Law school sued for not helping a grad who can't type very well!

A Pennsylvania man is suing the University of Michigan Law School for failing to make special accommodations for his admittedly poor typing skills. Adrian Zachariasewycz, 40, who graduated from the law school in 2004 with a "B'' average but says in his lawsuit that on certain exams he received "borderline failing grades'' because he couldn't type as much in the allotted time as other students. The U-M Law School Graduate was also fired from a Wilmington Delaware law firm, where he worked as a summer intern. He is suing that law firm because he claims they impeded his efforts to obtain employment after he was fired. Zachariasewycz claims that his 2.996 grade point average doesn't interest employers and that without this typing deficit on certain exams, claims it would have been about 3.4. Gerald Schorin, spokesman for the Law School in a statement said that students can choose for themselves whether to write their answers by hand or whether to type on a keyboard. He added that "Beyond the typing policy at issue in the lawsuit, every effort is made to ensure fairness and equitability in the grading and evaluation process.'' Zachariasewycz said he was never warned by U-M that he would need typing skills and it never occurred to him to learn to type before entering law school. He said he consistently scored in the top half of the class on exams that didn't require rapid typing. Zachariasewycz seeks an unspecified amount in monetary damages and wants the law school to re-evaluate his exam scores as well as provide a letter or make a verbal statement to prospective employers stating that his typing was a factor in his exam scores andlow grade point average. Zachariasewycz said that he "paid a lot of money to go to law school, interrupted his career, worked very hard, and got a big zero out of it.'' Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute which is a conservative think tank in New York City, and founder of overlawyered.com, posted a comment about the case and other lawsuits he believes have "eyebrow-raising potential.'' Olson wrote, "It's hard to figure out what's been done to him that's unlawful,'' who at first glance of the lawsuit thought that Zachariasewycz was physically disabled and that his rights as a disabled person were some how violated, "But it looks like he's just an ordinary bad typist like a lot of the rest of us.''