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When a school decision could change your child’s future, you need more than general information. Get focused education-law guidance from a firm that advocates for parents and students—not school districts.
Your child has rights. The school has procedures. You deserve a strategy.
Serious injury or assault?
If a student suffered a serious injury or experienced a physical or sexual assault, contact the firm directly. Depending on the facts, the case may be reviewed without a LISS.
Choose the right starting point
These services solve different problems. Choose based on the kind of help you need.
For discipline, college matters, legal rights, disputes, and situations requiring analysis and strategy from an education lawyer.
For parents who want a focused review of their child’s current IEP or 504 plan and practical educational advocacy guidance.
When something feels wrong
School disputes can move quickly—and the language around IEPs, ESE, Section 504, FAPE, evaluations, placement, and discipline can make a serious situation feel impossible to navigate.
Montgomery Law helps Palm Beach County families understand what happened, what rules may apply, and which next steps deserve careful consideration.
Education-law matters
Questions about services, goals, placement, implementation, or whether an Individualized Education Program meets your child’s needs.
Exceptional Student Education eligibility, identification, evaluations, and disputes over appropriate supports.
Accommodation disputes, implementation failures, and disability-related access concerns under Section 504.
Requests for independent educational evaluations and disagreements about school-based testing or conclusions.
Physical or sexual assault, serious injury, bullying, harassment, and other incidents affecting a student’s safety and education.
Plagiarism, cheating, suspension, expulsion, manifestation determinations, and other high-stakes disciplinary proceedings.
Academic misconduct, student conduct allegations, disciplinary hearings, suspension, expulsion, and appeals involving college students.
College and university disputes involving accommodations, discrimination, due process, safety, enrollment, and student rights.
Disputes involving whether a public-school program is appropriate and whether another placement may be necessary.
Concerns about a free appropriate public education, procedural protections, discrimination, and access to services.
Florida special education law
Florida schools are expected to develop programs that serve students effectively and provide eligible students a free appropriate public education. The Florida Department of Education’s Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services supports statewide implementation and training.
A clear first step
Describe the decision, dispute, deadline, and outcome you are worried about.
Relevant notices, educational records, policies, evaluations, and timelines help clarify the legal landscape.
Understand the options, risks, and practical next steps before the school makes the next move.
Why Montgomery Law
School-related disputes have their own procedures, vocabulary, deadlines, and remedies. Families benefit from counsel who can see how the educational records, disability protections, disciplinary rules, and local process fit together.
Local coverage
The original page’s complete school coverage is preserved below. Expand a group to find your child’s school, or visit the Palm Beach County School District’s official school directory.
Palm Beach County education lawyer FAQ
Consider contacting counsel when a school decision may seriously affect your child, an IEP or 504 dispute is not resolving, discipline is escalating, records appear inconsistent, or a meeting, hearing, appeal, suspension, or expulsion deadline is approaching.
No. Montgomery Law advocates for parents and students and does not represent the School District.
Useful records may include the current and prior IEP or 504 plan, evaluations, progress reports, disciplinary notices, relevant emails, meeting notices, school policies, and a short timeline of what happened. Do not delay contacting counsel solely because every record is not available.
An education lawyer can review the notice, policies, evidence, deadlines, disability protections, and available hearing or appeal procedures. The specific options depend on the facts and applicable law.
Yes. College matters may involve conduct allegations, academic misconduct, disciplinary hearings, suspension, expulsion, accommodations, discrimination, safety, enrollment, appeals, and other student-rights concerns.
Not necessarily. If a student suffered a serious injury or experienced a physical or sexual assault, contact the firm directly. Depending on the facts, the matter may be reviewed without purchasing a LISS first.
A LISS is a legal information and strategy session with a lawyer. The RMR—Review, Meet, Report—is a separate $475 non-legal educational advocacy service focused on reviewing a child’s current IEP or 504 plan, meeting with Dr. Mary Montgomery, and providing a written advocacy report. The RMR does not include legal advice or legal representation and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
The Florida office is located at 631 US 1, Suite 202, North Palm Beach, Florida 33408. Call 561-408-1100 to discuss scheduling.
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