Attorneys With Disabilities Claim Role in Big Law Diversity Push

Then-Cornell Law student Angela Winfield thought her interview with a prospective Big Law employer was going well until he asked her whether being blind would interfere with serving clients.

“I was really excited, and I was interviewing with large law firms. And during one of those interviews, an attorney actually said to me, ‘You’re saying all the right things, you have all the right credentials, but I just don’t know how you could do this job with the disability that you have,’” said Winfield, who is now the chief diversity officer for the Law School Admission Council.

“He just ...