EBCALA: Know Your Legal Rights

Tim Adams, Esq., and Lynne Arnold
Know Your Special Ed Rights: IDEA Overview

Tim Adams, Esq., and Lynne Arnold
Know Your Special Ed Rights: Preparing for Advocacy

Tim Adams, Esq., and Lynne Arnold
Know Your Special Ed Rights: Evaluations

Mitchel Perlman, PhD
Know Your Special Ed Rights: Understanding Assessments

Dan Olmsted
Know Your First Amendment Rights:
An Inside Look at Andy Wakefield's Defamation Case

Tim Adams, Esq., and Lynne Arnold
Know Your Special Ed Rights: IEP Strategy

Tim Adams, Esq., Lynne Arnold, and Mitchel Perlman, PhD:
Question and Answer session

Tim Adams, Esq., and Jennifer Keefe, Esq.
Advanced Special Education topics

Bios (in progress):
Bob Krakow, Esq.
Bob is an experienced and accomplished trial lawyer and is the principal in his own firm that he created in 1989. He specializes in representing people exposed to environmental toxins and vaccine injury. He represented many individuals in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding. Bob is a co-founder of EBCALA and is also a founding board member of A-CHAMP, now known as the Autism Action Network, and is a past chairman of the board of Lifespire, Inc., a not-for-profit that supports more than 6,000 developmentally disabled adults and children..

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Lisa Colin, Esq.
Lisa, a partner in Martin & Colin PC located in White Plains, New York, sits on the Board of Directors for EBCALA and the Board of Directors for the Westchester Law Guardian Association. She is a co-founding member of Autism Action New York and an active member of Autism Action Network. She organized an EBCALA CLE event at Pace Law School, NY and has played a pivotal role in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Justice Project. Along with her husband and business partner, she was a former radio host at a local New York station.

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Jodi Bouer, Esq.
Jodi is the principal in her own practice that focuses on helping ASD individuals and their providers obtain insurance coverage for therapies. She has extensive insurance law experience as former counsel at an insurance company and at major law firms. She has taught insurance law at Seton Hall Law School. She helps clients understand how insurers assess coverage obligations and how to present their claims most effectively with their policies. Her firm helps clients prepare and submit claims and appeals, negotiate settlements, and obtain court orders requiring insurers to honor their coverage obligations.

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Tim Adams, Esq.
Tim has served as an adjunct professor and Associate Director of the Special Education Advocacy Clinic, Pepperdine University School of Law. He is actively involved in educating parents on special ed law, including Autism One (2005-2011), the National Autism Association (2005, 2007-2009), the National Epilepsy Foundation Annual Conference (2001) and Talk About Curing Autism (TACA). He has trained Orange County Superior Court Judges regarding special education law. He is Adams & Associates’ Chief Executive Officer.

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Jennifer Keefe, Esq.
Jennifer is a trial lawyer for a major national law firm and has been nominated by her peers six years in a row as one of Texas’ Rising Stars in Texas Monthly Magazine.  She attended Vanderbilt University and Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law. She assists clients in a wide range of business litigation.  Jennifer has received several awards for her pro bono work and serves on the Board of EBCALA. She also leads a parent support group in Dallas named Warrior Parents of Dallas.

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Kim Mack Rosenberg, Esq.
Kim is a litigator at a major New York City-based law firm, where her practice focuses on products liability, class actions, insurance coverage and general civil litigation.  In 2009 she was recognized by the Legal Aid Society for her pro bono service.  In addition to being a on the board of EBCALA and the Center for Personal Rights, Kim is the President of the National Autism Association NY Metro Chapter.  She is also a contributing editor of Vaccine Epidemic.

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Mary Holland, Esq.
Mary is a board member of the Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy and the Center for Personal Rights.  She is a Research Scholar at NYU Law School and previously practiced at major international law firms and worked for an international human rights organization.  She researches and writes on legal issues related to autism and to vaccination and is the Legal Editor for the Autism File magazine.

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Louis Conte
Louis is the President of Autism Action New York and a board member of EBCALA, where he has served as the director of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Justice Project.  Louis has advocated extensively in Albany for autism health insurance reform, vaccination choice and improved educational services for people with autism.  Lou has extensive experience in law enforcement, having worked in probation for more than twenty years.
 

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Lynne Arnold
Lynne is the coordinator of Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) of Visalia, CA. Through conference presentations and mentoring, she helps parents to understand their child's rights to appropriate interventions and education. Lynne is the editor of Autism: Asserting Your Child’s Rights to a Special Education by David A. Sherman. She has presented at Autism One (2005-2010), National Autism Association Conference (2005 and 2007-2010), Families for Effective Autism Treatment (FEAT), Autism Society of America and other autism groups.

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Mitchel D. Perlman, Ph.D
Mitchel focuses on the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents who have specialized needs and/or who are involved in chaotic-intense-traumatic-critical situations. Known for the comprehensiveness of his investigatory assessments (psychodiagnostic, psychoeducational, neurocognitive), Dr. Perlman is often called on to be the impartial independent examiner in juvenile, family, civil and special education proceedings. He lends his expertise and keen insights to children/teens who have stepped away from the mainstream and/or who have gotten themselves in over their heads – emotionally, legally or in relation to others. He is involved in assessing some of the most fascinating individuals, and he has a knack for detecting and/or explaining things that have often gone unnoticed or that have been misunderstood. For example, in many children who had been diagnosed with autism and mental retardation, Dr. Perlman has found near-gifted to gifted intelligence and has been instrumental in guiding parents to the resources to unlock it.