The articles listed on this page — about Structured Negotiation and the legal side of digital accessibility — were first published in online or print publications other than this website. If you are interested in having Lainey write for your publication, please contact her.
The primary platform for Lainey Feingold’s articles is this website. You can find links and short descriptions to over 300 posts, organized by subject matter, through the Topics Page. You can find links and short descriptions of all posts in chronological order on the Articles Page. Or you can visit the Archives.
And of course, Lainey’s principle writing is her book, Structured Negotiation, A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits.
Lainey Feingold’s Writings First Published in Other Publications
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Five Things Every Lawyer Needs To Know About Digital Accessibility
Lainey wrote this article for Law Technology Today, an online publication of the American Bar Association, that offers “practical guidance for the present and sensible strategies for the future.” What could be more practical and sensible than a digital strategy for lawyers and their clients that includes accessibility? In 2021, three years after this article was published, Law Technology Today identified it as number one on its “top posts about digital and web accessibility.”
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ODR for All: Digital Accessibility and Disability Accommodations in Online Dispute Resolution
This article was co-written by Lainey Feingold and Hamline University School of Law professor David Larson. Online Dispute Resolution is a growing phenomenon around the globe. As Lainey and David write in this piece: “The promise of online dispute resolution (ODR) depends on accessibility. Without it, ODR cannot meet the needs of its stakeholders. Why? Because accessibility and ODR have one very important thing in common: they are both about serving the needs of people.”
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Technology Vendor Contracts and Accessibility: What Every Business Lawyer Should Know
This article describes smart practices for making sure procurement policies and vendor contracts include accessibility. It was written with co-author Eve Hill of the civil rights firm Brown, Goldstein, & Levy.
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Protecting digital accessibility ensures equal rights for disabled people
Lainey wrote this article for the national magazine of the American Bar Association. “As the world has moved online, so have disability rights.”
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Shifting from Fear to Motivation when Talking about Digital Accessibility Law
This is Lainey Feingold’s contribution to the 2017 “advent calendar of accessibility” — “24 days of digital accessibility gifts during the season of giving and sharing.”
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Can Lawyers Be Advocates and Peacemakers?
“When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The litigation hammer turns too many disputes into potential lawsuits; a conflict to be won or lost. Structured Negotiation is another tool in service of our clients’ goals, one that allows lawyers to be advocates and peacemakers.”
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What Can Structured Negotiation Offer the Business Attorney? A Lot!
Lainey writes about all that Structured Negotiation has to offer the business lawyer — there are many advantages to avoiding the expense and conflict of litigation and preserving relationships that Structured Negotiation makes possible.
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Structured Negotiation, Collaborative Law’s First Cousin
Collaborative Law and Structured Negotiation are ways to resolve legal claims with cooperation and communication instead of conflict and run-away costs. In this article Lainey introduces Structured Negotiation to the Collaborative Law community.
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Stuck in the Middle with Everyone
This article explores the possibility that peacemaking is not just for neutrals: Advocates can be peacemakers too. “Perhaps the “middle” is not only a place for a skilled neutral seeking compromise from reluctant advocates. Instead, maybe the “middle” is the common ground all parties seek in a dispute. As an advocate, my role is to help the parties get there, never losing sight of my clients’ goals.”
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The Gig Economy: Making it Available to Everyone
This article was originally published in Volume 13 No. 2 (Winter 2017) of SciTech Lawyer, a print and online publication of the Section of Science & Technology Law of the American Bar Association. The issue was devoted to legal subjects arising from the gig economy. Lainey wrote about how the new economic structures need digital accessibility and other disability rights issues.
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60 Minutes Slams ADA, Boosts Trump Agenda
In 2015 Anderson Cooper interviewed Lainey Feingold and Linda Dardarian for a Sixty Minutes episode about the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He seemed excited about Structured Negotiation and how collaboration had achieved big accessibility results for blind people. Hours were spent, but the anniversary came and went without the episode airing. Then, after the 2016 election 60 Minutes ran it’s ADA story — about lawyers taking advantage of the law and disabled clients. No mention of Structured Negotiation.
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Is Your Law Firm’s Website Accessible?
Law firm websites need to be accessible to everyone – including people with disabilities. It’s good for business, it’s good for all users, and it’s the law. Lainey explains web accessibility for lawyers and law firms.
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Justice Delayed in Federal Disability Regulations
The second article in Lainey’s 2-part series on regulatory delay, focusing on accessibility at the movies and medical equipment that works for everyone. Federal regulations matter, and this article describes why.
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Federal Disability Regulations Face Historic Delays
Delayed federal disability regulations is justice denied. Lainey writes about unconscionable delays to regulations about safe streets, web accessibility, and federal procurement.
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New Law Office Technology for Everyone
Lainey explores the importance of accessibility for all law office technology, with a focus on digital signature programs.