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Eve Hill, senior counselor to Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez at the United States Department of Justice, will be one of two keynote speakers at the 2012 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium. The symposium will consist of plenary sessions and workshops facilitated by distinguished law professors, practitioners, and advocates who will discuss topics such as: judicial perspectives on the presentation of disability cases, how to influence jurors' perception of disability, the impact of the ADA Amendments Act on employment cases, the role of identity in the disability rights movement, and disability discrimination in health care.
2012 plenary session presenters:
Adrienne Asch, Bioethics, Yeshiva University
David Ball, jury consultant, Miller Malekpour & Ball
Richard S. Brown, Chief Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals
Brian East, senior attorney, Disability Rights Texas
Katie Eyer, Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Donovan W. Frank, U.S. District Judge, District of Minnesota
Arlene S. Kanter, Syracuse University College of Law
Peggy R. Mastroianni, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Jane Perkins, National Health Law Program
Francis A. Polito, Chief Administrative Judge, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Silvia Yee, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
2012 workshop facilitators:
Michael Allen, partner, Relman, Dane & Colfax
Robert Ardinger, Ardinger Consultants and Associates
Charles Brown, Volunteer Lawyers for the Blind
Michael Bullis, blind parent
Matthew W. Dietz, Law Offices of Matthew W. Dietz, P.L.
Brian Dimmick, American Diabetes Association
Senator Lisa A. Gladden, Maryland General Assembly
Daniel F. Goldstein, partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP
Judith A. Gran, partner, Reisman Carolla Gran LLP
Katy Kaplan, Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of People with Psychiatric Disabilities
Scott C. LaBarre, principal, LaBarre Law Offices, PC
William J. Phelan, American Bar Association Commission on Disability Rights
Howard A. Rosenblum, National Association of the Deaf
Jackie Simon, Equal Rights Center
Joyce Walker-Jones, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Documentation for CLE credits will be provided.
Registration fee: $175
Student registration fee: $25
A limited number of scholarships to cover the registration fee will be available to individuals with demonstrated financial need.
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