NABL and Thomson West Sponsor Seminar for Blind and Visually Impaired Attorneys

The National Association of Blind Lawyers (NABL) will be conducting a day-long training seminar for blind and visually impaired attorneys and law school students in Baltimore on April 10, 2008 as part of the 2008 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium: Disability Law: From tenBroek to the Twenty-first Century, April 10-11, 2008. Thomson West is helping to sponsor the training seminar and will be providing training on WestLaw for approximately half of the day-long session.  The training will be specifically targeted on using WestLaw with assistive technology. The other half of the day will be spent on exploring other technologies and substantive law issues. 

Seating for the trainng seminar is limited so blind/visually impaired attorneys can receive more individualized training. The cost is the training seminar and symposium are $150 each, reduced to $250 for attending both events. A limited number of scholarships are available for young attorneys and law students in their second and third years. Scholarship information is available from NABL President, Scott C. LaBarre [email]. [JH]