Comments on: “Denial of Disabled Lawyer’s Request For ‘Shadow’ Assistant Wasn’t Bias” https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/04/denial-disabled-lawyers-request-shadow-assistant-wasnt-bias/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Boblipton https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/04/denial-disabled-lawyers-request-shadow-assistant-wasnt-bias/comment-page-1/#comment-280524 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:50:37 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=45330#comment-280524 Your argument contains a false assumption, Jack. You assume that an employer hires an employee to perform work. That is not the government’s understanding and you need to get with the program.

Bob

]]> By: KB https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/04/denial-disabled-lawyers-request-shadow-assistant-wasnt-bias/comment-page-1/#comment-280515 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:24:22 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=45330#comment-280515 Being a non-lawyer type, it would seem he’s not qualified for the job he was hired for if he needs an assistant to perform it for him.

And let’s not forget the vicious circle Jack mentions.

]]> By: Jack Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/04/denial-disabled-lawyers-request-shadow-assistant-wasnt-bias/comment-page-1/#comment-280483 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:22:25 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=45330#comment-280483 It is illegal to discriminate against the handicapped and an employer is obliged to make reasonable accommodations for them. If it is a reasonable accommodation to hire a personal assistant for a handicapped lawyer, then that personal assistant may well himself be handicapped and therefore entitled to a personal assistant, who is also potentially handicapped and therefore entitled to a personal assistant, who might also be handicapped and hence entitled to a personal assistant, until the whole organization runs into the Amway problem: Nobody wants to do the actual work, everybody wants to extend his downline.

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