Paul and S, Clients

“We have been working with Tracey since 2010 when she first represented us in our attempts to get appropriate school placing and home therapy for our severely autistic son. We had been suffering from increasingly inadequate support, and as his behavior declined we had taken the daunting step of putting him in a costly private school as the only viable option. Tracey from the start was brilliant: she thought both in immediate and strategic terms of what we needed as a family then and what we would need in the future. And then went ahead in a calm, wholly committed and profoundly competent way to get it for us, year in, year out, without fail. Over the last six years she has closely monitored every stage of the development of our son’s needs and then gone about meeting them, straining to secure appropriate settlements and quickly and painlessly resolving hearings when they were not forthcoming. Her long experience and inside knowledge are impressive, and she consistently goes way beyond her professional obligations in caring for the families she represents; last year, for example, she drafted a letter in reply to our neighbors’ threats of legal action within 24 hours. Tracey’s mastery of special education law in New York may be unparalleled, and she sees her clients not just as individual students, parents, or indeed clients, but as families. There are some people whose jobs are, more than jobs, genuine vocations, and to our great good luck Tracey is one of them. That our family has managed to stay together through these years it is in large part due to her.”