Law Office of Peter D. Hoffman, PC - Concentration in Special Education Law

The Law Office of Peter D. Hoffman, P.C.  is a group of experienced and talented attorneys who deliver effective and efficient representation and counsel.  We are all about providing outstanding personalized service to clients who come to us for help.

Clients of the firm benefit from our practice of tailoring our services to meet your unique needs. We believe in making you an integral part of our team as we work through the legal process from start to finish.

We emphasize open communication so you can make the best and most informed decisions. We are persistent advocates and attend to every aspect of your case, no matter how complex. We always strive to resolve your legal issues quickly, in the most efficient and affordable manner possible.

I am an attorney with two sons with disabilities. Before I became a lawyer I worked as a manager in the freight business. Upon the diagnosis of my eldest son as a person with severe hemophilia, during the Age of AIDS and the Hemophilia Holocaust, I knew that I had to seek justice for those less fortunate than myself and my son and that I had to do whatever legally possible to protect him from the scourge of AIDS and other viral diseases transmitted through the blood products that he and other persons with hemophilia were exposed.

As this journey started, I participated and represented several children with hemophilia and HIV in a successful mass tort litigation. During this effort, I learned that children with hemophilia could not receive life saving infusion services from public school nurses and that many private Montessori pre schools would not accept a child with hemophilia. This commenced my interest in children with disabilities and their right to a free and appropriate education.

Since 1996, I have been involved in litigating special education cases on behalf of parents and their special needs children. This has included attendeing Committee on Special Education, (CSE) Meetings, working to develop Individualized Education Plans, (IEPs), handling Impartial Hearings, writing and filing appeals to the Commissioner of Education’s State Review Officer, (SRO), and if necessary filing and litigating federal lawsuits to vindicate the rights of children with disabilities.

In this effort we routinely work with experts in the field of education and special education. These experts include but are not limited to audiologists, applied behavior analysis specialists, behaviorists, teach specialists, placement specialists, developmental pediatricians, psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists and more. We also have productive and cooperative relationships with several private therapeutic schools who provide programs and services for children with disabilities.

We have also worked with children who suffer from a wide variety of disabilities and multiple disabilities. Some of the special needs children we have worked with have been effected by the following disabilities: children within the Autistic Spectrum, Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified, (PDD-NOS), Aspergers Disease, Developmental Disorders, Dyslexia, Reading Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Speech and Language Disability, Audiological and Hearing Disabilities, Vision and Sight Disabilities, Emotional Disorders, Behavioral Disorders, Mental Retardation, Head and Brain Injuries, Mutism and Selective Mutism, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Schizophrenia, BiPolar Disorder, Cerebral Palsy, School Phobia, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, and others.

I and the lawyers that work in this firm are deeply committed to justice, in the form of a free and appropriate education, for children with disabilities. We believe that we can help parents of children with disabilities to find a free and appropriate education for their children with special needs.

Please contact us to learn your and your disabled child’s rights.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Attorney	Law Office of Peter D. Hoffman, P.C.		September 1993 – Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
City University of New York School of Law	J.D.	Law School	1993
Long Island University - Paralegal Studies Program	Paralegal		1977
Ursinus College	B.A.	History	1977

State / Court	Date
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois	2004
United States Federal Court of Claims	2004
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	2001
State of New York	2000
United States District Court for Washington, D.C.	2000
District of Columbia	1999
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit	1999
United States District Court for the Northern District of New York	1999
United states District Court for the Northern District of Texas	1999
United States Supreme Court	1999
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit	1996
United States District Court for the Eastern District of NY	1995
Untied States District Court Southern District of New York	1994
State of New Jersey	1993
United States District Court for New Jersey	1993

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