Lenore A. Silverman

In her venerated legal career, Lenore Silverman has helped clients resolve countless problems and conflicts relating to special education and student matters. As she shifts into an of counsel-status, Lenore continues to enrich the firm and its clients by drawing on her keen insight into the realities of what schools and their governing organizations experience and how to keep them legally compliant while best addressing their challenges. Special education issues tend to elicit emotional responses, and Lenore always approaches these situations with sensitivity and common sense.

A nationally recognized leader in issues related to special education and emerging technologies, Lenore is a popular speaker who has presented at various education-related symposiums, meetings, and conferences. She participates regularly in the National School Boards Association’s Council of School Attorneys and previously served as president of the California Council of School Attorneys.

Lenore truly enjoys mentoring young attorneys and helping them become comfortable and confident with in their practice of law. She’s gratified to pass along the platform of legal acumen and contacts she’s built up over more than three decades as an attorney.

Passionate about children’s well-being, Lenore anticipates working on developing highly comprehensive mental health programs for students and their families that would allow youth to be treated in their own communities instead of out of state.