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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 20, 2019 1:24PM


One thing lawyers can do is to help educate and support organizations in terms of thinking inclusively with accessible outcomes. Organizations often look toward external counsel for trusted direction. Most organizations believe an audit of a product or service is the solution and they just want an issue to go away so they can focus on their business. Long term inclusion and strong business can only come through organizational change and innovation. So rather than just saying let's make this problem go away -- attorneys can help organization realize they need to address the problem with a long term solution, with innovation, and this will lead to a stronger and more diverse business.

Jonathan

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Brandon,

As much as I completely agree with you, most lawyers are not legislators. Their specialty is to stand between legislation and judges on behalf of their clients. With so much conflicting legislation, I feel their greatest value is sometimes to make sense of it for the folks on both sides whose emotions cloud their vision, that is, negotiators for the many rights with which we are blessed in this country.

What could that person do for the disabled?

Cheers,
Peter