
Michael Zatopa and Ellen Stephens have been representing
families of special needs children and adults and the organizations
that serve them for over 40 years combined. We have created this
website to provide you with information and resources to help you
better understand the law and procedures that affect special needs
children. We invite you to explore the many useful areas of our
site to help you assess the options available to you.
While we have provided most of our legal services to
families on an individual basis, we have now instituted a Pre-Paid
Group Legal Services plan that can provide organizations and groups
of parents pre-paid legal counseling at a far lower cost than individual
representation. It is our hope to provide families with legal advice
on their case in a group format that allows them to navigate the
special education process at their local public school with direct
legal advice at each juncture in the process, but in an affordable
manner.
Our fundamental goal in creating this web site is to
help you navigate the process, and understand where, why and when
legal assistance may be appropriate and efficient, and further,
how to make it cost-effective. We invite your comments and recommend
you use our email addresses in the contact
us section.
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Review a description of our Group Legal Services plan and see if
your organization or parent group can access legal advice at a low
cost.
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Submit information to our firm for an initial review of your case.
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Prior cases handled by this firm, and their outcomes.
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Links to private and public organizations relevant to our client.
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