After last year’s litigation roller coaster ride, we are ready to meet whatever challenges may come our way. We have added significant resources at the attorney and paralegal levels. We also have further enhanced and streamlined procedures for the recovery of prospective, reimbursement, and “pendency” funding, and for documenting and effectuating settlements.
In the past year, Mayerson & Associates attorneys made special education law presentations in New York, New Jersey and Florida in the context of national conferences and continuing legal education seminars. On April 24, 2012, we argued three separate special education law appeals before the Second Circuit, the tier just before the U.S. Supreme Court. In only one of those cases were we representing the appealing party. The resulting adjudications from these three cases are likely to be extremely important, if not landmark, decisions that will shape and define the scope of parental rights and protections for families living within the Second Circuit (New York, Connecticut and Vermont). It was especially gratifying to see so many of our attorney colleagues make the trip to New Haven to watch the oral arguments. Keep your fingers crossed!
Most recently, my chapter on the legal implications of Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) was accepted for publication in Auditory Processing Disorders: Assessments, Management and Treatment, Second Edition, edited by Donna Geffner and Deborah Ross-Swain. I am now finishing a chapter tentatively entitled “Autism and the Law,” to be published in the upcoming Fourth Edition of the seminal work, Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, edited by Dr. Fred Volkmar, the Chair of the Yale Child Study Team.
A client’s needs necessarily will change over time. Accordingly, as our client population ages, we are continuing to pioneer or expand into areas such as “transition” planning, bullying, compensatory education relief, residential placements and programs, housing, employment, custodial issues, and the battleground of what are “reasonable accommodations.” Simply stated, we are committed to meeting the unique and ever-changing needs of our client families.