Maryland Education Lawyers

I began practicing law in 1996. Since then, I have helped many clients in Maryland and the District of Columbia with their family law issues, including high-conflict divorces, custody cases involving special needs children, and premarital and postmarital agreements. I am an experienced litigator, but is also a trained Collaborative practitioner and trained mediator.

For the last twelve years I have also represented numerous students and families in education matters, including school discipline in public and private schools, and campus sexual assault, Title IX cases and academic misconduct cases at the college level.

I have 23 years experience representing parties in divorce, custody, child support, visitation, paternity, and guardianship matters. My goal is to plan for trial from the initial client meeting forward, while at the same time attempting to construct a reasonable settlement for my clients either directly with the other party or through mediation. I was certified as a Collaborative Practitioner March 2011. In addition to representing clients locally, Mr. Bach has extensive experience representing clients involved in international family disputes including divorce, child custody, division of property and family assets, as well as retirement benefits. He has successfully handled...

Lynndolyn Mitchell has represented clients in domestic, traffic and criminal litigation matters in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia for over two decades. Ms. Mitchell begin her legal career with Juvenile defenders in her hometown of Santa Ana California. Ms. Mitchell has recently expanded her practice to representing military members in Veterans benefits issues and representing special education students at Individual Education Program (IEP) meetings. Lynndolyn Mitchell served as a senior assistant public defender in Virginia Beach, Virginia and deputy public defender in Riverside, California. Ms. Mitchell represents individuals from all economic, social and cultural...

Mr. Burkhouse is a partner at Pessin Katz Law, P.A. His practice includes labor and employment litigation, education law, construction, and business litigation. Mr. Burkhouse represents both public and private sector clients regarding a wide array of litigation-related issues. Mr. Burkhouse also counsels employers on legal compliance issues including wage/hour policies, reasonable accommodation of disabilities, and employee discrimination issues. As an active member of the PK Law Education and School law practice, Mr. Burkhouse has litigated cases for a number of the firm's school board clients in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, as...

Ashley VanCleef is not only an experienced education law attorney but also a certified special educator. She has served students with disabilities as special education teacher, school and state level administrator, and school attorney. Prior to forming Law for Parents, Ashley's experience as a special education attorney included working for the Law Office of Brian K. Gruber, staff attorney for Montgomery County Public School in Maryland, as well as Supervisor and 504 Coordinator for the Resolution and Compliance Unit. Ms. VanCleef instituted informal, collaborative solutions to assist families and school system staff to resolve concerns through the least...

Jonathan Webb practices primarily in the areas of criminal defense, DUI/DWI defense, family law, civil litigation, and Title IX proceedings. Jonathan joined Ethridge Quinn in 2020 after spending over four years as an Assistant Public Defender with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. Born and raised in California, Jonathan moved to Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area in 2005. He graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance. Jonathan attended the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law (“UDC-DCSL”). While attending law school, he was an Associate Editor for the UDC-DCSL Law Review,...

Robert V. Clark has been a personal injury and malpractice trial lawyer for forty years in the courts of Maryland and the the District of Columbia. Mr. Clark has represented thousands of victims of personal injury and malpractice and has collected many millions of dollars on their behalf. His firm, Clark and Steinhorn, LLC, is based in Prince Georges County Maryland, located at 9101 Cherry Lane Suite 204 Laurel, Md. 20708. The firm represents individuals and their families in cases involving a host of personal injury, malpractice and wrongful death matters. These include truck, car, bus, motorcycle, pedestrian ...

Highly skilled, special education attorney. 25 years experience in special education, advocating for students and their families. Over 1500 IEP meetings attended. Successful special education trial and appellate litigator, with several published decision. Entertaining, high-energy public speaker on all topics related to public education.

Nicole’s education law practice focuses on representing children with disabilities in the special education process, including diagnosis or identification, IEP development, progress monitoring, and mediation or administrative hearings, as well as suspension and expulsion appeals and juvenile justice system involvement. Nicole often represents students with learning disabilities, dyslexia, autism, ADHD, and emotional and behavioral disabilities. Nicole also advocates for people with disabilities in the process of obtaining and maintaining services through Maryland Medicaid, Medicaid Waivers and other State programs.

Life-long resident of Montgomery County, MD. More than thirty years experience helping families to solve practical problems for wealth succession. Planning for special needs individuals. Education advocacy for students with disabilities.

ATTORNEY & OWNER Muriel Tinkler, Esq. helps clients deal with some of life's most stressful situations related to aging, caring for yourself and ensuring the care of your family after you are gone. Muriel Tinkler has worked with children and families with special needs for many years. She has been a registered foster/resource parent with the State of Maryland since 2011, and has worked with community and non-legal organizations to help support and expand services to these communities. Muriel Tinkler has a passion for helping people with disabled dependents. Because of this she focuses on areas that affect people with disabilities in...