Warner to Present on Disability Rights in Public Schools
News Release
(New Britain, PA) - Partner Tom Warner of Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams will co-present a continuing legal education (CLE) seminar entitled “MCLE: The Nuts and Bolts of Disability Rights Laws in Public Schools,” hosted by the Berks County Bar Association on Friday, October 6, 2017 from 11:45 A.M. to 1:15 P.M. The event will take place at the bar association’s office at 544 Court Street in Reading, Pennsylvania. Attendees will receive 1 substantive CLE credit, and lunch will be served.
With co-presenter Jennifer M. Lukach Bradley, Esq., Warner will provide an overview of the federal statutes that require public schools to provide special education students with a variety of supports and services in schools and which afford more protections to special education students who violate school rules. The seminar will also provide important guidance to attorneys who advise and/or represent clients with children in public schools who have special education needs. For more information on the program, visit www.berksbar.org.
Warner practices primarily in the representation of Pennsylvania school districts and entities in matters of special education at both the administrative and appellate levels. He also spends a significant amount of time providing in-service training to school districts and colleagues on various related matters, including the development of defensible special education programming and confidentiality/disclosure issues involving education records.
Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams, LLP was formed in 1995 by nine experienced education lawyers who created the first private law practice in Pennsylvania dedicated entirely to Education Law. Since then, the firm has grown to 16 attorneys who represent over 290 school and municipal entities as Solicitors or as Special Counsel in more than 50 counties throughout Pennsylvania.