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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 and student
      Administrative          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 sessions,
      Litigation
      Municipal                   mediations, prehearing conferences, due process hearings, and appeals
      Public Finance             >  Responding to complaints made to the California Department of Education (“CDE”) and Office
      Special Education           for Civil Rights (“OCR”) and representation during resulting investigations
      Student
      Title IX
                              Areas of Practice
                              Lozano Smith represents and advises clients regarding:

      Statewide                  >  IEP meetings
                                 >  Section 504 meetings
      Sacramento                 >  Unilateral placement of students by their parents in private schools, nonpublic schools, or
      Walnut Creek
      Fresno                      residential treatment centers
      Monterey                   >  IDEA and Section 504 discipline, resolution sessions, mediations, prehearing conferences and
      Bakersfield                 hearings
      San Luis Obispo
      Los Angeles                >  Bullying, discrimination, and harassment claims and complaints
      San Diego                  >  OCR and CDE investigations and complaints
                                 >  Special education issues related to charter school students
                                 >  Interagency disputes
      Group Leaders              >  Case analysis and preparation
                                 >  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
      Jennifer Baldassari        >  California Superior Court applications for temporary restraining orders
      jbaldassari@lozanosmith.com    >  Appeals to the United States District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
                                 >  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
      Kaitlyn M. Tucker       clients upon request, providing in-depth information on a variety of current topics. Recent topics
      ktucker@lozanosmith.com
                              include dyslexia, mental health, and the ever-popular legal update.






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