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ADA Publications

The following books, journal articles and other publications are a selected list of works by William D. Goren, J.D., LL.M.

Books

• NEW: Understanding the Americans With Disabilities Act, Third Edition (American Bar Association, March, 2010).
  DESCRIPTION: This book, written from the perspective of a lawyer with a disability gives an easy to understand road map of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It also discusses preventive lawyering with regards to the ADA. Author William Goren has a 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.

• Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act, Second Edition (American Bar Association, August, 2006). Cited numerous times in various law review articles and Chapter 3 reprinted online: Concept of Undue Hardship and Reasonable Accommodation in the Employment Context.
• Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act: An Overview for Lawyers, January 2000, American Bar Association (Solo and Small Firm Practice Section). Cited numerous times in various law review articles.
  

Journals

Constitutional Law

• Counterpoint: Congress Did Properly Waive the States’ Sovereign Immunity in Enacting the ADA, DCBA Brief V. 13, Issue 5, pp. 6-9 (January 2001).

Preventive Law

• The Americans With Disabilities Act and the Post-Secondary Student with a Disability: A Preventive Law Approach, Preventive Law Reporter, V.20, No.1, pp. 3-6 (Summer 2001).
• Preventive Law and the ADA, Preventive Law Reporter, V.14, No.4, pp.19-20,31(Winter 1995).

Americans with Disabilities Act

• Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, 22 DCBA Brief 10 (January, 2010).
• Is Your University or College's Homepage Accessible to Prospective Students With Visual Impairments? 21 DCBA Brief 8 (November 2008).
• Checks and Balances at Work: The ADA Amendments Act of 2008, published by the Illinois State Bar Association in their June 2009 Diversity Matters publication, a publication of the Women and Minority Bar section.
• Should Your Law Firm's Internet Site Be Accessible to Persons With Disabilities?, 19 DCBA Brief 22-25 (March 2007).
• The Intersection of the ADA and SSDI and the Risks of Legal Malpractice, DCBA Brief, March, 2006.
• Much to Do About Something and Something You May not Know: The Supreme Court in Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky v. Williams and in P.G.A. Tour, Inc. v. Martin, DuPage County Bar Journal, DCBA Brief, V. 14, Issue 9, pp. 16-19 (May 2002).

Sports Law

• Flipper Flap and the ADA. December 2002 issue of the DuPage County Bar Association Journal, DCBA Brief, V. 15, Issue 4, pp. 6-8 (December 2002).
• Americans With Disabilities Act and Professional Sports: A Preventive Law approach (the Casey Martin case), Published in the Spring 1998 issue of the Preventive Law Reporter.
• On Gymnastics and Cheerleading: An Instructive ADA Case, XV The Sports Lawyer 3-4 (Spring 1997).

Education

• Accepted for publication, Prelaw Advising: We Owe It to Our Students to Get It Right, to be published in the spring issue of The Educator, a peer-reviewed journal for paralegal educators published by the American Association for Paralegal Education.
• Paralegal Programs and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Some Traps, The Paralegal Educator, V. 21, No. 1, at pp. 13-14, 16 (Spring 2007)
• ADA and Paralegal Education: Current Issues and Future Dilemmas, The Paralegal Educator, v.15, No.2, at pp. 11-12 (August 2001).
• The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, it's Interrelationship to the Americans With Disabilities Act and Preventive Law, Florida Bar Journal, July-August 1997 issue. Cited numerous times in various law reviews.

Mediation

• Americans with Disabilities Act: Tips for the Advocate, published on the Internet at Mediate.com.

Presentations

• "The Americans With Disabilities Act and Its Amendments and How It Affects the Postsecondary Public Institution," presented for faculty development day, March 31, 2011
• "The Americans with Disabilities Act and Hot Issues You Should Be Aware Of," presented as panelist, American Bar Association teleconference, February 23, 2011.
• "The Americans with Disabilities Act and its Amendments: Hot Issues and Things to Watch For" to be presented as a panelist to the DuPage County Bar Association May 5, 2011.
• "The Amendments to the Americans With Disabilities Act," Hot Topics, and Trends," presented to Civil Practice Committee of the DuPage County Bar Association, April 2010.
  
• "The Amendments to the Americans With Disabilities Act," Hot Employment Topics, and Trends," presented as a CLE to be distributed by Apex Corporation, March 2010.        
• "The Amendments to the Americans With Disabilities Act," presented to the Chicago Bar Association's labor and employment committee, March 2010
  

Magazines

• The Long Job Search of the Disabled: Affirmative Action and the ADA, Legal Times, October 30, 1995; Texas Lawyer, June 24, 1996.