Sweet Stevens Planning, Presenting at Exceptional Children Conference
New Britain, PA – Several attorneys from Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams LLP will be playing key roles at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) 2025 Exceptional Children Conference, reflecting the firm’s leadership in special education law throughout Pennsylvania. This year’s event will be held at Central Penn College in Summerdale, PA on Friday, October 24, 2025.
Thomas C. Warner, who has served as co-chair of the Exceptional Children’s Committee since 2016, has been instrumental in shaping the conference’s content and direction for nearly a decade. His ongoing leadership helps ensure the event remains one of the most respected forums on special education law in the commonwealth. He will be joined at the event by colleagues Karl A. Romberger, Jr., Kalani Linnell Asroff and Jason P. Sam, each serving as a faculty member during the day.
Warner is a frequent presenter at conferences focused on special education legal issues. While he devotes much of his practice to representing clients in matters of special education litigation at the administrative and appellate levels, he also spends a significant amount of time providing in-service training to school districts regarding various matters. This includes the development of defensible special education programming and confidentiality/disclosure issues involving education records.
Romberger advises school entities on matters involving special education, student services, behavioral health placements, civil rights, and policy development. He represents educational institutions in administrative hearings and litigation in both state and federal courts. Romberger also provides staff training and consultations through the firm’s pool counsel service and is a frequent presenter at continuing legal education programs.
Linnell Asroff advises clients in matters involving special education, student civil rights, and operations/practices, and is especially dedicated to the issue of Title IX compliance, serving clients in the roles of Title IX Coordinator, Title IX Investigator, Title IX Decisionmaker, and Title IX Appeal Decisionmaker. She litigates in administrative, state, and federal venues.
Sam brings a strong background in trial practice to his work in civil rights, special education, contract disputes, employment law, and tax assessment matters. Prior to joining the firm, he served in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, where he handled a high-volume caseload in both the Motions Court Pre-Trial Unit and the Municipal Court Unit.
The PBI is the educational arm of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. The conference addresses today’s critical topics in special education, team-taught by a balanced faculty of attorneys for school districts, as well as those who represent students. Participants are eligible to earn CLE credits. For more information, visit pbi.org.
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 26 attorneys who represent over 290 school and municipal entities as Solicitors or as Special Counsel in more than 50 counties throughout Pennsylvania, and in additional practice areas, such as Construction Law, Tax Assessment Appeals, Audit of Operations and Practices, Real Estate Law and Oil, Gas and Mineral Law.