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  • Quoted in High Court’s Title VII Ruling May Boost Workers In ADA Suits, Law360 article by Anne Cullen, April 26, 2024 (subscription required).
  • Quoted in Website Accessibility Problems Create Legal Peril for Online Retailers, Digital Commerce 360, article by James Melton, January 14, 2022.
  • Mahanoy Area School District blog entry named a Top 10 blog entry on Lexblog for week ending July 16, 2021.
  • Quoted in “Naomi Osaka Took a Mental-Health Break. Could the Law Allow Other Athletes to Follow?,” article by Louise Radnofsky and Rachel Bachman, June 10, 2021 WSJ (paywall).
  • Blog entry receives Manager’s Choice Designation from the Education Law Association’s LinkedIn Group. “ADA and Mediation/Arbitration: Things to Think About.” William Goren. Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) blog, January 6, 2014.
  • “The Legal Pad” on H.U.R. Voices, SiriusXM Channel 141 interview. Listen live Wednesday, February 12, 2013, at 7:30 am. (Re-airs at Saturday, February 15, 3:30 pm, and Monday, February 17, 9:00 am.)
    Host James E. McCollum, Jr., Esquire, interviews William Goren.
  • “The Legal Pad” on H.U.R. Voices, SiriusXM Channel 141 interview. Listen live Wednesday, January 29, 2014, at 7:30 am. (Re-airs at Saturday, February 1, 3:30 pm, and Monday, February 3, 9:00 am.)
    Host James E. McCollum, Jr., Esquire, interviews William Goren.
  • “The Legal Pad” on H.U.R. Voices, SiriusXM Channel 141 interview. Listen live Wednesday, October 23, 2013, at 7:30 am. (Re-airs at Saturday, October 26, 3:30 pm, and Monday, October 28, 9:00 am.)
    Host James E. McCollum, Jr., Esquire, interviews William Goren.
  • Deaf woman’s eBay complaint highlights dispute over Web access for disabled, CNN, January 10, 2013.
    “The ADA was signed in 1990. The Internet didn’t really start going until the 1990s,” said William D. Goren, a Decatur, Georgia, attorney who specializes in cases involving the federal law. “This is a topic we’re going to have to be watching. This is not going away.”
  • Panelist, Reflections on the Development of Disability as a Diversity Concern in the Legal Profession, Law Practice Today (the Monthly Webzine of the ABA Law Practice Management Section), July, 2013.
  • Blog entry highlight, Impact of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar on the ADA, “Friday Roundup.” Allison Trzop, SCOTUSBlog, June 28, 2013.
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Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act, Fourth Edition

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William Goren is one of the country’s foremost authorities on the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Since 1990, he has been advising on ADA compliance as both an attorney and professor—of which during his time as a full-time academic at various institutions in Chicago, he won numerous teaching awards and achieved tenure.

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