
This page lists Lainey Feingold’s speaking events from 2017 through 2024. For 2025 speaking engagements and for recorded talks from previous years, please visit the Upcoming and Recorded Talks page.
To invite Lainey to speak or present a training, and to learn more about what she can offer your audience, visit the main Speaking Page.
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2024
Lainey is glad to be back at Axe-Con (the free digital accessibility online conference) sponsored by Deque to talk about accessibility as a civil right and what’s happening in the legal space. Whatever your role, come learn how you can put the law in your pocket to advance digital inclusion for disabled people.
Learn more about Axe-Con: The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape
Lainey is looking forward to participating in this Educause webinar with Sam Chandrashekar, Korey Singleton, and Seamus Harreys about the legal landscape and the importance of digital accessibility and disability inclusion in the digital learning environment.
Learn more about Digital Learning Accessibility: The Road Ahead (An Educause Webinar)
Lainey is glad to be (remotely) part of this innovative gathering taking place in Montreal on May 27-28. Flipping the usual script, there will be no presentations during the sessions. Instead, short presentations have been pre-recorded and the conversation in the room will moderated by a facilitator and a provocateur. Lainey has submitted to two pre-recorded sessions and will be the provocateur for the session on Ethics.
One is titled Collaboration Skills and Strategies for Accessibility and one is titled Delay Plagues U.S. Accessibility Regulations: Can Canada Do Better? Both can be found on the Submission Page of the Conference website.
Learn more about Accessible Canada – Accessible World A Digital Accessibility Ethics Code of Conduct
Lainey is excited to present at the Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD®) conference, a global gathering of cultural organizations sponsored by the Kennedy Center’s Access/VSA International Network. Lainey’s will be presenting with Marcelina Ramirez and Stephanie Lampkin, PhD on the topic of “Strategies for Collaborative and Solution-driven Approaches to Accessibility.”
In addition to this session, Lainey will be part of the closing “Ask Me Anything” panel on digital accessibility legal issues impacting cultural institutions.
Lainey is excited to present in person at Paris Web, “The event for an accessible and quality web.” Her talk is titled “Be a Dolphin not a Shark: Using cooperation over conflict to advance digital accessibility.”
Lainey is looking forward to kicking off the WordPress accessibility community’s 24 hour digital accessibility online gathering. Her keynote is titled Accessibility is a Civil Right: The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape for the WordPress Community. WordPress Accessibility Day is a “24-hour global event dedicated to promoting and learning website accessibility best practices for WordPress websites.” It’s free and everything is recorded. Thank you to the volunteers who make this event possible!
Lainey is looking forward to sharing the stage at M-Enabling with Susanna Laurin, the G3ICT/IAAP EU Representative and a deep well of knowledge about the European Accessibility Act (EAA). Susanna and Lainey will highlight the similarities and differences between the EAA and US disability rights legislation. We’ll take a birds-eye view of anticipated impacts on disabled people, industry, and policymakers worldwide as the EAA comes online in 2025, and US legislation and regulations continue to evolve.
Lainey is glad to be back with the 3Play community for this annual free online digital accessibility legal update. Because there is so much to cover, this year will be focused on the United States — stay tuned for other 3Play webinars on the global digital accessibility legal space.
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2023
Lainey is excited to offer the keynote presentation at the Level Access 2023 company kick-off gathering in Las Vegas. It will be the first time Lainey references Yoda and Darth Vader in a talk!
Lainey will be co-facilitating a full day training for lawyers and advocates at Disability Rights North Carolina focused on the strategies and tactics of Structured Negotiation in the context of advancing digital equality for disabled people. Lainey’s co-facilitator is Barry Taylor, Vice President for Civil Rights and Systemic Litigation at Equip for Equality in Chicago Illinois. Lainey and Barry first offered this training together at the National Disability Rights Network’s national convention in Washington, DC in 2022.
This is a private event for the TetraLogical team meeting held in London during Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) week. In addition to public presentations, Lainey offers Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape talks tailored to specific audiences both within the United States and globally.
Lainey is excited to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023 (GAAD) speaking with accessibility leaders at UK law firms at this private Microsoft event.
Lainey joins collaborative law practitioners in many fields to talk about Structured Negotiation and its quarter-century plus track record of advancing digital accessibility without lawsuits. Lainey will offer stories, skills and strategies at this symposium sponsored by the Center on Dispute Resolution of Quinnipiac University School Law. This event is free for law students.
Learn more about Structured Negotiation talk at the Quinnipiac Integrative Law Summer Institute
This talk is the keynote presentation at the Higher Education Web Accessibility Professionals annual Accessibility Summit.
Learn more about The Power of Digital Accessibility to Build Bridges and Open Doors in Higher Ed
This training is for lawyers and advocates at Disability Rights California, a statewide non-profit advancing and protecting the civil rights of disabled people in the state. Lainey’s trainings are packed with stories, strategies and hands-on exercises. She’s excited to co-lead this training with Disability Rights California lawyers Melinda Bird and Autumn Elliott.
Lainey is excited to co-present this session with friend and global blind activist Kim Charlson as part of #ID24. #ID24 is a virtual and free 24 hours of accessibility and inclusive design programming. No registration required. Lainey is grateful to the ID24 Team!
Learn more about A beautiful accessibility partnership: Advocates + lawyers working for change
Lainey is happy to be back at the M-Enabling Summit moderating a panel of all stars to talk about what is happening in the federal digital accessibility space — and what’s on the horizon. Lots to talk about!
Lainey’s excited to be back with the New York City Accessibility MeetUp, where she last presented in 2017. This talk, with plenty of time for Q and A, will offer an overview of what’s happening in the United States digital accessibility legal space. It will suggest ways we can all talk about the law, whatever our roles, without fear and restriction.
Lainey is happy to be part of Google’s ADI month in New York City this year.
Lainey is glad to be back with 3Play Media for her annual digital accessibility legal update. It’s free and online. With so much happening in the digital accessibility legal space, this year’s offering will be spread over two webinars. Register once for both. Part one will focus on what is happening in the United States.
This year’s annual digital accessibility legal update for 3Play Media will be in two parts. Both are free and online and you need only register once. Part Two will be a snapshot of global digital accessibility law and policy and includes strategies for talking about the law whatever your role, and for staying ahead of the legal curve wherever you are.
Learn more about 3Play Media’s Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold (Part Two)
Lainey is excited to be a keynote speaker at the Inclusive India: Digital First conference, sponsored by Barrier Break. Lainey’s will be speaking on one of her favorite topics: “Structured Negotiation: A Winning Strategy for Advancing Accessibility.” Barrier Break, founded by Shilpi Kapoor, is “the leader in offshore Digital Accessibility testing and consulting based in India, founded in the year 2004 with a strong belief that that technology can empower people with disabilities and elderly to live independently.”
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2022
Lainey is happy to kick off the 2022 season of her local digital accessibility meetup, the Bay Area Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup.
Learn more about A 2022 Legal Update of the Digital Accessibility Landscape with Lainey Feingold
Lainey loves speaking with law students about Structured Negotiation and the digital accessibility legal space. She appreciates Professor Ruth Colker inviting Lainey back to talk to her class for the second time.
Lainey is looking forward to this two-day Structured Negotiation training sponsored by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund. Contact Lainey for more information about this training, presented with civil rights lawyer Noah lewis and designed for lawyers and advocates committed to advancing the rights of transgender people.
Lainey is excited to speak to graduate students at on the topic of “Accessibility & Inclusive Design: human rights, people with disabilities, and the value of collaboration.” This class is taught by professors and accessibility professionals Catherine Tunney Braeken and Jane Motz Hayers.
Lainey is excited to share the tools and strategies of Structured Negotiation with the global accessibility community gathering online for the axe-con conference.
Lainey has spoken at CSUN most years since 2000. While there are now many other accessibility conferences building community around the globe, it is still true that every year CSUN attracts people brand new to accessibility. People who are not yet aware that accessibility is a civil right, or who may not yet know that one-line-of-code overlays don’t protect against lawsuits or create accessible sites. Those in the digital accessibility space for years still want to keep up with the law from a civil rights perspective. For these reasons, Lainey is offering her legal update at CSUN 2022.
[The image here shows the standing / sitting room only crowd the last time I presented at CSUN. My talk will be for both old-timers and the next generation of accessibility champions.
Lainey is glad to join the WordPress Accessibility Meetup to talk about accessibility as a civil right and what’s happening in the digital accessibility legal space.
Learn more about US Web Accessibility Laws in the U.S. 2022 | WordPress Accessibility MeetUp
Lainey is honored to be speaking at Microsoft’s Ability Summit this year, and especially pleased to be in conversation with technologist and big thinker Chancey Fleet.
Learn more about Ability Summit: Industry Trends in Accessibility
Glad to be back remotely at this year’s hybrid AccessU. The time listed here is for the live Q and A. My pre-recorded session is available to both remote and in-person attendees. I love offering the digital accessibility legal update at AccessU becuase the talk is a full 90 minutes!
Looking forward to blending two of my favorite topics — disability inclusion and conflict resolution — in this webinar sponsored by the Center for Understanding in Conflict
Learn more about Disability Inclusion and Accessibility in Conflict Resolution
Glad to be in this conversation with Melanie Rowan of the Center for Understanding in Conflict joining my twin passions of digital accessibility and collaborative dispute resolution!
Learn more about Disability Inclusion and Accessibility in Conflict Resolution
Lainey’s excited to be part of this inaugural web accessibility conference, speaking on something we all do — Accessibility Convincing! I titled this talk Accessibility Convincing: Putting ethics, people with disabilities, and civil rights at the center. Why? because too often these factors get lost in a cloud of fear, dollars and a narrow legal viewpoint.
Learn more about Speaker – Web Accessibility in Mind Conference
To celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), LinkedIn invited Lainey to be in conversation with co-founder Allen Blue about a wide range of topics including Structured Negotiation, best practices to increase employment of disabled people, and the role of culture in fostering disability inclusion.
Lainey’s glad to be moderating a session at the M-Enabling Summit, celebrating the 10th anniversary of this gathering with the theme “Digital Inclusion: Strategies for Equal Opportunities.”
Lainey is honored to keynote the annual Massachusetts Office on Disability (MOD) Summit in the state where she grew up. Lainey has been involved in Structured Negotiation work in Massachusetts since the early 2000’s. She’s looking forward to share stories and strategies from a quarter century of Structured Negotiation, talking about both highlights and ethics in the digital accessibility legal space. This is a free hybrid event – you can join from anywhere!
Lainey will be kicking off the Florida AHEAD (Florida Association on Higher Education and Disability) annual conference with a talk on “The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape: Civil rights at the heart of disability inclusion for students, staff, and faculty with disabilities.”
Lainey is excited to present this talk as part of Google’s Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Week, available to Google employees across the globe.
Lainey is looking forward to her annual end-of-the-year legal update presented by accessible video provider 3PlayMedia. Free and live captioned and ASL (of course!)
Learn more about 2022 Digital Accessibility Legal Update @ 3PlayMedia
2021
This webinar is limited to corporate partners who are part of the Disability:IN Inclusion Works program. Contact Lainey with questions about bringing this type of webinar to your organization.
Lainey is excited to ask the questions during this session with disability justice lawyer, author, and international speaker Haben Girma. This session is part of Disability:IN’s Inclusion Works Conference and limited to Disability:IN partners enrolled in the Inclusion Works program.
Lainey loves talking with law students about digital accessibility, disability rights, and how to achieve results without being a shark. Be a dolphin instead!
Learn more about Guest Speaker / Ruth Colker’s Disability Accessibility Class
Lainey’s looking forward to joining the accessibility champions of the Portland (Oregon) Accessibility and UX MeetUp. We’ll have a conversation about why accessibility is a human right and how everyone can put the law in their pocket to protect and advance that right.
Lainey is looking forward to speaking about digital accessibility with National State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). Since 1908, NASBA has served as a forum for the nation’s 55 State Boards of Accountancy, which administer the Uniform CPA Examination, license more than 650,000 Certified Public Accountants and regulate the practice of public accountancy in the United States.
Lainey will be asking the questions of disability justice lawyer Haben Girma, author of the wonderful Haben: the Deafblind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law. This event is free and open to the public. Read more about the book festival. Join us!
Learn more about Customer Communications Virtual Summit: Accessibility as a civil right
Lainey’s glad to be back at one of her favorite digital accessibility conferences – Knowbility’s John Slatin AccessU. Join me for a 90 minute legal update – I’m looking forward to being able to speak at a slower pace than usual!
Learn more about Digital Accessibility as a Civil Right: Legal Update for AccessU
Lainey’s glad to be part of this year’s DotGov Design Conference. Talking about ethics, accessibility, and civil rights to a community that can design those concepts into practice is one of her favorite things to do!
Learn more about Digital Accessibility: A Crucial Ingredient of Ethical Civic Tech Design
Hard to believe that Global Accessibility Awareness Day is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Lainey is glad to join the Accessibility Camp Bay Area for a look back on 10 years in the digital accessibility legal space…and a look forward to what might be next.
Learn more about Accessibility Camp Bay Area 10th Anniversary GAAD event
Lainey’s excited to moderate Disability:IN’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day webinar with powerhouse speakers Claudia Gordon, Angela Hooker, and Shilpi Kapoor. Together we have 98 years of experience in the digital accessibility space! Join us for this free event.
Learn more about Best Practices for Accessible, Inclusive Communications
Lainey loves to speak with developers around the globe about their role as human-rights champions as they develop accessible online experiences. Gratitude to React Finland for inviting her to their annual gathering.
This program is being offered by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) for providers (Sponsors) of continuing professional education (CPEs) for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). This is Lainey’s second program for NASBA, an organization that cares about digital accessibility for its community!
Learn more about Digital Accessibility Matters for Continuing Ed for CPAs (Summit Presentation)
In her role as the Disability:IN Digital Accessibility Resource, Lainey is glad to be part of Experian’s NDEAM events with this panel. Lainey will be presenting with Tom Foley, Executive Director of the National Disability Institute.
Lainey loves sharing the stories and strategies of Structured Negotiation with the committed disability rights advocates and lawyers who are part of the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN). For this event she will spend three hours with the state-wide team at Disability Rights Florida.
Lainey is looking forward to sharing digital accessibility best practices with the Penn State health community. This event is presented by the Penn State Health Dauphin County Disability Business Employee Resource Group, Penn State Health’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Penn State College of Medicine.
Lainey is glad to be back at 3Play Media for her final legal update of 2021.
Learn more about 2021 Digital Accessibility Legal Update with 3Play Media
2020
Lainey’s presentation at the annual Inclusion Works meeting is titled “Digital Accessibility Quick Bites: Procurement, Legal Issues, Resources.” Read more about the Inclusion Works program, an offering of Disability:IN.
First digital accessibility legal update webinar at 2020. It’s free! Thank you to the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation in the College of Design at Georgia Tech for sponsorship
Learn more about What’s Happening in the Digital Accessibility Legal Space (Free Webinar)
Lainey is happy to share thoughts and stories about ethics in the digital accessibility legal space with law students in professor Ruth Colker’s Disability Accessibility class. Lainey is a frequent writer and speaker about ethics and digital accessibility. Contact her if you are interested in bringing this type of programming to your organization.
It’s 2020 and it’s my 20th year attending CSUN. I’ve been offering the legal update for many years, and this year I’m glad to be sharing the 40 minutes with disability rights lawyer Tim Elder. Join us!
Learn more about CANCELLED/COVID19 2020 Digital Accessibility Legal Update at CSUN
Excited to join Kerrie Holleman (Microsoft), Catherine Watterson (Microsoft), Jeff Wissel (Fidelity), Eric Wright (Booz Allan Hamilton) for this panel in the Microsoft Suite. We’ll be talking about best practices for purchasing accessible technology with learnings from experience and the Accessible Procurement Toolkit from Disability:IN.
Big thanks to the volunteers at A Future Date Conference for gathering up Spring accessibility events cancelled due to Covid-19. Watch the recorded session of the Digital Accessibility Legal Update.
Learn more about A Future Date: Digital Accessibility Legal Update (keynote)
My gratitude to Lucy Greco for inviting me to participate in her keynote conversation about the importance of involving disabled people in all aspects of an organization’s digital accessibility program. Watch the recording of this conversation about adding people with disabilities to your workforce.
Digital accessibility, including accessible documents, has never been more important than in an era when so much of our world is virtual. Lainey’s happy to be sharing the digital accessibility legal update at Crawford Technology’s Summit.
This gathering will give ADA Symposium attendees a chance to meet Haben Girma in advance of her keynote presentation the next day.
Learn more about CANCELLED/COVID19 Haben Girma in Conversation with Lainey Feingold at ADA Symposium
I’m excited to be returning to the ADA Symposium and offering this three hour workshop on collaborative skills to advance ADA compliance.
Two hours for the digital accessibility legal update at this wonderful conference. Yay!
Learn more about CANCELLED / #COVID19 Digital Accessibility Legal Update at the ADA Symposium
Lainey’s excited to be part of AccessU’s switch to a virtual conference this May due to the corona virus. Her talk is part of an online deep-dive into accessibility learning with committed advocates for an inclusive digital world.
Learn more about Digital Accessibility Legal Update at (Virtual) AccessU
Lainey is glad to moderate this panel with industry leaders from Microsoft, Fidelity, and Booz Allen Hamilton to talk about best practices for accessible procurement. Perfect topic for the day before Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).
Lainey’s looking forward to being part of this Global Accessibility Awareness Day conversation with Chancey Fleet and GAAD co-founders Jennison Asuncion and Joe Devon.
Learn more about GAAD 2020: Deque After-Party Panel of Experts
Lainey is looking forward to this conversation with Lucy Greco during this 3Play Media Global Accessibility Awareness Day free virtual event.
Another US lawyer recently spoke about the “scorched earth litigation approach” to disability rights enforcement in the US. I appreciate this UK-based web-tv show inviting me to talk about something different! Also on Facebook Live.
Glad to be participating in this conversation with my friend and accessibility champion Sharron Rush of Knowbility. Free (but still need to register) and sponsored by the Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities.
Lainey dedicates this talk to Joseph Karr O’Connor, friend and WordPress accessibility advocate, who died earlier this year. In 2014 I wrote a story about Joesph and the generosity of the WordPress accessibility community.
Lainey is excited to return to #ID24 on a panel with her friends and web accessibility champions Lucy Greco of UC Berkeley and Stewart Hay of Intopia (Australia). Join us as we discuss the common themes in accessibility team building and championing, accessibility marketing, and accessibility lawyering!
Learn more about ID24: Honey over vinegar: winning strategies for digital inclusion
Lainey’s excited to help kick-off the wonderful A11yTO (Accessibility Toronto) week of conferences. Join her for this free event!
Learn more about Digital Accessibility Ethics (an A11yWeekTO kick-off keynote)
Lainey is excited to return (virtually) to the Asociación de Derecho Colaborativo de Euskadi (ADCE)’s annual congress to share stories and strategies of Structured Negotiation as a tool for advancing accessibility.
Learn more about Structured Negotiation: Collaboration for Universal Accessibility
Advocates need all available tools to convince organizations of the importance of the Americans with Disabilities Act and its critical role in creating an inclusive society – both online and in the built environment. Lainey will be leading an online workshop to share the tools of Structured Negotiation, an effective and ethical advocacy strategy with a twenty-five year successful track record.
Join Lainey for this free webinar on everything that is happening in the digital accessibility legal space. Lawsuits, settlements, best practices, ethics and more!
Learn more about 3Play Media 2020 Digital Accessibility Legal Update
Lainey is glad to be back at A11yCamp and joining her friends and colleagues Lucy Greco and Karl Groves to sound the global alarm about software that claims to solve accessibility problems but does not. This Australian conference is now virtual and global, and we’ll be talking about a global accessibility and ethical threat.
Join Lainey for this free conversation about the collaborative dispute resolution process called Structured Negotiation. Lainey, her clients and co-counsel pioneered this process twenty-five years ago and have used it ever since to resolve complex disability rights technology cases without the conflict and runaway expenses of traditional litigation.
Looking forward to being on this panel with Haben Girma, George Kerscher, and Megan Rose Dickey (moderator) at this fundraising event for the Silicon Valley’s Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. [Check back for session time during this two day conference on December 2 and 3.]
Learn more about Disability Rights and Inventing the Accessible Future @ Sight Tech Global
Lainey will be joining Merck during its Enterprise Digital Governance: RoundTable. Excited to share a delicious approach to accessibility with a company committed to digital inclusion for people with disabilities.
2019
This is the second year Lainey has been invited to present to David Hoffman’s class at Harvard Law School. Lainey will talk with the students (several from outside the United States) about Structured Negotiation, representing disabled clients, and how lawyers can best serve the disability community.
A free event that includes the trailer screening of “Crip Camp” by filmmaker and disability rights activist James Lebrecht followed by a panel discussion about disability history, identity, rights, and movements with Lebrecht, Denise Sherer Jacobson, Cathy Kudlick and Lainey.
Learn more about Panelist: Rethinking Diversity, Reintroducing Disability
Lainey will be part of a global panel and talk about her work on accessible technology using the collaborative tools of Structured Negotiation.
Lainey will be leading a discussion at this inaugural summit on digital accessibility law. The legal landscape has changed drastically in the past three years. How can lawyers representing all parties make sure the digital accessibility legal space is ethical and focused on problem-solving? How can we do this without compromising (i) the rights of disabled people to use all available tools to enforce hard-fought civil rights and (ii) the rights of technology owners to use statutorily provided legal defenses. Let’s talk about smart practices for all stakeholders.
This will be Lainey’s 19th year attending the CSUN conference. She has been presenting most years since 2001, and has been doing the legal update many of those years, beginning in approximately 2004.
Learn more about 2019 Digital Accessibility Legal Update at CSUNATC
Lainey will be speaking via webinar about Structured Negotiation to Columbia Law School’s disability rights course taught by Liz Emens. Law Students deserve to learn about options other than being a shark!
Lainey will have 1.5 hours for the digital accessibility legal update at the annual John Slatin AccessU Conference. She will repeat the session on Thursday May 16 at 2:00 and also offer it as part of AccessU online (see next listing).
Learn more about Digital Accessibility Legal Update @ AccessU
Lainey’s glad to offer the legal update as part of the 2019 online version of AccessU.
Learn more about Digital Accessibility Legal Update @AccessU Online
Lainey is grateful to the Association of Collaborative Law of Basque Country for the opportunity to share ideas about using collaborative tools like Structured Negotiation to help close the digital divide by increasing accessibility.
Learn more about Collaborative Tools for Digital Inclusion: Workshop in Basque Country, Spain
Join Lainey for a deep dive into the collaborative tools of Structured Negotiation in this three hour workshop for disability advocates. Gain skills that can help resolve disability claims without run-away costs, stress, and negative publicity. This will be a hands-on workshop with practical tools that Symposium attendees can bring to all types of advocacy efforts — including workplace conflicts!
Learn more about National ADA Symposium: Structured Negotiation Workshop
Lainey’s popular digital accessibility legal update designed for Symposium attendees. Current cases, Structured Negotiation and advocacy, government activity will be shared. We’ll talk about the role of the law in making the digital world accessible and best practices for baked in accessibility. Come learn how to put the law in your pocked to advance disability rights.
Learn more about National ADA Symposium: Digital Accessibility Legal Update
Lainey is excited to be attending her first DisabilityIn conference and presenting the digital accessibility legal update tailored to organizations committed to diversity and inclusion. This session is sponsored by Microsoft and will be moderated by Jessica Rafuse, Senior Program Manager, Accessibility, Corporate External Legal Affairs
Learn more about What’s New in the Digital Accessibility Legal Space @DisabilityIn Conference
Lainey is honored to be delivering the annual Lawrence Lecture on Dispute Resolution at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University.
Learn more about 2019 Lawrence Lecturer on Dispute Resolution @ Ohio State
Learn more about How to Navigate the Galaxy of Accessibility Laws @ACCESS by 3Play Media
Lainey will be a panelist on “Accessibility Matters: The Do’s and Don’ts from Industry Leaders”
Excited to join friends and colleagues to talk about ethics in the digital accessibility legal space. Part of a “curated playlist of talks, focused on digital accessibility” in Toronto.
Lainey is honored to be asking the questions (and taking audience questions) at Haben Girma’s book reading in Berkeley. Haben and I will talk about her wonderful book, Haben: The Deafblind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law.
Learn more about Haben Girma Book Reading (Haben in Conversation with Lainey)
2018
Speaker on MCLE panel, Practicing as a Disability Rights Attorney. Lainey will share her experience as a solo-practice lawyer with Berkeley Law students. She will tell stories of two decades of Structured Negotiation — negotiating complex civil rights cases with organizations including Walmart, Bank of America, the City and County of San Francisco, and Major League Baseball, all without lawsuits.
Lainey will share her experience as a disability rights lawyer practicing Structured Negotiation with Professor David Hoffman’s Diversity and Dispute Resolution class. The importance of making sure people with disabilities are included in negotiations and mediation — with needed accommodations and accessibility — is critical to a truly inclusive process.
Accessibility is a civil right. Welcome the new year with this free webinar where we will go over the basics of accessible technology, explore best practices for inclusive technology, and become familiar with the legal foundations for accessibility. This webinar is sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, a member of the National ADA Network, and TransCen, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to improving education and employment success of youth and young adults with disabilities.
Learn more about Free Webinar: Best practices for Inclusive Technology
Discussion about Structured Negotiation with the American Bar Association’s Section of Dispute Resolution Collaborative Law Committee. Lainey has written about the close relationship between Collaborative Law and Structured Negotiation. The toll free dial-in number for the call is: 866.646.6488. The Conference Code: 2360398078
Lainey will speak during the Tennessee Association of Mediators bi-monthly call about Structured Negotiation for Mediators: Twenty Years of Complex Dispute Resolution without Lawsuits. Read what mediators have said about Lainey’s book, Structured Negotiation, A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits.
An introduction to Structured Negotiation for members and friends of the Nashville Bar Association.
Lainey will take a deep dive into Structured Negotiation with lawyers and advocates from Disability Rights Tennessee, a state wide organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of people with disabilities in Tennessee. The elements that have made Structured Negotiation a successful dispute resolution strategy — including negotiating qualities of patience and trust — will be explored through both presentations and hands on exercises.
Lainey will return to her alma mater as a guest speaker on disability rights and technology.
Lainey will be offering the Digital Accessibility Legal Update three times at this year’s CSUN conference. See linked post for times and locations. This will be one session repeated, so everyone who wants to know what is happening in the digital accessibility legal space can. Please note that two of the sessions are not on the conference calendar, so please spread the word.
Learn more about 33rd Annual CSUN Conference: Digital Accessibility Legal Update(s)
Join Microsoft lawyer Sue Boyd and Lainey Feingold as they talk about best practices for digital accessibility that keep pace – and outpace — current legal developments in the accessibility space. Please note that this session is not listed on the conference calendar, so please spread the word!
Learn more about 33d Annual CSUN Conference: Beyond Compliance Session with Microsoft
Too often disability is left out when mediators and other peacemakers talk about diversity, inclusion, and civil rights. Lainey is exciting to be doing this session with three disabled disability rights lawyers — Robyn Powell, Deepa Goraya, and Debra Patkin. Together we will explore the intersection of dispute resolution and disability, including best practices for communicating with deaf and blind lawyers, parties and neutrals; Website and document accessibility; accommodation policies; disability issues in collaborative (family law) practice; accessibility issues in Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), language and disability awareness; Structured Negotiation and other successful DR strategies for disability rights claims; issues for disabled mediators; and marketing mediation and legal services to the disability community.
Join Lainey Feingold and disability rights/health care lawyer Andrés Gallegos for this webinar sponsored by the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association. Registration information will be posted when available. Lainey and Andrés will share their experiences representing the disability community in Structured Negotiation on a variety of health care issues including accessible clinics, web and mobile accessibility, and talking prescription labels. Participants will learn tools for resolving complex health care issues without litigation.
Lainey’s glad to be going back to Knowbility’s wonderful AccessU conference in Austin with a full ninety minutes for the digital accessibility legal update. Come learn to make sense of the legal landscape and put the civil rights of disabled people at the core of your accessibility work, no matter what your role.
Learn more about John Slatin AccessU: Digital Accessibility Legal Update
Lainey will join Knowbility’s Sharron Rush, and Microsoft’s Wendy Chisholm to kick off the 2018 AccessU conference with a conversation about the past and future of accessibility and how the notion of eldering can help ensure continuity and support for people in all stages of their accessibility careers.
The AccessU digital accessibility legal update for people unable to come to Austin!
Access to healthcare information, technology, programs, services and facilities is an issue of critical importance to the disability community. Without accessibility, confidentiality and privacy is compromised. Accessible health care technology issues include talking prescription labels, accessible medical records, accessible websites and mobile applications, video remote interpreting (VRI) and kiosks in hospitals and doctors offices. Come explore best practices for these issues and learn what advocates (and lawyers) are doing in the accessible health care space.
Learn more about 2018 National ADA Symposium: Information Technology in Health Care
Structured Negotiation is a highly effective strategy for resolving disability rights claims without the conflict and run aways costs that go along with filing a lawsuit. This session is for advocates, consumers, and lawyers. It will offer practical tools for working with government agencies, the private sector, and schools and universities in a way that builds relationships and produces long-term results. Lots of stories and examples from Structured Negotiation’s track record of improving access in the digital space for more than two decades.
Lainey will be presenting remotely at this system-wide conference of the University of Massachusetts campus. Her talk is titled: “What’s Law got to do with it? Accessibility as a civil right of UMass students, faculty and staff.” Lainey is doing this webinar in honor of her parents, both of whom graduated from the University of Masachsusetts in 1954.
Learn more about U Mass Accessibility Retreat: Access for All
Join Lainey for a legal update designed for web developers, designers, and accessibility professionals. Part of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) 2018 webinar series.
Lainey is thrilled to be doing this workshop with accessibility evangelist Shawn Henry at the Better by Design conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In this interactive workshop, Shawn and Lainey will share the tools of consensus decision making and structured negotiation they have worked with for many years. These tools, reflecting principles embedded in design thinking, can be used in work situations with teams, project leaders and clients to advance accessibility and achieve other personal and workplace goals.
Learn more about Better by Design Workshop: From the negotiating table to the design studio
Lainey is glad to be part of this inaugural online conference of the American Bar Association’s Section of Dispute Resolution’s Task Force on Relational Practices. The conference theme is “I can relate! Skills, Ideas, and Models for Engaging Differences.” A perfect fit for Structured Negotiation, which Lainey will be talking about with Louise Phipps Senft, author of “Being Relational: The Seven Ways to Quality Interaction and Lasting Change.
Lainey is excited to be part of an evening event in Sydney during her trip to Australia in October focused on disability and human rights. Lainey will be sharing the stage with Alastair McEwen, Australia’s Disability Discrimination Commissioner, and Rosemary Kayess, Interim-Director of the University of New South Wales’ Disability Innovation Institute, and member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This event is run in conjunction with the Sydney Web Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup, and features as a part of the Australian Digital Inclusion Alliance’s Digital Accessibility Awareness Week. It is sponsored by Telstra, UNSW Sydney, the University of Sydney and Intopia.
Learn more about Sydney Evening Panel: Legislation, Policy and Practice for Digital Inclusion
A half day workshop offering the tools of Structured Negotiation for anyone seeking to advance accessibility with less conflict and more problem-solving. Interactive and experiential (and fun!), participants will learn practical skills for working cooperatively to make the digital world usable and accessible to everyone.
Learn more about Structured Negotiation Workshop @ A11yCamp Melbourne
Lainey is thrilled to be returning to Australia to present a conference keynote at A11yCamp Melbourne. A11y (short for Accessibility) Camp Melbourne is Australia’s premier conference on accessibility and inclusion. Stay tuned for the full conference schedule. Lainey will also be presenting a Workshop at A11yCamp, listed separately on this page.
Lainey will spend October 23 and 24, 2018 in New Zealand on a visit sponsored by the Blind Foundation of New Zealand. On the 23rd she will lead a workshop with members of the Foundation’s Accessibility Tick Programme, an initiative to help New Zealand organizations become more accessible and inclusive of people with disabilities. Lainey thanks Jason Kiss, web accessibility advocate in NZ, for making the connections that led to this visit!
Lainey is excited to meet dispute resolution colleagues at this informal gathering with the Resolution Institute of New Zealand
Testing is a key component in an accessibility program that sticks. In the words of the organizers, this Symposium is peer reviewed, published, open, interactive and original. Lainey is excited to welcome participants to this event in a talk designed to remind everyone of the civil rights component that infuses every role in accessibility.
Learn more about Keynote, 3rd Annual ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium
Join Lainey for this annual update of the current state of the digital accessibility legal space. Digital accessibility is a civil right of disabled people. Whatever your role, you can put the law in your pocket to help make the digital world more inclusive. Lainey’s 2017 legal update was one of 3Play Media’s top 5 accessibility webinars that year.
Learn more about 3Play Media 2018 Digital Accessibility Legal Update (Free Webinar)
Join Lainey at Seattle’s Accessibility and Inclusive Design MeetUp where she’s share insights from the legal accessibility space in her talk, “Put the Law in your Pocket: Accessibility Legal Update for Digital Accessibility Professionals.”
Learn more about Accessibility and Inclusive Design Seattle (A11ySea) Year End MeetUp
Lainey is excited to do a continuing legal education presentation at Microsoft, a global accessibility champion. She will provide a fast paced look at the current digital accessibility legal landscape and for predictions of what’s next. Court orders, legislative and regulatory efforts, and collaborative settlements will all be discussed. Digital accessibility is a civil right; yet fear of the law is not a good motivator. Lainey believes that Microsoft’s multi-dimensional approach to accessibility is the best way to stay ahead of the legal curve.
2017
Lainey as a guest on Disability Matters, a radio show (with real time captions) hosted by Joyce Bender. Show starts at 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific.
Advocacy Skills Training – Using Structured Negotiation As An Alternative to Litigation. Free webinar sponsored by Legal Aid Association of California (LAAC).
Lainey presenting a book talk at Hastings College of the Law, 100 McAllister Street in the Skyroom from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Lainey presenting with Jessie Lorenz, Executive Director of the Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco and a participant in Structured Negotiation. The event is free and CLE credits are available for lawyers. 100 McAllister is a secure building so attendees should try to sign up in advance. In connection with this event, Hastings professor Sheila Purcell interviewed Lainey about her book and her disability rights practice.
Lainey speaking about Structured Negotiation and US Digital Law and Policy from 10:30 – 12:30 at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Farmer Conference Room. Lainey’s visit to the campus is sponsored by the Windsor Disability Law Student Society & Dr. Laverne Jacobs.
Learn more about Structured Negotiation and US Digital Law and Policy
Guest speaker at the Advocates’ Society breakfast. The society is “the premier provider of advocacy skills training across Canada”.
Lainey speaking to the ARCH Disability Law Centre about her book and the current state of digital accessibility law in the United States.
Lainey as the guest speaker at the Accessibility Toronto MeetUp (#A11yTO), a community of digital accessibility and inclusive design professionals. The event will be held in room 230 at 100 McCaul St, Toronto M5T 1W1 and is jointly presented with the Inclusive Design Research Centre of the The Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U).
Several presentations for students and faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School. Questions about Lainey’s events at Osgoode Hall can be directed to Martha E. Simmons, Director, Mediation Clinical Program.
Free webinar sponsored by the Emerging Enterprises Committee of the Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada), Inc. LES is the “leading association for intellectual property, technology, and business development professionals to achieve professional and personal success.”
Lainey as a guest speaker and panel member at the SSB’s CSUN Pre-Conference.
Learn more about SSB’s pre-CSUN Panel on Digital Accessibility Law
Lainey presenting, along with her colleague Linda Dardarian, the annual Digital Accessibility Legal Update at the 32d annual CSUN Technology Conference.
Join Lainey for a lightning book event on March 1 after the first full day of conference events at CSUN, the International Conference on Technology and People with Disabilities. Come hear stories from her book, Structured Negotiation, A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits . There’s even a CSUN story!
Free webinar sponsored by the Great Lakes ADA Center. 2:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific. Come learn why Structured Negotiation has been such a successful strategy in disability rights cases.
**NOTE: This webinar was archived and is available online on the Accessibility Online Website.
Learn more about Structured Negotiation: A Tool for Disability Rights
Book talk at the Washington, DC offices of the American Bar Association, co-sponsored by the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, the American Council of the Blind, and the American Foundation for the Blind. 5:30 – 7:00 at 1050 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 400.
Lainey as a panelist at the 2017 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium. Lainey speaking about Structured Negotiation at the session titled “The Lawyer’s Toolbox: Effective Legal Strategies for Achieving Digital Accessibility and Communication Access.”
Learn more about 2017 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium
Lainey presenting A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits: Resolving Legal Claims with Structured Negotiation at the 19th Annual Spring Conference of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association. During the conference Lainey will be honored as the individual recipient of the Section’s Lawyer as Problem Solver Award.
Learn more about 19th Annual Spring Conference, American Bar Association
The annual AccessU Digital Accessibility Legal Update will be a fast-paced review of the law as a driver for digital accessibility. The legal tools in the advocate’s toolbox are many, including litigation, Structured Negotiation, and federal and state agency complaints. Get up-to-date information on how these tools are being used, and what threats lurk as the federal government moves (rushes!) to the right and more and more lawsuits are filed.
The online version of the Digital Accessibility Legal Update will be presented at 11:00 Central time on Thursday May 18 by Environments 4 Humans.
Dinner Speaker at monthly meeting of the Mediation Society of Northern California. Structured Negotiation: A Twenty Year Track Record of Resolving Claims without Lawsuits
Lainey will present on Expanding the Lawyer’s Toolbox: Structured Negotiation as a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits. Please use the contact page to receive information about how to participate in this free webinar.
Free online webinar sponsored by the Legal Aid Association of California (LAAC) at noon Pacific on June 8. Brief overview of Structured Negotiation followed by a deep dive into how legal service lawyers can use the process to achieve results for clients, including damages, attorneys’ fees, and systemic change.
Learn more about Deep Dive Into “Structured Negotiation:” Focus on the Practitioner (Free Webinar)
Lainey is glad to once again be part of #ID24 – A *Free* 24-Hour Online Community Event On Accessibility sponsored by accessibility consulting firm The Paciello Group. Lainey’s talk is titled “What is Compliance? Using the Law to Frame Accessibility as a Civil Right” and is geared to everyone in the accessibility space, no matter what role. Check out the whole schedule and learn how to participate at the link below.
Learn more about Accessibility as a Civil Right: Free Webinar (part of #ID24)
Lainey will present the Digital Accessibility Legal Update at the M-Enabling Conference. The update will be introduced by Shilpi Kapoor, Managing Director of international digital accessibility consulting firm BarrierBreak. Lainey’s presentation is part of M-Enabling’s pre-conference, organized by the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP)
Speaker, National Disability Rights Network Annual Conference: “Structured Negotiation, a Winning Strategy for Disability Rights”
Learn more about Structured Negotiation, a Winning Strategy for Disability Rights
Lainey will present on Structured Negotiation: An Attorney’s Journey from Court Rooms to Client Settlements.
Learn more about American Council of the Blind Annual Conference and Convention
Structured Negotiation: a Winning Tool for Digital Accessibility. Luncheon speaker at the annual meeting of the American Association of Visually Impaired Attorneys (AAVIA), an affiliate of the American Council of the Blind.
Digital accessibility is a civil right. Everyone can learn to put the law in their pocket to talk about disability rights laws as a motivator, not a fear-producer. This update, not just for lawyers, will review the current digital accessibility legal landscape — lawsuits, Structured Negotiations, regulations, and what may be on the horizon.
Program sponsored by the Alameda County Bar Association, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section. Free for ACBA members. Charge for the public. 1.5 hours Continuing Legal Education units.
This free on-line version of the digital accessibility legal update will be presented at 2:00 Eastern (11:00 Pacific) on September 19.
Learn more about 2017 Digital Accessibility Legal Update for 3Play Media (Free)
Canadian Business SensAbility is a national network of Canadian business leaders dedicated to disability inclusion. Lainey is a participant on this panel as part of the organization’s “Open the Door Wider” series.
Lainey will kick off this afternoon Canadian SenseAbility event for lawyers committed to disability diversity and inclusion. The afternoon event will be held at the Norton Rose Fulbright LLP law firm. More details coming soon.
Lainey will present on digital accessibility law and policy at Oklahoma’s annual conference on accessibility for people with disabilities. The tile of her presentation is What’s Law Got to Do with it? Digital Accessibility, Civil Rights, and the Current Legal Landscape.
Learn more about TechAccessOK 2017 Speaker: Digital Accessibility Legal Update
This afternoon CLE (Continuing Legal Education) talk about Structured Negotiation as a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits is sponsored by Equip For Equality and JPMorgan Chase. The session is designed for lawyers from private law firms and corporate legal departments lawyers. Equip for Equality is Illinois’ premier disability rights legal organization, and JPMorgan Chase has long been a digital accessibility leader. Continuing Legal Education credit will be available for this free event.
Learn more about Equip for Equality Structured Negotiation CLE for Lawyers
Lainey is excited to present the digital accessibility legal update for the “digital accessibility enablers” who comprise Chicago’s Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design MeetUp. A special thanks to MeetUp organizer Dennis Deacon. This event will be live streamed, captioned and recorded. At the time of the event, the Live Stream will be here and the Live Captions will be here
Learn more about Legal Update for the Chicago Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design MeetUp
Please note: this event is for Northwestern University staff, faculty, and students only. At lunch time event Lainey and Chicago disability rights lawyer Andres Gallegos will share stories and answer questions about Structured Negotiation. Andres, along with his clients and co-counsel have had great successes with Structured Negotiation in improving health care services for disabled people. Lainey and Andres will share stories of their cases and clients, and talk about how Structured Negotiation trades the stress, conflict, and cost of litigation for a process focused on solution and relationship-building.
Learn more about Northwestern University Structured Negotiation Event
Talk at Cardozo law school in New York City: “Thinking Outside the Box: Twenty Years of Dispute Resolution without Lawsuits, Conflict or Run Away Costs. An evening of stories with author and disability rights lawyer Lainey Feingold.” Cardozo’s Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution is one of the nation’s leading programs in alternative dispute resolution. This event is sponsored by the Cardozo Dispute Resolution Society.
Learn more about Cardozo Law School Structured Negotiation Event
Join Lainey Feingold and the dispute resolution communities at Yale and Quinnipiac Law Schools for a talk and book signing about Structured Negotiation: “Negotiating for Equality: Two Decades of Structured Negotiation.”
Learn more about Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop: Structured Negotiation Talk
Join Lainey at the Baruch College Bookstore in New York City for a book talk and signing sponsored by the Computer Center For Visually Impaired People and the American Foundation for the Blind and co-sponsored by the A11y NYC MeetUp.
Learn more about Baruch College Structured Negotiation Book Talk and Signing
Lainey is excited to be giving a talk in Sydney Australia titled “Structured Negotiation and the quest for equal access in the digital age: lessons from the US disability rights movement.” The event is sponsored by the Digital Gap Initiative, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Ltd, and the Australian Human Rights Centre, at the University of New South Wales Law School. The event will take place at Ashurst Australia, one of the country’s largest law firms.
Learn more about Sydney Australia Structured Negotiation Event