Jun 042006
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released a fact sheet providing guidance to employers attorneys with disabilities. Most of the information is on basic concepts related to the ADA, like what kinds of questions a hiring committee can ask of candidates with disabilities and the types of reasonable accommodations that may be requested by attorneys with disabilities. The authors of the fact sheet have included some well-conceived examples to illustrate how the ADA applies in a legal employment setting. It’s good to see the EEOC encouraging the legal profession to become more open to people with disabilities, but I’d also like to see more concerted efforts on the part of employers to recruit and hire attorneys with disabilities, particularly in the private sector.
