[blindlaw] blindlaw Digest, Vol 43, Issue 2
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MICHELLE WHATEVER YOU DO , DO NOT FGIVE UP. THERE IS
A PLACE FOR YOU . JUST KEEP YOUR OPTIONS OPEN AND ASK
EVERYONE TO KEEP UYOI IN MIND,. TRY LEGAL AID ALSO OR
THINK ABOUT PAIRING WITH OTHERS WHO MAY NOT HAVE WHAT
YOU HAVE, THE DEGREE AND LICENSE BUT HAVE THE WILL ,
ENERGY AND DESIRE TO WORK WITH YOU TO HELP IN THE
AREAS YOU ARE INTERESTED IN AND START UP ON YOUR OWN.
THE LOANS FOR MINORITIES AND WOMEN ARE IN THE MINORITY
ARE THERE AND LOCAL CRA'S, COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCIES, OFTEN LOOK TO GIVE AWAY FREEBIES TO
BUSINESSES THAT SET UP FIRMS N THIER CITIES TO
REBUILD THE DOWNTOWNS. TRY SCHOOL DISTRICT'S LAW
OFICEES ALSO BUT NEVER GIVE UP! YOU ARE NEEDED.
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> 3. Re: Need Help (Nightingale, Noel)
> 4. experience scanning legal materials (denise
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> 5. Re: experience scanning legal materials
> (Russell J. Thomas, Jr)
> 6. Re: Need Help (Frye, Dan)
> 7. Re: Need Help (A S)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:10:39 -0500
> From: "M T" <mtarley at gmail.com>
> Subject: [blindlaw] Need Help
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> Hi All,
> I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful
> Thanksgiving. I need some
> help. I am still looking for a job. I have passed
> the Georgia Bar and
> I was sworn in about 2 weeks ago. I thought that
> potential employers
> would begin to take me seriously, but some still
> have there doubts as
> to whether a blind person can make it practicing
> law. If anyone has
> any contacts that I could talk to I would greatly
> appreciate it. I
> just want a chance to show people that I can do it.
> I am interested in
> the areas of Disability Law, Special Education and
> Civil Rights.
> Please, if any one knows someone that might be
> willing to give me a
> chance I will be so grateful. I just want to help
> others navigate
> through some of the hurdles that I have overcome, if
> there is some one
> out there that can assist me please contact me.
> Thanks. Have a
> wonderful Holiday Season.
>
> Best,
> Michelle
>
> --
> Michelle Tarley, J.D., University of Georgia School
> of Law
>
> "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"
> --
> Helen Keller
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:33:37 -0800
> From: "Marianne Haas" <braillewoman at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Need Help
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of M T
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:11 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: [blindlaw] Need Help
>
> Hi All,
> I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful
> Thanksgiving. I need some
> help. I am still looking for a job. I have passed
> the Georgia Bar and
> I was sworn in about 2 weeks ago. I thought that
> potential employers
> would begin to take me seriously, but some still
> have there doubts as
> to whether a blind person can make it practicing
> law. If anyone has
> any contacts that I could talk to I would greatly
> appreciate it. I
> just want a chance to show people that I can do it.
> I am interested in
> the areas of Disability Law, Special Education and
> Civil Rights.
> Please, if any one knows someone that might be
> willing to give me a
> chance I will be so grateful. I just want to help
> others navigate
> through some of the hurdles that I have overcome, if
> there is some one
> out there that can assist me please contact me.
> Thanks. Have a
> wonderful Holiday Season.
>
> Best,
> Michelle
>
> --
> Michelle Tarley, J.D., University of Georgia School
> of Law
>
> "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"
> --
> Helen Keller
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:46:29 -0500
> From: "Nightingale, Noel" <Noel.Nightingale at ed.gov>
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Need Help
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List"
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> Noel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of M T
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:11 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: [blindlaw] Need Help
>
> Hi All,
> I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful
> Thanksgiving. I need some help.
> I am still looking for a job. I have passed the
> Georgia Bar and I was
> sworn in about 2 weeks ago. I thought that potential
> employers would
> begin to take me seriously, but some still have
> there doubts as to
> whether a blind person can make it practicing law.
> If anyone has any
> contacts that I could talk to I would greatly
> appreciate it. I just want
> a chance to show people that I can do it. I am
> interested in the areas
> of Disability Law, Special Education and Civil
> Rights.
> Please, if any one knows someone that might be
> willing to give me a
> chance I will be so grateful. I just want to help
> others navigate
> through some of the hurdles that I have overcome, if
> there is some one
> out there that can assist me please contact me.
> Thanks. Have a wonderful
> Holiday Season.
>
> Best,
> Michelle
>
> --
> Michelle Tarley, J.D., University of Georgia School
> of Law
>
> "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"
> --
> Helen Keller
> _______________________________________________
> blindlaw mailing list
> blindlaw at nfbnet.org
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:17:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: denise avant <dravant at ameritech.net>
> Subject: [blindlaw] experience scanning legal
> materials
> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
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>
> hello all,
> In my job, i have to read a lot of transcripts
> from the federal and State courts. in some new
> cases, i can get the court reporter to send me a
> copy of the transcript on disk. however, if the case
> is old, and the transcripts have already been
> generated, it is impossible to have this done. thus,
> myself or my reader will scan the transcript with
> openbook, kurzweil or hp scan. when my reader does
> it she saves the file as a rtf file or a word file.
> when i pull it into word or braille it out, the file
> is virtually unintelligible. however, she is able to
> visually read it on the screen. She uses the hp scan
> program because she says the openbook or kurzweil
> program does not handle the material well at all. i
> know there will be some scanning errors. but she
> recently scanned two volumes of a documetn, and
> while she can read it i cannot. can anyone share
> their scanning experiencces with legal transcripts
> if any? thanks.
> -------------- next part --------------
> hello all,
> In my job, i have to read a lot of transcripts from
> the federal and State courts. in some new cases, i
> can get the court reporter to send me a copy of the
> transcript on disk. however, if the case is old, and
> the transcripts have already been generated, it is
> impossible to have this done. thus, myself or my
> reader will scan the transcript with openbook,
> kurzweil or hp scan. when my reader does it she
> saves the file as a rtf file or a word file. when i
> pull it into word or braille it out, the file is
> virtually unintelligible. however, she is able to
> visually read it on the screen. She uses the hp scan
> program because she says the openbook or kurzweil
> program does not handle the material well at all. i
> know there will be some scanning errors. but she
> recently scanned two volumes of a documetn, and
> while she can read it i cannot. can anyone share
> their scanning experiencces with legal transcripts
> if any? thanks.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:18:18 -0800
> From: "Russell J. Thomas, Jr" <rjtlawfirm at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] experience scanning legal
> materials
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'"
> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Message-ID: <000601c83602$c9f63710$6401a8c0 at RThomas>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> There are at least two reasons for this problem.
> First, you may be working
> from a poor copy. If the print is faint, the
> quality of the scan will be
> poor, no matter which scanning software you use. If
> possible, you should
> have the transcript recopied in the hope that there
> will be a better
> contrast between the printed material and the paper
> that the printed
> material appears on. The better the contrast the
> more readable the scan
> will be.
>
> The second issue may be the quality of the scanning
> software. I find that
> Omnipage Version 16, (the most recent version) gives
> the best scanning
> results, although others may have alternative
> suggestions.
>
> Unfortunately, this is a problem we all face from
> time to time. It happens
> less often than it used to, but it still happens.
> Hang in there!
>
>
>
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
>
>
> Russell J. Thomas, Jr.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of denise avant
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:18 PM
> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blindlaw] experience scanning legal
> materials
>
> hello all,
> In my job, i have to read a lot of transcripts
> from the federal and State
> courts. in some new cases, i can get the court
> reporter to send me a copy of
> the transcript on disk. however, if the case is old,
> and the transcripts
> have already been generated, it is impossible to
> have this done. thus,
> myself or my reader will scan the transcript with
> openbook, kurzweil or hp
> scan. when my reader does it she saves the file as a
> rtf file or a word
> file. when i pull it into word or braille it out,
> the file is virtually
> unintelligible. however, she is able to visually
> read it on the screen. She
> uses the hp scan program because she says the
> openbook or kurzweil program
> does not handle the material well at all. i know
> there will be some scanning
> errors. but she recently scanned two volumes of a
> documetn, and while she
> can read it i cannot. can anyone share their
> scanning experiencces with
> legal transcripts if any? thanks.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:12:21 -0500
> From: "Frye, Dan" <DFrye at nfb.org>
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Need Help
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List"
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> Michelle:
>
> Please don't misunderstand my following comments. I
> am absolutely
> empathetic with the frustration, desperation, and
> discrimination we as
> blind people often experience when searching for
> employment. Many of us
> who are blind, though, spend months, if not years,
> looking for work. It
> remains the rare exception--justifiable or not--that
> a blind graduate
> from any program walks right out of school and steps
> into a position. I
> doubt that anybody on this list can offer you much
> more help than to
> lend a supportive ear and encourage you to take
> responsibility for
> accessing all of the avenues for employment that any
> graduate of law
> school would ordinarily tap, job Websites,
> classified adds, career
> counseling centers associated with your law school,
> internship
> opportunities that may ultimately turn into fulltime
> employment chances,
> personal and professional networking, etc. I've
> known two significant
> spans of unemployment in my life. One lasted for
> three years immediately
> after law school; the second consumed almost five
> months. My job
> searching exercise became a more than eight-hour a
> day process. It's
> tough, but yours is not an isolated experience.
> Anybody who tells you
> otherwise is being either disingenuous or has known
> a truly exceptional
> experience. Other than moral support, your inquiry
> will be best
> acknowledged on the NFB employment listserv where
> job opportunities are
> advertised. People here will only be able to offer
> these types of
> general suggestions, presumably all of which you
> know and have tried
> already. If you haven't tried these suggestions
> already, you're probably
> not ready to find work. Finally, as chafing and
> unjust as it may seem,
> my one suggestion for your consideration is that you
> may have to aim for
> more modest professional goals than you originally
> expected to realize
> Simply as a means of getting your foot in the paid
> employment door. Of
> course, this advice also must be balanced as
> agreeing to take something
> too diminished may harm your chances for upward
> mobility.
> Congratulations on passing the Georgia Bar.
>
>
> *******************
> Daniel B. Frye, JD.
> Manager of Affiliate Action--Advocacy and Training
> National Federation of the Blind
> Department of Affiliate Action
> 1800 Johnson Street
> Baltimore, Maryland 21230
> Telephone: (410) 659-9314 Ext. 2208
> Cell: (410) 241-7006
> Fax: (410) 659-6893
> Email: dfrye at nfb.org
> Website Address: www.nfb.org
> "Voice of the Nation's Blind"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of M T
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 3:11 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: [blindlaw] Need Help
>
> Hi All,
> I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful
> Thanksgiving. I need some help.
> I am still looking for a job. I have passed the
> Georgia Bar and I was
> sworn in about 2 weeks ago. I thought that potential
> employers would
> begin to take me seriously, but some still have
> there doubts as to
> whether a blind person can make it practicing law.
> If anyone has any
> contacts that I could talk to I would greatly
> appreciate it. I just want
> a chance to show people that I can do it. I am
> interested in the areas
> of Disability Law, Special Education and Civil
> Rights.
> Please, if any one knows someone that might be
> willing to give me a
> chance I will be so grateful. I just want to help
> others navigate
> through some of the hurdles that I have overcome, if
> there is some one
> out there that can assist me please contact me.
> Thanks. Have a wonderful
> Holiday Season.
>
> Best,
> Michelle
>
> --
> Michelle Tarley, J.D., University of Georgia School
> of Law
>
> "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"
> --
> Helen Keller
> _______________________________________________
> blindlaw mailing list
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:26:16 +0000
> From: A S <booboobuttken at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Need Help
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
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>
>
> Hi Michelle -
> Can you please sen me an email about this of list?
> Thanks.
> Annette
> kennybbbut at bellsouth.net
> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:10:39 -0500
> > From: mtarley at gmail.com
> > To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> > Subject: [blindlaw] Need Help
> >
> > Hi All,
> > I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful
> Thanksgiving. I need some
> > help. I am still looking for a job. I have passed
> the Georgia Bar and
> > I was sworn in about 2 weeks ago. I thought that
> potential employers
> > would begin to take me seriously, but some still
> have there doubts as
> > to whether a blind person can make it practicing
> law. If anyone has
> > any contacts that I could talk to I would greatly
> appreciate it. I
> > just want a chance to show people that I can do
> it. I am interested in
> > the areas of Disability Law, Special Education and
> Civil Rights.
> > Please, if any one knows someone that might be
> willing to give me a
> > chance I will be so grateful. I just want to help
> others navigate
> > through some of the hurdles that I have overcome,
> if there is some one
> > out there that can assist me please contact me.
> Thanks. Have a
> > wonderful Holiday Season.
> >
> > Best,
> > Michelle
> >
> > --
> > Michelle Tarley, J.D., University of Georgia
> School of Law
> >
> > "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"
> > --
> Helen Keller
> > _______________________________________________
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