Treating your colleagues with disabilities in a respectful, thoughtful and professional manner.
All lawyers share responsibility to make our faculties, courts and law practices truly accessible.
Here is an emerging answer to that question, taken from suggestions made by lawyers interviewed by National and from articles written by Dalhousie law professor Dianne Pothier on her personal experience with visual impairment. Do not discriminate on the basis of disability in hiring, advancement or assigning complex files. Abandon standards that are blatantly unreasonable when applied to a disabled lawyer. In the early 1980s, formerly practising Ontario lawyer Robert Webber was just starting out. Webber is paraplegic and uses a manual wheelchair, so before he was scheduled to appear in appeal court, he arranged with a court clerk to wear a modified outfit.