‘Visual impairments in employment and the legal sector’, A disAbility Legal Network (DLN) event, hosted by Eversheds Sutherland on Thursday 25 April at 2pm via Zoom. 

This webinar focused on the topic of visual impairments in employment and the legal sector. We heard from two employment integration officers in Vision Ireland Martina Melvan and Shane Merritt, who discussed vision impairments in the workplace and workplace integration, assistive technology, reasonable accommodations and more.

Following that, we were joined by Ryan Kelly, a senior legal counsel for Bauer Media Group and a member of the disabled solicitors’ network advisory committee in the UK, and Sharon Grennan, a Knowledge lawyer in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and is secretary of the Society of Visually Impaired Lawyers. This panel discussed how they navigated their careers with a visual impairment, and how our colleagues can be allies and support people with visual impairments.

The webinar proved to be a very interesting and informative discussion. If you can, we invite you to please watch and enjoy this webinar kindly hosted by Eversheds Sutherland LLP, a link will be uploaded in the coming weeks. A cover page of a slideshow used during the presentation. The slide has an image of men sitting on chairs in a circle. The slide features text stating 'Visual Impairment in the Workplace' 'S. Merritt & M. Melvan – Workplace Integration & Partner Officers'. The Vision Ireland logo is in the bottom right corner of the image. PowerPoint Presentation from Visual Impairment in the Workplace Event

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