the federal legislation and administrative law clinic which represented clients such as catholic charities u.s.a., a national disability rights network and the battle and center for mental health law. she also founded and directed workplace flexibility 2010, a policy enterprise focused on finding common ground between employers and employees on workplace flexibility issues. as legislative counsel at the american civil liberties union from 1980-1991 a period during which chai and my tenure of love, chai played a leading role in helping to draft and negotiate a groundbreaking americans with disability act of 1990. and i also the opportunity to work with chai in my role as president of the leadership conference when we were working to get congress to pass the americans with disabilities act amendments in 2008 which overturn supreme court decisions that had reduced protections were certain people with disabilities, including people with diabetes, epilepsy heart disease, mental disabilities and cancer, who were originally intended to be covered by the ada. in addition, chai helped to draft the employ