• Social security disability
• Long term disability, veterans disability, education law
• Higher education law
• Frequent lecturer on education and disability topics
• Member of the Connecticut Bar Association
• Past Chair and founder, Education Law Committee
• Member, Disability Law Section
• Member, Past Chair, Administrative Law Section
• Member, the Hartford County Bar Association, former chair, Education Law Committee
• Member, National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s
• Speaker at NOSSCR on cross-examining Vocational Experts
• Member, National Organization of Veterans Advocates
• Small claims Magistrate for the State of Connecticut
• Past hearing officer for the Department of Education, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services and the Department of Mental Retardation
• B.A. degree from Ohio Wesleyan University
• J.D. degree summa cum laude from Western New England College School of Law in 1980, graduating #1 in her class, and where she served as an editor on Law Review.
• Law clerk for Chief Justice Joseph Bogdanski of the Connecticut Supreme Court
• Past adjunct professor at Western New England School of Law
• Rated as a “Top Lawyer” in Hartford Magazine, April 2010
• Admitted to the Connecticut Bar, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the Federal Circuit.
PUBLICATIONS
Connecticut Lawyers’ Deskbook 3rd Ed., (2008), Law First Publishing, chapter 20, Education Law
Who’s Reading Johnny’s School Records?, GP Solo, April/May 2006, Vol. 23, No.3
Who’s Reading Your Child’s School Records? Are They Really Private?, Connecticut Lawyer, March 2007, Vol.17, No. 6