I just reviewed the transcript of the oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Endrew v. Douglas County School District, which involves figuring out just how far a school district needs to go in order to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE), under IDEA. Here is what we know from that oral

Over the last couple of months, I have received this phone call close to once a week. So, I thought I should write a preventive law approach to dealing with this. The situation goes like this: potential client owns a small business/restaurant/shopping mall and is worried about fending off a serial plaintiff either presently or

Before moving on to the post of the week, you will notice that the blog has a new look and feel. I upgraded the blog so that it is better able to be used on mobile devices and more importantly the upgrade increases its ability to be accessible. Besides the look, you will see that

Before getting started on the blog entry of the day, I would be remiss if I didn’t note that the Cubs are back in it! Winning two games against a very tough Cleveland team in Cleveland with a likely Hall of Fame manager is going to be very tough. Go Cubs!

Last week, a person

Before we get started on the blog entry of the day, a couple of housekeeping matters are in order. First, you may be wondering why my website/blog site and my professional email went down last week. The company that was hosting my website was bought out by another company, and there were some mechanical things

Hope everybody had a great Labor Day weekend. Today’s blog entry discusses the professional obligations associated with a person with a disability in litigation. I can’t tell you how often I get a call from a person, generally a couple of times a week, talking about how the court system is not accommodating their disability.