Disability Accommodations in Law School 

Thank you for your representative advocacy. As someone with partial blindness, I appreciated this video very much.

As Dyslexic It has been quite good that I have extra time on exams or extra time for handouts that needs to be returned to professor before deadline.

This brings me a lot of peace as someone with a physical disability and ambitions probably way bigger than they should be! It’s nice to know it’s a field with growing diversity, though my accommodations are fairly simple so I’m not too worried about not getting what I need, simple things like I can’t stand on my feet for long, nor can I move quickly or for long. I can’t see either being an issue for me, but I’m very glad for others who need a little bit more of a hand than myself. Keep up the great work!

Great to hear as a mother of a special needs child who son was diagnosed as on the Autism Spectrum ( although the doctor had said he was borderline Autistic) and someone who didn’t go to school because she barely passed high school math ; and also who’s soon to be step daughter is legally blind it’s good to hear.

Very informative video Professor Baez. Yet the great divide still exists within the legal education arena. Let us imagine a student with a legitimate disability. Such a student could be afforded an accommodation. Let us for simplicity sake suggest a reasonable accommodation of time and a half or double time is granted. For a typical three hour law school exam, one could then urge the accommodated examination time may result as four and a half hours to six hours in length. Let us imagine a three hour law school exam in contracts. While the non-accommodated student need only remain "fresh" with contract law knowledge for three hours, the accommodated student need maintain a similar "freshness" for four and one half to six hours. One could suggest the disadvantaged student remains penalized because of a legitimate disability. Now imagine this same student decides to sit for some bar examination. In a jurisdiction that runs a 3 day bar exam schedule, any of a dozen to fifteen subject areas may be routinely tested. A common time extension seems to result with one section of the exam per day. Quickly then, a three day exam becomes a six day extravaganza. Dont worry about Saturday or Sunday services as those are out the window. Thus a non-accommodated student need only be "fresh" for three days. However, the accommodated student need be "fresh" for six days as a penalty for simply being a legitimately disabled student. I respectfully suggest the above as a mere suggestion of the extreme bias and preference that is plainly so evident in the legal profession. Maybe one day, faculty of the legal education institutions may simply band together and collectively address this lingering failure within the greater legal community. Bob...

Thank you so much for caring

As dyslexic extra time made sense for me as in school as I think in picture and to let my brain to translate.

Thank you so much for this video professor.

Having my first baby in September, in what will be my 2nd-ish semester of 2L. I might actually do some content about being pregnant in law school, but would love to hear your perspective. My professors and administration have been way more supportive than I ever expected!!!!

I like this it’s really helpful 👍🏼

I have a disability as well

Thank you so Much sir 💙💙😊😊🙏

Your videos are awesome 😊

CAN YOU DO THE BEST EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN BEFORE APPLYING TO LAW SCHOOL. NOBODY'S DONE IT YET.

I need all information I need this year's

If I requested accomodations and apparently the school said 3 requested accomodations were proper but one was not proper therefore the lawschool denied all accomodations. Also my dr confirmed one physical disability but the school said the second disability wasn't confirmed therefore they denied all of my accomodation requests. Was that improper denial of ada accomodations when it's a completely virtual law school and all accomodations would not have have been a hardship to the school?

Should I be afraid to add about my disability in my Law School applications? I was told that it might reduce my chances on getting accepted

How can someone ask a lawyer that you want to work for them, whether as a job or as a volunteer? Please help.

Sir , if I graduate with my bachelor's in politics science early (in 3 years rather than 4) by doing extra course work, can I still go to law school directly after I get the degree without taking a gap year or finishing the extra 4th year.

M 90% disabled,m eligible for llb?