Lainey Feingold’s Law Office Turns 30

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This is a short article celebrating the 30th anniversary of Lainey Feingold’s Law Office. Lainey works at the intersection of disability, technology, collaborative problem solving, and digital accessibility ethics. She is grateful for friends and colleagues around the world who have made her work possible.

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October 1st 2026, was the 30th anniversary of The Law Office of Lainey Feingold (commonly known as LFLegal). My kids were 10 and 7 in 1996 and I was having trouble balancing being a mom and being a lawyer at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. I decided to work for myself from home and see what would happen.

In my wildest dreams I could not have imagined how beautifully the next 30 years would unfold for me. The graphic with this article boils down those 30 years to

  • Structured Negotiation
  • Digital Accessibility Ethics
  • Advancing Accessibility Together

And there is of course so much more (especially the overlapping global accessibility and disability communities).

But the most important words on the graphic are these:

Thank you for being part of my journey.

I won’t make a list of people to thank because I would leave out people who made it (still make it) all possible. I hope you all know who you are and how grateful I am.

To learn more about the history of my law firm and why the website url is LFLegal, check out the article I wrote for the 25th anniversary.

I hope you will explore this LFLegal website and learn more about the last thirty years of my law practice. The site has more than 400 articles, and on the Topics Page you can find all of those articles organized by topics. On the Archive Page you can find those same articles organized by month of publication or last update and on the Articles Page you can find a short summary with a link to those articles.

On the high level navigation menu you can find 15 content-rich pages, including the global law and policy page, and the digital accessibility ethics book page. And on the Settlements page you can find most of the public agreements reached in Structured Negotiation beginning in 1999.

Thanks to Derek Shields and his company, ForwardWorks Consulting for designing and having the idea for the graphic with this article (and for encouraging me to actually share it here!) Derek is the Impact Campaign Manager for Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech.