Overview

Haley Fagan is Senior Counsel in Lozano Smith’s Walnut Creek office. She represents school districts in legal matters related to students and special education.

Experience

Ms. Fagan has successfully represented school districts through all stages of special education proceedings before both the California Department of Education and the Office of Administrative Hearings. Her experience includes providing assistance at IEP meetings, participating in mediations, and representing districts in compliance investigations and due process hearings.

Ms. Fagan also has experience providing legal representation to foster youth and enforcement of their educational rights in the areas of special education, school discipline, school stability, and high school graduation. She has served as Staff Attorney, Director of Education Advocacy, and Director of Training at East Bay Children’s Law Office. In these roles, she has facilitated attorney and social worker inter-disciplinary case management systems, provided trauma informed legal representation, and conducted numerous trainings on educational rights for foster youth.

Education

Ms. Fagan earned her law degree from Harvard Law School. She earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Senate Bill 997 Gives Students a Voice in the LCAP Process

By: Daniel McElhinney, Haley Fagan- 02/28/2023

Episode 66 Addressing Inclusion Confusion following COVID

By: Jennifer Baldassari, Haley Fagan- 09/11/2023

Join Lozano Smith attorneys Joshua Whiteside, Jennifer Baldassari, and Haley Fagan in a discussion about special education inclusion following a return to in-person schooling post COVID. In this episode they discuss inclusive environments, recent case law, and next steps for the future in this podcast that delves into inclusion and travels through past and present frameworks to better understand inclusion.