"Tracey is, without a doubt, one of the best litigators out there. She is an extraordinarily passionate and dedicated advocate who has the right mix of compassion, intelligence, commitment and fierce determination. I know her as a fellow colleague but if I ever needed an education attorney, she would be my first choice."
"I have worked with a number of attorneys at different times in my career I can easily say that Ms. Walsh is among the most diligent, talented, and dedicated I have known. In addition, Ms. Walsh is easy to work with. She is very clear in her requirements, helpful in resolving problems, and always aware of the details I may I have missed. I have no reservations in offering her my recommendation."
"Tracey is an excellent legal advocate for children with special needs and their families. She has a broad knowledge of special education and disability services for children and adults with special needs."
"Tracey knows how to help families with special needs. She has deep experience with the Disabilities law and was able to assist us in achieving a good outcome for our family."
"Tracey is extremely knowledgeable in the field of law. She is meticulous and detailed-oriented. I would highly recommend Tracey strongly to anyone and without reservation."
"Tracey is a seasoned advocate as well as a very strong litigator. Tracey has great expertise and knowledge within the field of special needs."
"We were new to the country, the system, and most importantly, to the diagnosis. We had identified what services our son needed but we did not know if we would be able to get them for him. This generated a great deal of anxiety and we knew things could go either way and that thought terrified us. As a parent of a child with autism, you have many battles to fight on your own. Tracey not only managed to ease our fears on a legal level but she also did on an emotional level. She was our support. She had our back and she was going to do all she could to fight for our son to get the services he desperately needed. She never gave up, she was sharp yet dignified and graceful in all her dealings. She always figures things out and is not outsmarted! She has optimism, empathy and legal prowess - a winning combination! As a result, we got the services we needed for our son. We also were given a great deal of support, comfort, advice, and information that would help to make life with autism easier. She made the entire process as effortless as possible and for that, we will be forever grateful!"
"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."
"I am so thankful that Tracey stood up for my son and me. Tracey empowered me at the time when I felt victimized. I cannot recommend her enough – she is honest, faithful and resolute in her pursuit of results for special needs families."
"My daughter is learning disabled and her needs were ignored by the school district for years. They never followed her recommended IEP, and when the elementary school gave her a 504 plan, at the start of Middle School the district removed the Plan without notifying me or my husband. The district gave my daughter a middle school diploma even though she had bad grades the whole time. In high school, she continued to struggle and started avoiding school. I didn't know the law then. I am a Spanish-speaking immigrant and we don't know what our legal rights are for school issues. I believed the school staff until I started to research how I could help my daughter. I decided I needed a lawyer to help me with this mess. I talked to 3 lawyers. They all told me there was nothing they could do until I found Tracey Walsh and I sent her all of the information. She told me she could help my daughter, and she did make this happen. She proved to our school district that, in fact, my daughter has a learning disability and ADD, and they finally offered to help my daughter without us having to go to court. Tracey's legal service made the district pay for all requested testing to prove my daughter had a disability, and after that, the school district held a resolution meeting with us and placed my daughter in a school that can help her with her problems. The district stopped ignoring my requests for help because they didn't want me to bring Tracey Walsh around. So now, my daughter is going to get the help that she needed for all these years, and only because of Tracey Walsh - she was the only lawyer that would get involved in my daughter's case."
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