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William D. Goren provides consultation, legal research and writing and counsels on cases involving compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

The Law Office of William D. Goren, J.D., LL.M., concentrates its efforts on ADA/Rehabilitation Act training and compliance with the aim of making those laws more understandable. Author of Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act, Third Edition (published by the American Bar Association, 2010) and numerous articles on the rights of persons with disabilities, Mr. Goren has been involved with ADA/Rehabilitation Act compliance since 1990. Beyond his considerable experience with the law, he also understands what it means to have a disability as he has congenital bilateral hearing loss of 65-90 db+ mitigated by hearing aids and lip reading. For other reasons, Mr. Goren also uses voice dictation technology.

Mr. Goren efforts to make the ADA/Rehabilitation Act more understandable is aided by his many years of teaching, which he has done full time since 1999 and for which he has won numerous teaching awards. In addition to authoring an ADA book now in its third edition, Mr. Goren has written numerous articles dealing with ADA/Rehabilitation Act compliance. Mr. Goren is currently a Professor, the Program Coordinator of the Paralegal Program, and ADA Instructional Coordinator (point person for ADA compliance), at South Suburban College in South Holland and Oak Forest, Illinois.