[blindlaw] Law Symposium

[McCarthy, Jim]

Lou Ann Blake, the coordinator of the upcoming Jacobus TenBroek
Disability Law Symposium, asked me to post the following message.  I
would further editorialize that you should make all efforts to attend
this event.  As you will see, the agenda contains some of the foremost
experts in disability law and policy.

Kareem Dale, President Obama's Special Assistant for Disability Policy
to Speak at the 2009 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium



Don't miss this opportunity to voice your concerns to Kareem Dale,
Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy, at the 2009
Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium on April 17th at the National
Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.  Mr.
Dale will speak on the Obama administration's policies on disability
issues for approximately thirty minutes followed by a forty-five minute
question and answer session.  In addition to Mr. Dale, the presenters
for the 2009 symposium are:

*	Maura Healey, Assistant Attorney General and Chief, Office of
Civil Rights, Commonwealth of Massachusetts;
*	Amy Robertson and Timothy Fox, Principals, Fox & Robertson,
P.C.;
*	Gerard Quinn, Professor of Law, National University of Ireland,
Galway;
*	Katherine Guernsey, International Lawyer and Adjunct Professor,
American University School of International Service;
*	Samuel Bagenstos, Visiting Professor of Law, University of
Michigan Law School;
*	Christine Griffin, Commissioner, United States Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission; and
*	Peter Blanck, University Professor and Chairman, Burton Blatt
Institute at Syracuse University.

Ari Ne'eman, founding president of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network,
will give the luncheon keynote address.

To view the full agenda, register online, or download the registration
form to register by mail or fax, visit the symposium web page at
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Law_Symposium.asp.  Hotel information may also be
found on the symposium Web page.  

The registration fee is $150; students may register for $20.  A limited
number of scholarships to cover the registration fee will be available
to individuals with demonstrated financial need.  Don't miss this
exciting opportunity to interact with leading scholars, government
officials, and advocates and to make your voice heard.  The deadline to
register is April 10, 2009.

Symposium attendees will be provided documentation for CLE credit.
Individuals will be responsible for filing the application for CLE
credit with their state board.

The 2009 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium is sponsored by the
National Federation of the Blind, the American Bar Association
Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, the Maryland
Department of Disability, the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil
Rights, and the Legal Times.

For additional information about the symposium, contact:

	Lou Ann Blake, Law Symposium Coordinator
	National Federation of the Blind
	Telephone: (410) 659-9314, ext. 2221
	E-mail: lblake at nfb.org