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

Sun Jul 30 00:52:05 UTC 2017

oooohhhh, Joe, this is great!!! Scott is a wonderful speaker and will
definitely keep our momentum goin'
Thanks for  the good news.
Annemarie

On 7/29/17, joe ruffalo via NFBNJ <nfbnj at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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
> Your old car keys can be keys to literacy for the blind.
> Donate your unwanted vehicle to us by clicking
> www.carshelpingtheblind.org
> or call 855 659 9314
>
> ****
>
> If you have read this far, great!
> Please share with others!
>
>
> 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).
>
>
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Annemarie Cooke