Hopefully your lawyer will be AT due process? It can be quite intimidating. there are certain specific procedures, laws etc for how the hearing is conducted. It can also get kinda ugly, but you must adhere to the format etc for arguing your case, presenting evidence, gathering tesimony etc. In our hearing I had to comply with discovery, list of potential witnesses, providing aproperly executed set of documents, including cpies or he distrct andthe hearig oficer, in a very specifc format......and ac cording to specific timelines etc.
Our hearing was held in a room in our school building, actually, the same room all our iep meetngs were held......in hindsite I wish ithad been held in more neutral territory. Tape recorders and video tape was NOT permitted. there was a transcriptionist there......
It was very similar to a civil or criminal trial, in my opinion