Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Disability Rights Legal Advocacy

This is a listing of unusual and legalistic terms and phrases used on this website that may not appear in standard on-line dictionaries. Useful dictionaries include Wiktionary and the Nolo Press Legal Glossary. If you have questions about anything posted on this site, please contact us.

ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP

Attorney-client relationship means the relationship that people have with a lawyer when that lawyer is doing work for that person or might do work for that person. There are many ethical and other rules that apply to an attorney-client relationship. One of the most important rules is that information is kept confidential.

BINDING SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT

Binding Settlement Agreement as that term is used on this website is a written document that resolves a dispute between two or more parties. The term “binding” is used to indicate that the people or organizations signing the document are bound (required) to carry it out.

CAPTCHA

CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Human Apart”. It is a security measure designed to prevent computers from hacking into a site. A visual CAPTCHA has distorted letters or numbers that a computer user is asked to copy into a text box. A person with a visual impairment cannot read a visual CAPTCHA and is therefore unable to access content or services on a site with a visual CAPTCHA. Alternatives to visual CAPTCHAs that are accessible to many people with disabilities include audio CAPTCHAs (with information provided through the computer or over a telephone line) and security measures that require users to answer a simple logic or mathematical question (such as “how do you spell red”). Read more about Audio CAPTCHA.

CLAIMANT

Claimant is a term used in the Structured Negotiations process to refer to individuals or organizations that have a legal issue that they seek to resolve using the Structured Negotiations process. The equivalent of Claimant in the litigation process is “plaintiff”.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION METHOD

A Dispute Resolution Method is a process that people use to settle legal differences. Filing a lawsuit and engaging in litigation is a common way for people to resolve legal claims. Structured Negotiations, practiced by Lainey Feingold and her Co-counsel, is an alternative dispute resolution method. Examples of other dispute resolution methods include arbitration and mediation.

PERSON WITH A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

As used in the Structured Negotiations process, a person with a visual impairment is any person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits him or her in the major life activity of seeing.

SIMPLIFIED SUMMARY

As used on this website, a Simplified Summary is a short summary of information on a web page provided when that page requires a reading ability higher than lower secondary education level (9th grade). The Simplified Summary does not require reading ability higher than 9th grade, after proper names and titles have been removed. The Simplified Summaries on LFLegal.com are designed to meet the requirements of Success Criteria 3.1.5 of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.

STANDARD PRINT CREDIT REPORT

A standard print credit report is the credit report (also called a credit disclosure) that is mailed in print format by a credit reporting agency to a consumer requesting the report. A credit report is a document that has financial information related to a person’s credit history. As a result of the Accessible Credit Reports Agreement negotiated using Structured Negotiations, in 2008 credit reports will also be available in Braille, Large Print, audio, and in an accessible format on-line.

STRUCTURED NEGOTIATIONS

Structured Negotiations are a way of solving legal issues without litigation. Read more about Structured Negotiations on the Frequently Asked Questions page.

STYLE SHEET

Style Sheets are a method of presenting and displaying content on a web page. Read more information about Style Sheets.

TALKING ATM

A Talking ATM is an ATM that delivers all information and instructions necessary to use the machine audibly and privately through a headphone jack on the face of the unit. A Talking ATM has a tactile keypad so a user can independently and privately enter all required information and perform all transactions necessary to use the device. Read more about Talking ATMs.