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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 149356" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>During The Bad Years we hired three attorneys and used a Pubic Defender once. Two of the three attorneys we hired -- the first two, including the one we took to a school hearing -- made no effort to understand the situation and gave (or intended to give) us their one-size-fits-all representation. I had to learn the IDEA and spend a lot of time undoing the result of first one's failure to do the job he was paid to do. The second was fired when he refused to do the job he committed to before he was hired. The third one dismissed my information as that of a biased mother who didn't want to believe her little boy did a bad thing and refused to listen to anything I said ....right up until courtroom scene where the Evil Vice Principal lied on the witness stand totally contradicting the testimony of the pretend victim who was unable to continue in lying once he was under oath <em>exactly as I had predicted.</em> The best representation we got was from a Public Defender. But the most help we got was from an Assist. DA who's job was to prosecute my son even though he personally thought there was no crime to prosecute.</p><p></p><p>Naturally, I'm going to advise you not to go into <em>anything</em> with an attorney who doesn't completely grasp the complexities of your son's situation and/or who doesn't know IDEA backwards and forwards. The wrong attorney <em>can</em> make things worse. Nothing like sitting next to the person you are paying only to have them start making the SD's case. </p><p></p><p>(I beat a school district sped ed attorney at a due process hearing once. I don't know if she didn't know the law or if she just assumed I didn't. The other time I faced an attorney at a due process hearing was a formality -- he conceded on behalf of the SD and was tasked with sitting in a room with me and writing up the proposed solution to the problem. He was not happy and snapped at me about not gloating. Gloating?? Huh??? Never quite got what <em>that</em> was all about. Apparently making a SD abide by a mediation agreement is a bad thing.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 149356, member: 1498"] During The Bad Years we hired three attorneys and used a Pubic Defender once. Two of the three attorneys we hired -- the first two, including the one we took to a school hearing -- made no effort to understand the situation and gave (or intended to give) us their one-size-fits-all representation. I had to learn the IDEA and spend a lot of time undoing the result of first one's failure to do the job he was paid to do. The second was fired when he refused to do the job he committed to before he was hired. The third one dismissed my information as that of a biased mother who didn't want to believe her little boy did a bad thing and refused to listen to anything I said ....right up until courtroom scene where the Evil Vice Principal lied on the witness stand totally contradicting the testimony of the pretend victim who was unable to continue in lying once he was under oath [I]exactly as I had predicted.[/I] The best representation we got was from a Public Defender. But the most help we got was from an Assist. DA who's job was to prosecute my son even though he personally thought there was no crime to prosecute. Naturally, I'm going to advise you not to go into [I]anything[/I] with an attorney who doesn't completely grasp the complexities of your son's situation and/or who doesn't know IDEA backwards and forwards. The wrong attorney [I]can[/I] make things worse. Nothing like sitting next to the person you are paying only to have them start making the SD's case. (I beat a school district sped ed attorney at a due process hearing once. I don't know if she didn't know the law or if she just assumed I didn't. The other time I faced an attorney at a due process hearing was a formality -- he conceded on behalf of the SD and was tasked with sitting in a room with me and writing up the proposed solution to the problem. He was not happy and snapped at me about not gloating. Gloating?? Huh??? Never quite got what [I]that[/I] was all about. Apparently making a SD abide by a mediation agreement is a bad thing.) [/QUOTE]
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