[NFBNJ] Announcing The National Representative For Our 41st State Convention Live The Life You Want; Let's Make It happen

[joe ruffalo]

Greetings to all!
I am pleased and excited to announce the national representative for our 
41st state convention, Live The Life You Want; Let's Make It Happen!
The state convention will be held from Thursday, November 9 through Sunday, 
November 12, 2017 at the Holiday Inn, 151 Route 72 East, Manahawkin.
Access Link accessible.
To make hotel reservations, please call 609 481 6100 and use code, NFB.
Room rate is $89 per night plus tax.  Breakfast is included for each person 
registered with the hotel and attending the state convention.
Your card will not be charged at time of reserving your room and therefore, 
get to it!
For additional information, please visit the state website at
www.nfbnj.org

The bio for our national representative is provided after my signature 
block.
He has energy, passion, compassion and a voice that will raise your 
expectations to live the life you want as we change what it means to be 
blind!
With all this said, read below.
He will attend a conference call prior to the state convention, stay tuned!

We care. We share. We grow. We make a difference
Joe Ruffalo, President
National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey
973 743 0075
nfbnj1 at verizon.net
www.nfbnj.org
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Scott C. LaBarre, Esq.
LaBarre Law Offices P.C.
Denver, Colorado

Scott C. LaBarre owns and operates LaBarre Law Offices P.C., (LLO).  LLO
specializes in employment law, disability rights, Randolph-Sheppard Act
cases, and some international policy work particularly in the area of
copyright law.  Mr. LaBarre has appeared in federal and state courts
throughout the United States securing many important victories for his
clients such as Enyart v. National Conference of Bar Examiners, 630 F.3d
1153 (9th Cir. 2011)(securing the right for blind students to use assistive
technology as an accommodation on the multistate bar exam) and Cannon v.
Palmer College of Chiropractic, 850 N.W.2d 326 (Iowa 2014)(securing the
right of a blind student to pursue a doctor of chiropractic degree with his
requested accommodations).  He is permanently admitted before the Supreme
Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals for the
Second, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and DC Circuits, the United States
District Court for the District of Colorado, the Supreme Court of Colorado,
and the Maryland Court of Appeals (Maryland’s highest court).  LaBarre has
been named one of Colorado’s Super Lawyers, a distinction recognizing the
top five percent of Colorado attorneys.

Prior to launching his own firm in July of 1998, Mr. LaBarre acted as
general counsel for the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) of Colorado,
where he specialized in laws affecting the blind and disabled.  Mr. LaBarre
served in that capacity for five years.  Even after establishing LLO, he
remains very active in the NFB through his volunteer service in many
leadership roles.  In October of 2005, members of the NFB of Colorado
elected LaBarre their President.  He also serves as Chairman of the
Preauthorized Contributions Committee, one of the Federation’s major
national fundraisers.  Additionally, he is President of the National
Association of Blind Lawyers and serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of
Directors for the Colorado Center for the Blind.  The Federation has
presented LaBarre with the Raymond W. McGeorge Award in 2010 for his work on
behalf of the blind in Colorado and the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award in 2014 for
his efforts to achieve successful adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty to
Facilitate Access to Published Works for Individuals Who Are Blind, Visually
Impaired, and Otherwise Print Disabled.

Since 2010, LaBarre has acted as the NFB’s lead delegate to the World
Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO’s) Standing Committee on
Copyright and Related Rights to work on an international treaty to create
the international exchange of published works in accessible formats for the
blind and print disabled leading to the adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty in
June of 2013.  This work has led to his election to the Accessible Books
Consortium Board, a body sponsored by WIPO and designed to serve as an
entity implementing the Marrakesh Treaty on a practical level, promote
cross-border exchange of accessible books for the print disabled, and to
encourage inclusive publishing.

As an original and current member of the Steering Committee, LaBarre helped
to establish the Federation’s Jacobus tenBroek Law Symposium on Disability
Rights which gathers leaders from all sectors in the arena of disability
rights to discuss the current status of the law and to plan needed reform.
LaBarre has presented at the Symposium on several occasions.
He is active in national, state and local bar associations through his
service in many roles.  LaBarre is a founding member of the Disability
Rights Bar Association and serves on its Executive Board as Chairman.  In
September of 2016, LaBarre began a three year term on the American Bar
Association’s Board of Governors.  He has also been a Commissioner on the
ABA’s Commission on Disability Rights and served as its Chair from
2004-2007.  Mr. LaBarre is also active in the ABA's Solo, Small Firm, and
General Practice Division and reassumed a position on its governing council
starting in August of 2013, previously serving on the Division’s Council
from 2005 through 2009.  In the last decade plus, he has also performed the
roles of a Director in the ABA’s Young Lawyers Division, Vice Chairman and a
member of the ABA-YLD Bar Leadership Team, YLD Liaison to the ABA Commission
on Mental and Physical Disability Law, a member of the Colorado Bar
Association Board of Governors, and Treasurer and a member of the Executive
Council of the Denver Bar Association’s Young Lawyers.

Mr. LaBarre received his Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota in
1993 and his Bachelor of Arts from St. John’s University in Collegeville,
Minnesota in 1990.  He left Minnesota in 1993 to work at the National
Headquarters of the National Federation of the Blind.  He moved to Colorado
in June of 1994.  He is married to a wonderful woman who originally hales
from Armenia, Anahit Galechyan.  Anahit and Scott have two children,
Alexander (born October 2002) and Emily (born December 2004).