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Parke Christopher T. Carlson Raymond Manigault Daniel J. Ossoff Julia Manzella Kathleen King Parker A. Silvana Giner Michael M. Robinson Peter M. Rosenblum Colin M. Korzec Jessie Marshall Susan M. Walsh Benjamin Monopoli Adam J. Ruttenberg Melissa Langa Peter Wittenborg George W. Tetler III Lisa A.H. McChesney Keith Morse Joshua S. Miller Kristof Nelson Cornelius J. Murray III Kevin J. Nihill Lisa M. Rico Elizabeth Phillips Jay D. Rosenbaum Sebastian Sansone John F. Shoro Beatriz Valdes Craig A. Standish Kurt Russell Steinkrauss Anne Marie Towle iv About the Faculty JAMES M. BARON is a solo attorney in Waltham. He is a member of the bar in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Florida, as well as the U.S. District Courts in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Mr. Baron handles a wide variety of education-related legal matters, ranging from special education to discipline to disputes involving college and university students. He has pre- sented on special education issues for MCLE, Massachusetts Advocates for Children, the Federa- tion for Children with Special Needs, and the Asperger’s Association of New England. He has also presented on the topic of “Running Your Own Special Education Law Practice” at the 2014 and 2015 annual conferences of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA). At the 2017 COPAA conference, he presented on “Using Technology to Handle Student Records and Gain the Edge, from Intake through Hearing.” Mr. Baron has served as a guardian ad li- tem/education advocate for the Massachusetts Juvenile Court. He also serves on the board of di- rectors of the Greater Waltham ARC and the Waltham Community Foundation. As a member of the Law Review at Suffolk University Law School, Mr. Baron published an article entitled “When Good Intentions Go Bad: The MCAS Graduation Requirement and Special Education Children.” He has been selected as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in the area of school law from 2011–2017, and has been running his own law practice since passing the bar exam. He is a co- founder, board member, and immediate past-president of Starting Out Solo, a group whose mis- sion is to provide support, education, mentoring, and networking to lawyers who started their own law practice as a first legal career step out of law school. Mr. Baron earned his bachelor of arts degree from Brandeis University, his master’s degree in education from Emmanuel College, where he also earned a Massachusetts teaching certification, and his law degree from Suffolk University Law School.