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To maintain a website, together with an email mailing list on which members can exchange views and information of common interest. To ensure that members have ready access to periodicals such as the New Law Journal, LNTV publications on DVD, Times Law Reports, and to lobby legal publishers to ensure that databases available to the legal profession in general are fully accessible to visually impaired practitioners in particular. To consider and respond to government and other consultations on proposed changes in substantive law and in practice, and other issues likely to affect members in pursuing their careers. To assist law students, trainees and newly-qualified practitioners by putting them in touch with members of the society able and willing to offer mentoring and/or advice on how they might tackle practical problems arising from visual impairment in the context of their careers in the law. To maintain a list of firms who have shown willingness to offer work experience and/or training opportunities to visually impaired students, and to make the list available to members. To be a focus to answer enquiries made about careers for visually impaired people in the law; about the Society's members, their professional specialists; and generally to act as a source of information about the professional activities of members. To foster relations with and if appropriate to seek representation on bodies concerned with areas of legal practice and to appoint representatives to such bodies. To ensure that members have, when needed, information about how to update and/or improve their IT skills. To assist members to obtain and to continue to receive access to work and similar grants, where appropriate. To negotiate with examining bodies if additional time for sitting examinations, or other modifications to their requirements, are reasonably needed by visually impaired candidates.
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