In
this overview of special education law, a school attorney alongside two
“parent attorneys” will present the framework and concepts of federal
and state special education laws (IDEA, Section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, NCLB, FERPA,
the Rowley S. Ct. decision) and discuss defenses in special education
litigation and how to avoid litigation in the first instance. You will
gain perspective from both sides of the aisle, and learn the legal
avenues available when students’ educational rights have been violated,
and how schools can avoid violations in the identification, evaluation,
eligibility and placement of students with disabilities, and
disciplinary procedures when a student has an IEP or 504.
Who should attend: Attorneys who defend public, charter and private
schools, including nursery and pre-schools and colleges and technical
schools; Judges who may have special education students appear before
them.
Earn 1.5 CLE credits.
Date/Time:
Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Location:
Lewis and Roca LLC, 40 N. Central 15th Floor
To Register:
https://www.azadc.org/Default.aspx?tabid=2335&mid=4280&ctl=Register&eventid=1807
Speakers:
Denise Lowell-Britt is an equity partner at the law firm of Udall,
Shumway & Lyons where she heads the firm’s education law practice
group. Her practice is devoted entirely to representing school
districts, charter schools and other public educational institutions in
matters that include: special education, student disciplinary hearings,
employment and personnel, student records, governing board liability
and open meeting issues. In November 2006, she was named a “Top
Education Attorney” in Phoenix Magazine. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, she was
selected by her peers as a “Best Lawyer in America” in the specialty of
Education Law. Ms. Lowell-Britt is a member of the National School
Board Association, Arizona School Boards Association and Arizona Council
of School Attorneys. She has also been an adjunct faculty member for
Arizona State University, teaching graduate level Education Law classes
for the College of Education, Division of Educational Leadership and
Policy Studies. She has been on the steering committee for the Arizona
School Administrators “Principal and the Law” conference for
approximately 14 years. In March 2009, Ms. Lowell-Britt was presented
with the Laura Ganoung Award, which is the Arizona Council of
Administrators of Special Education’s (CASE) highest award recognizing
leadership in the area of special education.
Hope Kirsch and Lori Kirsch-Goodwin are the founding members of Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC, which has an education practice
devoted to representing students and their families in disputes with
public, private and charter schools, and secondary education
institutions. Hope is a 17 year veteran of the New York City Board of
Education where she was a special education teacher, Crisis Intervention
Teacher and Unit Coordinator in self-contained classes, public special
education day schools and psychiatric hospitals before embarking on law,
and earned her B.S. and M.A. in special education and completed
post-graduate work in in educational supervision and administration.
Lori has navigated the special education system first-hand as the mother
of her now teenage son who is “on the spectrum.” Hope and Lori have
worked collaboratively with Denise for the past several years in the due
process arena and with disciplinary matters.
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