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Reasonable Accommodation in Cyberspace: Lawsuits challenge websites to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act
A growing number of lawsuits contend that commercial websites qualify as places of public accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and that the ADA therefore requires businesses to take reasonable efforts to make their websites accessible to disabled users. In federal court in...
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At Allstate, the Future Is Now: One GC set out to create nothing less than the law department of the future
Four years ago, Susie Lees became general counsel at Allstate. She had been with the law department for 24 years, and she saw that it was time for major change. Costs were too high, and operations were inefficient. Thus began an odyssey as Lees set out to create the Law Department of the Future (...
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Backstory: Rebel with a Cause A talk with Ben W. Heineman, Jr.
For Ben W. Heineman, Jr., the heart of the matter is tension. In his nearly 20 years as the top legal executive at General Electric, Heineman redefined the role of the GC in the modern corporation. The key to a GC’s success, he says in his indispensable new book, “The Inside Counsel...
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