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Oct. 27, 2025

Big law ramps up exclusion of attorneys with disabilities

October's National Disability Employment Awareness Month should prompt Big Law to examine how its practices continue to marginalize disabled professionals from meaningful opportunities, power and pay.

Areta Guthrey

Executive Director
The Disability Information Network

Email: akguthrey@yahoo.com

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Big law ramps up exclusion of attorneys with disabilities
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October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). It's a time for employers to take a look at their hiring and retention practices for workers experiencing disabilities.

This month, it's time to acknowledge that Big Law's policies effectively exclude many people with disabilities from their ranks. This means that we are excluded from sharing in the power and financial rewards given to others $95

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