Disability won't stop this student from pursuing a career in the law.

With his hand resting on Justice Fred Lewis's elbow, Scott Greeblatt steps into the Florida Supreme Court Robing Room.

"There are seven doors and each one holds a robe," Lewis explains. "There's a little seating area and a coffee bar. Now we're going to walk straight across to my locker. Would you like to try on my robe?"

While Karly, a black Lab guide dog, stretches out patiently at his feet, Greenblatt slips on the robe with Lewis' name embroidered inside the neckline in green thread.

"How does it feel?" Justice Lewis asks.

"I feel silly. Like an imposter?" laughs Greenblatt, a 29-year-old third-year law student at Florida State University, who lost his sight after after a car wreck in Miami Beach a dozen years ago.

Next, up a few steps and through a curtain into the empty courtroom, where Greenblatt seizes the thrill of sitting in Chief Justice Barbara Pariente's middle seat, and Karly is allowed to hop up in Justice Charles Wells' chair to pose for a picture.

Then it's upstairs to Lewis' chambers, with the justice describing everything along the way, from law books lining the hallways to the historic photographs hanging on the walls.

"So we're going to get to work," Lewis says, draping their jackets on the backs of a pair of chairs, and bringing a bowl of fresh water for Karly to lap. "This isn't a social visit."

Indeed, Lewis put Greenblatt through the paces, dissecting a half dozen pending cases on whether the court has jurisdiction, asking the law student his opinions. Women into that legal give-and-take was plenty of talk about how a blind law student overcomes barriers to pursue his education and how a justice transcended his West Virginia coal-mining family roots to reach the pinnacle of his profession, learning how to balance family life with a legal career along the way.

It was Florida Disability Mentoring Day on October 19, part of a national effort to promote career development for students and job seekers with disabilities through hands-on experiences.

Once Justice Lewis offered to participate, he was paired up with Greenblatt, through Matt Dietz, a Miami disability lawyer working with the Disability Independence Group, and a recommendation from Paolo Annino, one of Greenblatt's professors at FSU's Children's Advocacy Center.

"This young man is going to be a great lawyer one day. And he just needs an opportunity for someone to share with him, to give him some motivation, to show him there, are people who care and want him to...