Disabled attorneys find job discrimination, says survey
NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2004 --An online survey by the New York State Bar's Committee on Legal Professionals with Disabilities found that disabled lawyers face high unemployment, a shortage of services, resistance to reasonable accommodations and "a surplus of skepticism" -- 13 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The survey was conducted in a six-month period last year. Anil Mehta, an attorney who lost his arm in an accident, told a reporter that on the phone, firms would sound encouraging, but "you meet them at the door, and they say, `We have filled that position.'"