2nd National Conference on Employment of Lawyers with Disabilities

Speakers

Kareem A. Dale, Esq. Associate Director, White House Office of Public Engagement & Special Assistant to President Obama for Disability Policy, Washington, DC - BIO
Isaac J. Lidsky, Esq., Law Clerk to the Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor (Retired) and the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate, Justices, Supreme Court of the United States; President, Chairman, and Founder, Hope for Vision, Washington, DC - BIO

Alex J. Hurder, Esq., Chair, American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law (CMPDL); Clinical Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, TN - BIO
Scott C. LaBarre, Esq., Past CMPDL Chair (2003-2006); LaBarre Law Offices, P.C., Denver, CO - BIO
Representatives from Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA)
H. Thomas Wells, Jr., Esq., ABA President, Partner, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, AL - BIO

Joan M. Durocher, Esq., Senior Attorney Advisor, National Council on Disability, Washington, DC - BIO
Michael S. Greco, Esq., Partner, K&L Gates, LLP & Past President ABA (2005-2006), Boston, MA - BIO
Fredrick J. Krebs, Esq., President, Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), Washington, DC - BIO
James G. Leipold, Esq., Executive Director, National Association for Legal Placement (NALP), Washington, DC - BIO
Veta T. Richardson, Esq., Executive Director, Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), Washington, DC - BIO

Carrie G. Basas, Esq., Assistant Professor, The University of Tulsa, College of Law, Tulsa, OK - BIO
Mariyam A. Cementwala, Esq., Associate, Wilmer, Cutler Pickering, Hale, and Dorr, LLP, Washington, DC - BIO
Wendy F. Hensel, Esq., Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA - BIO
Marianne S. Huger, Ed.D, Associate Director of Disability Services, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC - BIO

Michael E. Baillif, Esq., Associate General Counsel, Ernst & Young, LLP, Washington, DC - BIO
Noel Nightingale, Esq., Civil Rights Attorney, U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Seattle, WA - BIO
Walter J. Smith, Esq., Managing Partner, Baker Botts, L.L.P., Houston, TX - BIO
John L. Wodatch, Esq., Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC - BIO

Charles S. Brown, Esq., Director, Volunteer Lawyers for the Blind, American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults, Baltimore, MD - BIO
Andrew D. Levy, Esq., Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP; Past Commissioner, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law (2005 – 2008); Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, MD - BIO
Michael A. Stein, Esq., Ph.D., Cabell Research Professor, William & Mary School of Law and Executive Director, Harvard Project on Disability, Williamsburg, VA - BIO
David B. Wilkins, Esq., Lester Kissel Professor of Law and Director, Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

William H. Grignon, Esq., St. Petersburg Beach, FL- BIO
Eve L. Hill, Esq., Senior Vice President, Burton Blatt Institute of Syracuse University, Washington, DC - BIO
Walter H. Lohmann, Jr., Esq., Partner, & Firm-wide Diversity Committee Co-Chair, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Washington, DC - BIO
Michele L. Crawford, Esq., Attorney Advisor, Equal Employment Opportunity Staff, U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Washington, DC - BIO

Linda Carter Batiste, Esq., Principal Consultant, Job Accommodation Network (JAN), U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Morgantown, WV - BIO
Emily S. Blumenthal, Esq., Partner, Jackson Lewis LLP, Atlanta, GA - BIO
Christopher J. Kuczynski, Esq., Assistant Legal Counsel and Director, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ADA Policy Division, Office of Legal Counsel, Washington, DC - BIO
Mildred A. Rivera-Rau, Esq., Attorney Advisor, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Office of Federal Operations, Washington, DC - BIO

J. Daniel Fitz, Esq., Solicitor (Eng. and Wales), Chair, ACC; Formerly Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Company Secretary, Misys plc, London, United Kingdom - BIO
Lucy Lee Helm, Esq., Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Litigation & Brand Protection, Starbucks Coffee Company, Seattle, WA - BIO
Alex J. Hurder, Esq., Chair, ABA CMPDL - BIO
H. Thomas Wells, Jr., Esq., President, ABA - BIO