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The ABC’s of Education Law – March 6th Continuing Legal Education Program, Rockville, MD

The ABC’s of Education Law ♣ Tuesday, March 6, 2012 ♣ 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

On-line registration:   https://m360.montbar.org/frontend/event/registration/login.aspx?EventId=40572 

A- Advocating for your Regular and Special Education client

B- Benefiting students and families using Independent Evaluations

C- Contesting and successfully deflecting zero tolerance expulsion/suspension policy

Hear from a number of well known legal and professional experts acclaimed for their work in the field. Experts all, our ABC’s team will to us speak at this timely program  on topical issues in education law and help you learn to enhance your practice, obtain useful information for other areas of practice including juvenile, criminal and family law.  This CLE will cover multiple practice tips that will expand your practice and keep your practice up to speed in this fast moving legal environment. 

Attorneys, and education advocates, special and regular education administrators and policy makers, agency and private school representatives, med/psych providers to teens and youth, juvenile justice professionals; this program offers common sense tips and insights to these stake holders and others interested in learning and understanding more of the various legal mandates, privileges and obligations under the law often implicated in education law disputes. 

Patrick Hoover, Lynndolyn Mitchell & Karen Smith: BAMC Education Law Section Co-Chairs

 

 

 

 




UMD law student symposium targets school bullying

Students bullied in schools by on-line and on-campus abusers are targeted by the University of Maryland widely-supported, innovative symposium that was organized by law students.

Check out this video report on YouTube:

School Bullying Targeted By Md. Law Students




Special needs students after high school: Dos and don’ts

By: Patrick J. Hoover, Esq.

There’s five minutes left in the exam and Andrew has barely made it through half the questions. It’s not that he struggles with the concepts — it just takes longer for him to piece together the equations in his head because he “sees” the numbers backwards. Andrew has a learning disability, and his is not receiving any special services for it. Now, imagine today’s exam is the SAT or ACT and the results will determine if Andrew gets into the college of his choice, or, into any college.

In most cases if your child or teen is not classified with a special education designation during elementary, middle or high school, he may never be. Not for lack of disability, but because it is much more difficult to begin the process after the primary and secondary school years. Most, if not all, universities and colleges will recognize and provide special accommodations for your undergraduate student if he/she informs the school of his/her disability. The process is often seamless where the documentation of need already exists in the student’s records; unfortunately, the opposite is also true.




Flash mobs: First dancing, now crime

By: Bryan D. Utter, Esq.

Ask someone what a flash mob is and they’ll likely conjure up images of what they’ve seen on television: a public place suddenly taken over by a group of strangers performing a coordinated dance routine. The group performs its number, there’s some applause, maybe some laughter, and then everybody goes back to what they were doing.

These lighthearted events, many of which became overnight YouTube sensations, are what most people will think of when asked about flash mobs. But, what most people don’t know is that flash mobs have taken on a new, sinister side; a side that has come to be known as “flash mob crime.”

A perfect example of flash mob crime occurred in Germantown this past August. Dozens of teenagers descended upon a local 7-Eleven and, en masse, shoplifted food and other items.

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