Comments are due on September 2d to stop a republican attack on a longstanding rule in the United States called Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 503 helps disabled people get hired by federal contractors. Here's what the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) says abo| Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Lainey’s Introduction As the republican attacks on rights, benefits and democracy continue in the United States, resistance takes many forms. One problem in the country right now is that main stream media normalizes trump and republican activity, as if we are not creeping toward fascism with every act of cruelty. I believe that any action,…| Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Sassy Outwater-Wright died on July 12, 2025 of cancer. She was the self-described Tumor Killer Girl in her fierce, honest, and often heart wrenching writing about the disease that ultimately took her life. As she said during a 2022 public radio interview “My superhero name is Tumor Killer Girl.| Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Tomorrow, June 28, 2025 is the implementation date for the European Accessibility Act and the laws of 27 EU member states making it a reality. These laws are poised to fundamentally advance digital accessibility across the European Union (EU) and beyond. I wouldn't be LFLegal if I didn't have a| Law Office of Lainey Feingold
My book, Structured Negotiation, a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits (2d ed 2021) is now available in Spanish thanks to translation done by The Collaborative Law Association of the Basque Country (Asociación de Derecho Colaborativo de Euskadi). The Spanish edition is titled Negociación Estructurada: Una alternativa ganadora a los Tribunales. It will be officially announced on…| Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Lainey's introduction On April 17, 2025 I joined 60 people in Tokyo for their monthly digital accessibility MeetUp, A11y Tokyo. (A-eleven-Y is short for accessibility because there are 11 letters between the A and the Y.) Meeting accessibility champions in Tokyo, sharing what's happening| Law Office of Lainey Feingold
For over forty years the United States has had regulations that say new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities if the building is built by an organization that receives federal funds. Now the trump administration is taking the first steps to undo this long history of access in the built environment. Jump to:…| Law Office of Lainey Feingold
On April 12, 2025 the top story on the Palo Alto (California) online news site was "Silicon Valley Crosswalk Buttons Apparently Hacked to Imitate Musk, Zuckerberg Voices" It told the story, covered by other media too, of how someone hacked into audible pedestrian signals so they broadcast messages| Law Office of Lainey Feingold
On March 13, 2025 I offered the United States digital accessibility legal update as a featured presentation at the 40th annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference in Anaheim California. I began attending the conference 25 years ago, and this year was one of many times I'd given the legal update.| Law Office of Lainey Feingold
The new year brought weclomed digital accessibility news from the United States Federal Trade Commission, known as the FTC. The FTC is a federal (national) government agency whose mission is "protecting the public from deceptive or unfair business practices and from unfair methods of competition."| Law Office of Lainey Feingold