>By Emily Donovan, Law Bulletin Staff Writer<o:p></o:p></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Recently, Andrew R.
Webb called a client to ask her to describe something she had sent him. It was
a diagram of the medical equipment he was helping her apply for. “She said, ‘I
don’t know why you’re asking this; I sent you the picture of it,’” Webb said.
Most of the clients he works with communicate over the phone and have no idea.
“I said, ‘I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’m actually blind,’” Webb said.
There was dead silence on the other end of the phone. “I think for a second
she thought I was joking,” Webb said. “After she got over the initial shock,
she was actually quite impressed.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Webb, an Equal
Justice Works fellow at Equip for Equality sponsored by McDermott Will &
Emery LLP, provides educational materials and legal representation to Illinois
residents with disabilities. He helps them access health care and services and
appeals insurance providers’ denials when necessary.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Given the right
training, tools and opportunity, Webb said blind people like him work as
competently as any other attorneys. That’s the whole idea behind his work. He
said people with disabilities who don’t get the medical care and training they
need are at risk of losing their independence.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>“Knowing for myself
the importance of quality training and services and technology, that’s an
opportunity I want to help extend to other people with disabilities across the
state,” Webb said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Webb was sighted
for the first three decades of his life. He got his J.D., litigated defense
insurance at a big firm in Chicago and moved to San Francisco to work at a
boutique firm there.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>He has a
connective-tissue disorder that makes him hearing impaired and makes his eyes
susceptible to catastrophic injury. He wears protective glasses but lost sight
in one eye as a child. In 2007, when he was 32, he wasn’t wearing his glasses
and someone bumped him in the other eye with their
elbow.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Despite three years
of “many, many” surgeries to try to preserve his vision, the injury left him
completely blind by his mid-30s.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>“Didn’t work out,
but I can at least say I learned enough ophthalmology in the process to carry
a cocktail party conversation,” Webb laughed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Webb said he always
objectively knew losing his sight was a possibility, but that he avoided
thinking about it as much as possible.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>“The reality of
that settling in took some getting used to,” he said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Webb met with the
California Department of Rehabilitation and set his goal of getting back to a
law career. After attending a blindness rehabilitation training program in
Minnesota, Webb moved back to Chicago in 2011 with his wife and kids, later
starting his master of laws in child and family law at Loyola University
Chicago Law School. He volunteered at Equip for Equality to redevelop his
legal skills and get more exposure to special education and civil rights
issues for people with disabilities.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Despite 2015 being
the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, those with
disabilities still have a high unemployment rate. Equip for Equality Vice
President of the Civil Rights Team Barry C. Taylor said law school
administrators found students with disabilities equally competent as other
students but had a harder time getting jobs. Furthermore, Taylor said the law
school administrators said while some employers had started recruiting women,
people of color and members of the LGBT community, but people with
disabilities had not been incorporated into diversity
plans.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>An organization
called the ADA 25 Advancing Leadership formed to create a pipeline of civic
leaders with disabilities in Chicago. Taylor said they wanted to create a
legacy project, something that would at least symbolically address the high
unemployment rate for people with disabilities, so they created a fellowship
with Equal Justice Works.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Tammy Sun, Equal
Justice Works senior manager of fellowships, said she was impressed by Webb
and his idea to provide legal aid to people with disabilities seeking medical
services.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>“He just blew us
away,” said Tammy Sun, Equal Justice Works senior manager of
fellowships.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Webb said people’s
impressions of him and of how capable blind people are can depend on him
presenting himself with confidence and competence when he walks into a
room.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>“I find that if I
come across as well-prepared in a discussion with other practitioners, that
soon enough other people tend to forget or not focus on the blindness,” he
said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>For Equal Justice
Works fellowships, recently graduated attorney applicants pitch an idea of how
they can serve an unmet legal need in the community and what public-interest
legal organization they would work with. Equal Justice Works finds an
organization to sponsor the fellow for two years.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Elizabeth P. Lewis,
a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, which is funding Webb’s fellowship,
said it’s unique and invaluable for a person with disabilities seeking legal
help to get it from another person with disabilities.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Plus, people with
disabilities are another aspect of diversity efforts that Lewis said fosters
new ideas and a happy workplace. In fact, Lewis said McDermott’s diversity
group has a subcommittee for people with disabilities.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>“We view ourselves
as a law firm in a unique position to bring about change in a lot of different
ways, both as lawyers and also as corporate citizens and members of the
communities,” Lewis said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Webb said most
people in the general public know of so few blind people that he sometimes has
to teach people how capable a blind person can be. He said he enjoys that
role.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>“Most people’s
interactions with blind people is so limited that anything I do in front of
people who are meeting a blind person for the first time I think tends to have
a powerful impact one way or another,” he said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
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<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Webb said the few
blind attorneys he met when he first lost his sight congratulated him on
picking an excellent time in history to go blind.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Webb has a
screen-reading computer program that verbalizes any text directly into his
hearing aids. If he’s given a physical document, he can scan it with his
iPhone to send it through the program. Ironically, he said, he now reads
faster with text-to-speech software than before. He sets the computer voice on
such a fast setting that people he plays it for can barely comprehend
it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
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<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>“Usually, people
ask what language I’m listening to,” he said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Webb said it can be
difficult to keep up in live time if he’s reviewing documents with opposing
counsel, since he has to listen to the voices of other people while
simultaneously listening to the computer voice, but it all comes with
practice.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>He said one of the
biggest challenges of some work days is getting to the office in the first
place. Each morning, Webb and his guide dog Lance take a Metra train from
Glenview, then board a bus near Union Station to get to the Equip for Equality
office at 20 N. Michigan Ave.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MAX-WIDTH: 680px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>“It almost feels
like running 10 miles to get to the start of a marathon at times,” he
said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 3.75pt"><SPAN
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style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri",sans-serif'>Lance, whose
wagging tail might whack filing cabinets, is a friendly black Labrador
retriever. He takes a morning nap on the dog bed in Webb’s office as Webb
starts work.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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