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Lawyers With Disabilities: L'Handicape C'Est Nous, Anita Bernstein
Lawyers With Disabilities: L'Handicape C'Est Nous, Anita Bernstein
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Integrating Accommodation, Elizabeth F. Emens
Integrating Accommodation, Elizabeth F. Emens
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Courts and agencies interpreting the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) generally assume that workplace accommodations benefit individual employees with disabilities and impose costs on employers and, at times, coworkers. This belief reflects a failure to recognize a key feature of ADA accommodations: their benefits to third parties. Numerous accommodations – from ramps to ergonomic furniture to telecommuting initiatives – can create benefits for coworkers, both disabled and nondisabled, as well as for the growing group of employees with impairments that are not limiting enough to constitute disabilities under the ADA. Much attention has been paid to how the integration of …