Attorney for Special ED/IEP issues with DCPS

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Anonymous wrote:OP here...yes so surprised that Kim Glassman was weak...I went off the recs on DCUM and was really disappointed in all respects. In hindsight, I should have interviewed multiple lawyers so that was my bad.

Definitely shop around! I'm the PP who met with Eig and Glassman but chose Shefter. I felt very confident in her after our first meeting and I didn't get the same vibes from the other two. She came highly recommended from a friend who is an SN case manager at a DCPS because she was her least favorite attorney to see in a meeting. Choose the attorney who has an approach and demeanor that you trust, because the process will involve a lot of you doing what they tell you to do and stepping back while they do the talking. You have to trust them to lead you. I'm happy with my choice. We're fortunate to have options, honestly.

Shefter is a crook. She only markets well. As a teacher for Mcps she is not respected by the county or their attorneys.

In your experience who do MCPS teachers and the county attorneys respect?

They fear Eig since he's a pitbull...they like Bryan Grueber since he's relational and collaborative.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here...yes so surprised that Kim Glassman was weak...I went off the recs on DCUM and was really disappointed in all respects. In hindsight, I should have interviewed multiple lawyers so that was my bad.

Definitely shop around! I'm the PP who met with Eig and Glassman but chose Shefter. I felt very confident in her after our first meeting and I didn't get the same vibes from the other two. She came highly recommended from a friend who is an SN case manager at a DCPS because she was her least favorite attorney to see in a meeting. Choose the attorney who has an approach and demeanor that you trust, because the process will involve a lot of you doing what they tell you to do and stepping back while they do the talking. You have to trust them to lead you. I'm happy with my choice. We're fortunate to have options, honestly.

Shefter is a crook. She only markets well. As a teacher for Mcps she is not respected by the county or their attorneys.

In your experience who do MCPS teachers and the county attorneys respect?

They fear Eig since he's a pitbull...they like Bryan Grueber since he's relational and collaborative.

They definently do not fear Eig. They view gruber as collaborative but that isn't always a good thing. It can be but not always.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here...yes so surprised that Kim Glassman was weak...I went off the recs on DCUM and was really disappointed in all respects. In hindsight, I should have interviewed multiple lawyers so that was my bad.

Definitely shop around! I'm the PP who met with Eig and Glassman but chose Shefter. I felt very confident in her after our first meeting and I didn't get the same vibes from the other two. She came highly recommended from a friend who is an SN case manager at a DCPS because she was her least favorite attorney to see in a meeting. Choose the attorney who has an approach and demeanor that you trust, because the process will involve a lot of you doing what they tell you to do and stepping back while they do the talking. You have to trust them to lead you. I'm happy with my choice. We're fortunate to have options, honestly.

Shefter is a crook. She only markets well. As a teacher for Mcps she is not respected by the county or their attorneys.

In your experience who do MCPS teachers and the county attorneys respect?

They fear Eig since he's a pitbull...they like Bryan Grueber since he's relational and collaborative.

They definently do not fear Eig. They view gruber as collaborative but that isn't always a good thing. It can be but not always.

We all groan and take a Xanax when we have to deal with eig. Plenty of teachers have broken down crying because of him. Agree about grueber.

[Anonymous]

What's the big deal with Eig? He loses 90% of the time.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the big deal with Eig? He loses 90% of the time.

How do you know that?

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We had a very, very good experience with Gruber (dealing with DCPS). Yes, he was generally calm and appeared collaborative, but that was in meetings with DCPS. He had our child's needs as the center of every conversation with the school district.

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Charles Sibert w Cameron Law in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's the big deal with Eig? He loses 90% of the time.

How do you know that?

All decisions in Md are public record.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here...yes so surprised that Kim Glassman was weak...I went off the recs on DCUM and was really disappointed in all respects. In hindsight, I should have interviewed multiple lawyers so that was my bad.

Definitely shop around! I'm the PP who met with Eig and Glassman but chose Shefter. I felt very confident in her after our first meeting and I didn't get the same vibes from the other two. She came highly recommended from a friend who is an SN case manager at a DCPS because she was her least favorite attorney to see in a meeting. Choose the attorney who has an approach and demeanor that you trust, because the process will involve a lot of you doing what they tell you to do and stepping back while they do the talking. You have to trust them to lead you. I'm happy with my choice. We're fortunate to have options, honestly.

I am a special education attorney and I think this is good advice to choose an attorney whose approach gels with yours and whose advice you trust. I don't take cases when I can tell the parents and I will not be on the same page or they don't seem amenable to my advice, because it's not going to go well later. It's better for them to work with someone else. Also choose someone who you feel comfortable with because you're going to be working closely with them and sharing deeply personal information about your child/family.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's the big deal with Eig? He loses 90% of the time.

How do you know that?

All decisions in Md are public record.

That’s completely misleading. Due process HEARINGS are public record. Those are only cases that go all the way to a hearing - they don’t reflect settlements or cases where the attorney gets what the family wants without proceeding all the way to Due Process, which is the end of the line. Those are the ones MCPS feels they can win. If you look on the MSDE website, there are only 1-3 Due Process hearings per year. Of those, yes, MCPS prevails on most of them because the burden of proof rests with the parents. Eig has won his fair share. I’m an attorney and I’ve won all of the cases I’ve had in my 20+ year career except 2. It’s not because I’m an amazing attorney, it’s the nature of the area of practice I am in, the odds of losing are very very low, and when I have a risky case, I settle it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the big deal with Eig? He loses 90% of the time.

How do you know that?

All decisions in Md are public record.

That’s completely misleading. Due process HEARINGS are public record. Those are only cases that go all the way to a hearing - they don’t reflect settlements or cases where the attorney gets what the family wants without proceeding all the way to Due Process, which is the end of the line. Those are the ones MCPS feels they can win. If you look on the MSDE website, there are only 1-3 Due Process hearings per year. Of those, yes, MCPS prevails on most of them because the burden of proof rests with the parents. Eig has won his fair share. I’m an attorney and I’ve won all of the cases I’ve had in my 20+ year career except 2. It’s not because I’m an amazing attorney, it’s the nature of the area of practice I am in, the odds of losing are very very low, and when I have a risky case, I settle it.

Fellow attorney here who would love to know which area of the law has very very low odds of losing. Sounds dreamy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here...yes so surprised that Kim Glassman was weak...I went off the recs on DCUM and was really disappointed in all respects. In hindsight, I should have interviewed multiple lawyers so that was my bad.

Definitely shop around! I'm the PP who met with Eig and Glassman but chose Shefter. I felt very confident in her after our first meeting and I didn't get the same vibes from the other two. She came highly recommended from a friend who is an SN case manager at a DCPS because she was her least favorite attorney to see in a meeting. Choose the attorney who has an approach and demeanor that you trust, because the process will involve a lot of you doing what they tell you to do and stepping back while they do the talking. You have to trust them to lead you. I'm happy with my choice. We're fortunate to have options, honestly.

Shefter is a crook. She only markets well. As a teacher for Mcps she is not respected by the county or their attorneys.

If she's winning, I don't think it matters how much "respect" the people trying to block SN services have for her. When you decide to bring an attorney into the equation, it's in your best interest to stop worrying about how much the teachers and admin like you and instead focus on the right outcome for your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the big deal with Eig? He loses 90% of the time.

How do you know that?

All decisions in Md are public record.

That’s completely misleading. Due process HEARINGS are public record. Those are only cases that go all the way to a hearing - they don’t reflect settlements or cases where the attorney gets what the family wants without proceeding all the way to Due Process, which is the end of the line. Those are the ones MCPS feels they can win. If you look on the MSDE website, there are only 1-3 Due Process hearings per year. Of those, yes, MCPS prevails on most of them because the burden of proof rests with the parents. Eig has won his fair share. I’m an attorney and I’ve won all of the cases I’ve had in my 20+ year career except 2. It’s not because I’m an amazing attorney, it’s the nature of the area of practice I am in, the odds of losing are very very low, and when I have a risky case, I settle it.

Fellow attorney here who would love to know which area of the law has very very low odds of losing. Sounds dreamy.

Employment defense. It's not "dreamy" by any means, bad stuff happens we just settle when it does. And it's a lot of advice as well. It's also very discovery heavy which is awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Im an employment attorney and I used Jaime Seaton at the recommendation of a friend in my case and she got us an extremely favorable result. Michael Eig is heard to be great but overly litigious and expensive.

We had much better experience with Michael Eig than with J Seaton

[Anonymous]

We loved Paula Rosenstock in Michael Eig's office.