ABOUT
Jason Goitia is active in the Lawyers with Disabilities Involvement Subcommittee of the ABA Business Law Section, was chair of the Subcommittee until April 2016, and is a former Commissioner of the ABA Commission on Disability Rights. Jason is a current Commissioner of the ABA Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights & Responsibilities. He has a Hispanic background and grew up in Tampa, Florida. He received his undergraduate degree, with honors, from the University of Florida and his law degree from the University of Chicago. He was an attorney with Mayer Brown in Chicago, Illinois, practicing finance and securities law, and then worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. While at Goldman Sachs, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Subsequent to the diagnosis, he started his own law firm, and was named one of eight innovative attorneys on an International list by a leader in the eLawyering movement who was an eLawyering expert at Stanford University Law School. In truth, the changes he used were based on realities he directly experienced. The improvements showed him the benefits of disability inclusion.
