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Special Education

FIRM OVERVIEW CLIENT FOCUSED

Practice Areas Lozano Smith has a reputation of providing the highest quality special education expertise in California.
Our practice is dedicated to helping school districts with all areas of special education law, including:
Administrative
Hearings > Day to day availability to address questions as they arise, before they become expensive problems
Charter School > Records Requests/Public Records Act Requests
Community College > Multi-district and in-service trainings to enable school district staff, from directors to service
Facilities & Business
Governance providers, to identify and avoid potential legal issues
Investigations > Development of district policies, as well as employee, faculty and student handbooks
Labor & Employment > Representation at IEP Individualized Education Program (“IEP”) team meetings, mediations, due
Litigation
Municipal process hearings and litigation
Public Finance > Responding to complaints made to the Department of Education and/or Office for Civil Rights
Special Education
Student
Title IX
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Lozano Smith represents and advises clients regarding:

> IEP and Section 504 meetings
Statewide
> Unilateral placement of students by their parents in private schools and residential treatment centers
Sacramento > IDEA and Section 504 discipline issues, hearings, resolution sessions, mediations, prehearing
Walnut Creek conferences and hearings
Fresno
Monterey > Least restrictive environment issues
Bakersfield > Bullying, discrimination, and harassment claims and complaints
San Luis Obispo > Student discipline and manifestation determination hearings
Los Angeles
San Diego > Office for Civil Rights and California Department of Education investigations and complaints
> Special education issues related to charter school students
> Case analysis, cost-benefit, analysis, and due process hearing preparation
Group Leaders > Prehearing motions, evidence preparation, and witness preparation
> Provision of mental health services
> United States District Court claims for attorneys’ fees and costs

SPECIAL EDUCATION LEGAL TRAINING
Jennifer Baldassari Hundreds of special education administrators attend the Lozano Smith Special Education Legal
jbaldassari@lozanosmith.com Consortium (“SELC”) each year. This half-day seminar is conducted throughout the state and for
individual clients as requested. It provides in-depth information on a variety of topics.
In addition to the SELC, we provide in-service trainings to school districts on a wide variety of topics,
ranging from student discipline to Section 504 to avoiding disproportionate representation of
minority students in special education. Our attorneys have also been invited to make presentations
at numerous conferences, such as the ACSA Every Child Counts Symposium, California Association of
Kaitlyn M. Tucker
ktucker@lozanosmith.com School Business Officials (CASBO), LRP National Institute, and LRP School Attorneys Conference.

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