Our Education Law practice focuses on helping you navigate the school system with Special Education and School Discipline issues.

Special Education
Partner Carmen Cave earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Stanford University and is uniquely qualified to help you and your student get the quality education that you are entitled to under the law. She is able to analyze your student’s assessments, learning goals, and curriculum goals to help determine whether the school is making the correct offer for services
via a 504 plan or an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), and whether their educational goals for your student are legally compliant.

We can help you if your child has been diagnosed with, or shows behaviors similar to, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), emotional disturbance, anxiety, or depression, or has a physical disability such as blindness, deafness, or mobility challenges. These characteristics and the accompanying behavior and learning challenges should qualify your students for accommodations to their education, and/or special education services to help them achieve curriculum goals.

School Discipline
If you have been notified that your student is being suspended or expelled, you have to act quickly, as these matters are extremely time sensitive and require immediate action and advocacy for your student.

We can help you and your elementary school, middle school/jr. high school, high school, or college-aged student to understand the infraction, review the procedures followed by the school, and either proceed to hearing or attempt to negotiate a settlement that protects your student from any future stigma or roadblocks to their future educational career. Not every complaint against your student is valid, and not every disciplinary procedure is flawed, and we are here to help you obtain the best possible outcome for your student.