The 2025 Conference Compendium of Materials includes all white papers for all the main conference sessions.

General Sessions include the Friday keynote, Saturday general session, and Sunday Judith Law Case Review

Breakout Session 1

1.1 Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Strategies for Today's Tech-Driven Law Firms
1.2 Experts- IEE's to DP's Winning Expert Strategies
1.3 TRAUMA IS NOT TREATMENT: Responding to School Removals for Emergency Psychiatric Evaluations
1.4 Addressing the Language and Communication Needs of Deaf and Hard-of Hearing Students
1.5 IDEA/ADA/Section 504 & recent Supreme Court Decisions Perez, Cummings & Lope
1.6 Is this Autism? Understanding how autism can present in individuals who mask their autistic traits
1.7 A Holistic Approach to Disability: Advocating as an Occupational Therapist, an Attorney, and an Individual with a Disability
1.8 Federal Advocacy 2025: COPAA’s Policy and Advocacy Leadership in Washington, DC
1.9 School Discipline Nuts & Bolts: Advocating for Students Subject to Exclusionary Discipline

Breakout Session 2

2.1 Representing Students with Disabilities in Title IX Investigations and Understanding the Impact of the New Regulations (eff. 8/1/24)
2.2 The differences between substantive FAPE and procedural violations and why it matters
2.3 Bridging Education and Healthcare: Strategies for Supporting Students with Medical Needs
2.4 Education Justice: Ensuring Educational Success for Justice-Involved Youth
2.5 Substantially Justified: How to Preserve the Attorney's Fees You Deserve While Fighting for a Better Settlement
2.6 The Force of IDEA, Section 504, and ADA Regulations After Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo
2.7 Rebuilding the Parent-School Relationship
2.8 Building Community Partnerships To Support Families And Increase Awareness
2.9 Placing the Unplaceable: Building Programs For Students Who Lack Placement Options

Breakout Session 3

3.1 The Top 40 Chart-Topping District Court Decisions of 2024
3.2 Preparing for Manifestation Determination Review (MDR) Meetings: Ensuring a Fair Outcome
3.3 The Promise and Perils of AI for Special Education: How AI Could Improve Inclusion But Risk Individualization of the IEP
3.4 Hidden in Plain Sight: advocacy against excuses for lack of LD remediation after IEP Meetings
3.5 IDEA, ADA and 504: Effective representation of youth in residential treatment centers
3.6 Considerations for the Education and Advocacy of Transition-Age Foster Youth
3.7 Ethical Considerations When Representing Students With Parents Who Aren't On the Same Page 
3.8 Special Education Policy at the State and Local Levels: Emerging Issues for Students with Disabilities and Their Families
3.9 Special Education Class Action: Practice Tips, Survival Skills, Winning Strategies: JR v Oxnard Schl Dist Case Study

Breakout Session 4

4.1 Consent: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
4.2 Ensuring Access to Special Education for Incarcerated Students with Disabilities
4.3 How to Create Strength-Based IEPs
4.4 Securing Appropriate Services for Students Who Exhibit School Attendance Issues Related to their Disabilities
4.5 The Missing School Bus: An Overview of Class Action Litigation and Transportation for Students with Disabilities
4.6 Education Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Students: Understanding the Intersection of Disability and LGBTQ+ Identity
4.7 Transition Services: Undiscovered Treasures/Missed Opportunities
4.8 How to Open a New Special Education Law or Advocacy Practice
4.9 Decoding "Evidence-Based": Understanding the Levels of Evidence in Effective Intervention

Breakout Session 5

5.1 - Trial Tactics from a Trial Lawyer
5.2 - Adapting IEPs and FBAs for Students with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)
5.3 - Strategies for Successful Advocacy in IEP Meetings
5.4 - Putting Together the Pieces of the Autism Litigation Puzzle: Key Case Examples of Current Trends and Topics
5.5 - Making a Case for Inclusion
5.6 - Public records: The most underutilized weapon in special education 
5.7 - Fighting Policies & Practices Used To Skirt IDEA Disciplinary Protections
5.8 - Effective Dispute Resolution: Empowering Parents and Advocates to Navigate Conflicts and Foster Collaborative Relationships in Schools.
5.9 - A More Successful Transition to Post-Secondary Education: What You Need to Know and Advocate For

Breakout Session 6

6.1 Operation Smooth Transition: Maneuvering Special Education for Military Families
6.2 Alternatives to Guardianship: Supported Decision Making Chloe Palmer
6.3 Beyond Restraint: SROs and the Criminalization of Disability-Related Behaviors
6.4 The Logic and Leverage of Endrew F. in Special Education Litigation
6.5 Succession - the Lawyers' Edition 6.6 Representing Students in Bullying Cases: A Primer for Attorneys and Advocates
6.7 Translating Evaluations and Creating Comprehensive, Functional, Whole-Student IEPs
6.8 Equity and Organizing in Grassroots and Community Based Advocacy for Students With Disabilities
6.9 Best Advocacy Tips and Strategies for Creative and Promising School Mental Health Initiatives In Lieu of Punitive, Excl. School Discipline