Samuel H. DeShazer is in law practice with the Louisville office of Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, PSC. His primary practice areas are management, labor relations and personnel law. DeShazer has presented a number of seminars to attorneys and employer groups relating to the Americans with Disabilities Act. He is on the faculty and planning committee of the ADA Mediation Institute, a program of the Access Center partnership and the University of Louisville Labor-Management Center.

Judy Cohen is executive director of Access Resources, a New York firm specializing in ADA mediation and training. She has published and presented extensively in the area of ADA and alternative dispute resolution. She is a mediator in the U.S. Department of Justice and the New York State Division of Human Rights Down State Mediation Program. She is on the labor arbitration panel of the American Arbitration Association, and is an adjunct member of the ADR Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.