Join us online at 7pm on 5/29, where Daniel Heffernan and Eliza Presson from Kotin, Crabtree & Strong will speak on “Agreeing To Disagree: How to Effectively Resolve Disputes with School Districts.”

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Daniel T.S. Heffernan is a partner with Kotin, Crabtree & Strong and concentrates his practice on representing families of children with special needs in special education and civil rights matters. From 1995 to 2015 he served on the board of directors of the Federation for Children with Special Needs and was board president from 1995 to 2007. He received the 2014 President’s Award from the Federation for Children with Special Needs. He was one of the honorees at the 2023 Federation for Children with Special Needs’ 49th Anniversary Gala, “Honoring Giants Along The Way” the trailblazing giants who founded, built, and grew the Federation for Children with Special Needs. In 2002, he and his wife, Julie, received the Dr. Allen C. Crocker Award for Excellence from the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. He writes and lectures frequently on special education law and advocacy. Mr. Heffernan has been named a Super Lawyer in special education law every year since 2005 and was named as a Top Rated Lawyer in Education by The Boston Globe. From 1995 to 2000, he served as the president of the board of directors of Community Legal Services and Counseling Center. He also serves on the MDSC Education Task Force. He has two daughters, Maggie and Evie, and an adult son, Brian, who has Down syndrome.

Eliza Presson is an associate with the Special Education, Disability Law and Civil Rights group. She represents parents and young people in special education and school discipline matters.  Prior to joining Kotin, Crabtree & Strong, Ms. Presson was a senior supervising attorney at a Boston public interest law firm, where she represented families of children with unmet mental health needs to access services from school districts, public and commercial health insurers, and state agencies, including the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Developmental Services. In that role, she managed partnerships with interdisciplinary teams of healthcare providers supporting children with complex health needs, and she provided trainings on special education, school discipline, state agencies, and the state juvenile court system to attorneys, caregivers, physicians, behavioral health providers, community health workers, and other stakeholders throughout the Commonwealth. She has also represented young people in child welfare and complex custody matters in Washington, DC. Directly after law school she served as a fellow at an education nonprofit in Philadelphia.

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