First Stipend Awarded to Law Student Kendra J. Muller
Howard Maycon (Office Managing Partner – Los Angeles) and Kevin Bush (Vice Chair, Subrogation & Recovery, West Region) award the firm supported Disabilityrightsnow.com first stipend to 3rd year law student Kendra J. Muller to pay for her bar review course.
Howard Maycon (Office Managing Partner – Los Angeles) and Kevin Bush (Vice Chair, Subrogation & Recovery, West Region) award the firm supported Disabilityrightsnow.com first stipend to 3rd year law student Kendra J. Muller to pay for her bar review course.
Kendra received the award based on her work with DRN and the Different Abilities Group subcommittee of the San Diego County Bar Association on addressing the lack of handicap accessible bathrooms in the Schwartz Courthouse and also drafting proposed legislation/regulations and training guidelines for airline personnel to minimize airline damage to assist devices. Senator Feinstein’s office is seeking funding 2022 so the build out of the accessible bathrooms happens in 2023 at the Schwarz courthouse and is in discussions with her Senate colleagues on addressing damage to assist devices as drafted by Kendra.
For those interested in supporting the firm supported Disabilityrightsnow.com mission to advance opportunities for people with disabilities entering the legal field (at all levels secretary, paralegal, management and attorneys) please consider donating by clicking here. If looking for an incentive to consider a donation, Disabilitryrightsnow.com has collaborated with James Coffee on a limited edition t-shirt with the iconic DRN image on the back paired with a 12oz bag of their Direct Trade Costa Rican "Alto el Vapor." Click here to buy now.
Disability Rights Now Collaboration with James Coffee
Disability Rights Now Collaboration with James Coffee
Available now! James Coffee T-Shirt with iconic DRN image on the back combined with a coffee package now available to raise funds to support DRN’s mission to advance opportunities for people with disabilities entering the legal field.
Purchase here: https://jamescoffeeco.com/products/drn-shirt-and-coffee-package
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DisabilityRightsNow.com Launched to Raise Funds for Historically Excluded People with Disabilities estimated at 26% in U.S. from the Legal Field to Assist Entering the Practice
San Diego, California - DisabilityRightsNow.com (DRN) an approved 501(c)(3) nonprofit created to address the underrepresentation of people with disabilities in the legal field has launched.
San Diego, California - DisabilityRightsNow.com (DRN) an approved 501(c)(3) nonprofit created to address the underrepresentation of people with disabilities in the legal field has launched. According to the American Bar Association Profile of the Legal Profession 2021, roughly 1% of attorneys in American Law firms have a disability. Yet according to the CDC Sixty one million (61,000,000) Americans or 26 percent of the U.S. population has a disability.
Historical discrimination of people with disabilities being excluded from the legal field is a dark chapter in the history of the U.S. legal system. This is especially true because the American with Disabilities Act is more than 30 years old now and little has changed in getting people with disabilities employed in the legal field. The overall treatment of people with disabilities in the U.S. includes forced segregation, medical experiments, unequal educational opportunities and lack of reasonable accommodations in schools, colleges, law schools, law firms, government agencies and the courts.
DRN founded by disability activist Peter A. Lynch with his firm’s gracious continued support and a group of eclectic advisors to raise funds to address the lack of people with disabilities in the legal field. Kendra Muller a brilliant third year law student at USD Law who just happens to have a disability is one of the advisors for DRN.
DRN will work collaboratively with the Different Abilities Group of the San Diego Bar Association established in 2016 to seek to increase representation of people with disabilities at all levels of the legal field (receptionist, paralegal, office management, accounting, attorneys, managers, secretaries, etc.)
DRN seeks financial contributions that are tax deductible to support identified candidates seeking to work in the legal field. DRN also seeks volunteers to assist in addressing the critical underrepresentation of people with disabilities in the legal field. An entire segment of the population is excluded from the legal field and that cannot stand. Take action now at disabilityrightsnow.com