Presenter:
Session
Length:
Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq.
90 Minutes
Cost:
Single On-Demand Viewer
Group Rate (Up to 25)
Group Rate (26-50)
$25.00
$500.00
$1000.00
Group Rate (50+)
$20000.00
Program Information:
Litigation is disruptive. One of the best ways to minimize the disruption (and significantly reduce legal fees!) is to ensure that the special education documents speak for themselves. Comprehensive and explanatory special education documentation can reduce the amount of witness testimony needed and ensure that anyone reviewing the documents can easily follow what happened, what was proposed, and the nature and extent of the parents’ involvement. That’s often not easy, though. A series of three IEP meeting invitation
forms doesn’t tell the story of how the parents canceled the first two meetings at the last minute or failed to respond to any of the three attempts. In this session, attorney Erin D. Gilsbach demonstrates how the use of a simple cover letter (or “cover email”) in litigation-risk cases can serve to connect the dots in any special education file, effectively reducing litigation stress, attorneys’ fees, and unnecessary witness testimony.
About the Presenter:
Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq., a practicing school law attorney and Executive Director of EdLaw Interactive, is an experienced speaker and writer at the state and national levels on current trends and important issues regarding school law and education. She is also a highly-skilled professional development expert who provides school law training in live and web-based formats to educators and school leaders nationally and throughout her home state of Pennsylvania. In addition to working with schools, Atty. Gilsbach devotes a great deal of time to working with other school law attorneys, providing continuing legal education (CLE) trainings for school law attorneys on new and emerging legal issues in the field of education law.
Atty. Gilsbach has extensive experience working with schools and providing proactive professional development programs for school attorneys and school leaders on legally-defensible practices. She has provided legal representation and/or professional development to over 150 public, private, and charter schools. Atty. Gilsbach is Past-President of the PA School Boards Association (PSBA) Solicitor’s Association and a member of the Board of Directors of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) Council of School Attorneys. She is also a frequent writer and presenter with PSBA, NSBA, NSBA’s Council of School Attorneys (COSA), and the National Business Institute (NBI). She was voted a Rising Star Attorney by her peers in Superlawyers and Philadelphia magazines for five consecutive years and was selected as 2018’s Distinguished Speaker by the Missouri Council of Administrators of Special Education.
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