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Special Education

FIRM OVERVIEW Client Focused

Practice Areas Lozano Smith is known for and provides the highest quality special education expertise in
California. Our practice is dedicated to helping school districts with all areas of special education
Administrative and student disability law, including:
Hearings
Charter School > Day to day availability to address timely questions as they arise
Community College > Records Request/Public Records Act responses and advice
Facilities & Business > Trainings to enable school district staff, from directors to service providers, to identify and avoid
Governance
Investigations potential legal issues and maximize compliance
Labor & > Development of policies, handbooks, and reference materials
Employment > Representation at Individualized Education Program (“IEP”) team meetings, resolution
Litigation
Municipal sessions, mediations, prehearing conferences, due process hearings, and appeals
Public Finance > Responding to complaints made to the California Department of Education (“CDE”) and Office
Public Safety for Civil Rights (“OCR”) and representation during resulting investigations
Special Education
Student
Technology & Areas of Practice
Innovation Lozano Smith represents and advises clients regarding:
Title IX
> IEP meetings
> Section 504 meetings
Statewide > Unilateral placement of students by their parents in private schools, nonpublic schools, or
residential treatment centers
Sacramento
Walnut Creek > IDEA and Section 504 discipline, resolution sessions, mediations, prehearing conferences and
Fresno hearings
Monterey > Bullying, discrimination, and harassment claims and complaints
Bakersfield
San Luis Obispo > OCR and CDE investigations and complaints
Los Angeles > Special education issues related to charter school students
San Diego > Interagency disputes
> Case analysis and preparation
Group Leaders > Revocation of consent issues
> Prehearing motions, evidence preparation, and witness preparation
> Settlement analysis and agreements
> Provision of mental health services
> California Superior Court writs of administrative mandamus
> California Superior Court applications for temporary restraining orders

Jennifer Baldassari > Appeals to the United States District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
jbaldassari@lozanosmith.com > United States District Court claims for attorneys’ fees and costs

Special Education Legal Training
Hundreds of special education administrators attend the Lozano Smith Special Education Legal
Consortium (“SELC”) each year. This seminar is conducted throughout the state and for individual
clients upon request, providing in-depth information on a variety of current topics. Recent topics
Alyssa R. Bivins include dyslexia, mental health, and the ever-popular legal update.
abivins@lozanosmith.com

California’s Premier Public Agency Law Firm LozanoSmith.com