DISABILITY/ACCESS SPECIALISTS

Conflict Resolution for the 21st Century


	DISABILITY/ACCESS SPECIALISTS
	DISABILITY/ACCESS DISPUTES are ideal for mediation, given the key concept of flexibility that permeates the law. Employers are required to provide “reasonable” accommodations to enable employees to perform the “essential job functions” if doing so does not pose an “undue hardship.” The demand for accessibility to public accommodations has increased lawsuit filings to gain compliance with the law. The cases are numerous, complex, and face uncertain outcomes in the courts. If making new law is not a litigator’s goal, and an effective and efficient resolution is, mediation is the answer. It behooves the practitioner to be guided through this highly technical and evolving area of the law by a conflict resolution professional who has practical as well as legal acumen in this area.
Our retired justices, judges, magistrates and attorney-mediators have expertise in resolving a range of disability/access issues, including:
Reasonable Accommodation Technical Assistance for Individuals or Public/Private Entities Reasonable Modifications in Policies, Practices Complex, Multi-Party Mediations Involving Overlapping and Procedures Statutory Schemes Interactive Discussion, Essential Job Functions, “Readily Achievable” Barrier Removal Protected Individuals Accessible Design Requirements Overlapping Disability Statutes

Hon. Daniel A. Curry1,5

Hon. Bruce J. Einhorn4

Hon. Joyce Karlin Fahey

Hon. Margaret M. Grignon1

Hon. J. Gary Hastings1

Hon. Dion G. Morrow

Hon. Jack Newman

Hon. Victor H. Persón

Hon. Arleigh Maddox Woods1

Lynn S. Bassis, Esq.

Nicholas DeWitt, Esq.

Katherine J. Edwards, Esq.

Lloyd C. Loomis, Esq.

Christine Masters, Esq.

Everett F. Meiners, Esq.

Alan P. Ribakoff, Esq.

Deborah Rothman, Esq.

John D. Weiss, Esq.

1 Retired Court of Appeal
4 Retired Federal Court
5 Available in Hawaii

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