Lainey Feingold
Law Office of Lainey Feingold / Disability Rights Lawyer, Author
Pronouns: She/Her
Lainey is a disability rights lawyer and an author. For twenty-five years she has focused on technology and information access issues for blind people. Lainey worked on the first legal agreements in the country about Talking ATMs and web access. Instead of filing lawsuits, Lainey uses Structured Negotiation. It is a strategy that focuses on problem-solving. With this method, she brings together disabled people, businesses and governments. Together, they work to make tech available to everyone. Lainey is a public speaker who has been honored for her work.
She is the author of Structured Negotiation, a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits, available in digital and print formats and in Bookshare. First published in 2016, the second edition, with new content including a foreword by Haben Girma, was published in October, 2021.
Read more about Lainey’s axe-con talk: “The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape“
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