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Attorney Dan Heffernan to Speak in Watertown 12/9
THE WATERTOWN SEPAC IS PROUD TO PRESENT "Special Education Law – Recent Developments and Future Trends."
Wednesday, December 9th 2015
Cunniff School Library 246 Warren Street, Watertown
Business meeting at 6:00 p.m. Speaker at 6:30 pm
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This event is free and open to the public
Childcare and refreshments are provided
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Mr. Heffernan has extensive trial experience and has litigated numerous complex cases throughout the Commonwealth and across the country. He has served on the faculty of Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Program, instructing law students in trial preparation and trial techniques. From 1995 to the present he has served on the board of directors of the Federation for Children with Special Needs and was board president from 1995 to 2007.
In 2014 he received the 2014 President’s Award from the Federation for Children with Special Needs. In 2002, he and his wife, Julie, received the Dr. Allen C. Crocker Award for Excellence from the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. He writes and lectures frequently on special education law and advocacy. Mr. Heffernan has been named a Super Lawyer in special education law every year since 2005 and was named as a Top Rated Lawyer in Education by The Boston Globe in 2012. From 1995 to 2000, he served as the president of the board of directors of Community Legal Services and Counseling Center. He also serves on the MDSC Education Task Force.
He has two daughters, Maggie and Evie, and a twenty-one year old son, Brian, with Down syndrome.
