Chigozie Frances Odediran

Our family had the pleasure to work with Goz Odediran with a K-12 level appeal matter. We had little or no previous experience or knowledge of education attorneys and our association with Goz was a result of a last minute, desperation Google search. Although we wish we would have contacted Goz earl...ier in the legal process, we are so thankful we did. Goz quickly and efficiently got up to speed with the legal aspects of our education issue and was able to guide our child to a successful appeal resolution, through her expertise of the relevant legal codes; providing wise counsel in regard to how we presented ourselves and our case; and being a strong voice and advocate for our child. She took control of the appeal hearing, but in a manner that gave and commanded respect. Our appeal issue was resolved very quickly with Goz driving the process. That being said, what set Goz apart in our experience was the connection she was able to make with our family. Right off the bat, starting from our initial consultation, we knew Goz was the right person for us to work with. She took the time to get to know us and our child and to hear us and our concerns. She showed great patience to hear us out, demonstrated empathy and gave us a great deal of emotional support and encouragement from start to finish. The longer we were associated with Goz we got the sense that education law is more than a job to her, but a calling. She cares deeply about the mission and her clients. We are proud to recommend Goz Odediran as a highly skilled education attorney and a wonderful person that can be trusted and counted upon.

I highly recommend Goz Odediran as an education rights attorney. She helped my daughter navigate a student code of conduct disciplinary hearing involving a highly sensitive situation my daughter experienced in her first year of college. With less than three weeks to review the details of the case and... prepare my daughter for the hearing, Goz jumped right in! She helped my daughter identify weaknesses in the university's case, found supporting research evidence to present at the hearing, and worked tirelessly with my daughter to prepare her to be her own best advocate. My daughter had a positive outcome to her hearing in no small part because of Goz's legal counsel. Fortunately, my daughter no longer attends this university and can move on with her life. When the university and its staff let my daughter down, Goz did not. Goz is a compassionate, skilled, and diligent attorney who will advocate for her clients in navigating large educational systems that often fail the students they are supposed to protect and serve.

My family and I recently had the pleasure of working with Goz Odediran who went above and beyond to help my son with autism transition into the public school system. Goz was professional, knowledgeable, and compassionate from the first consultation to the final outcome. She took the time to listen to... my concerns and priorities and worked tirelessly to ensure that my son received the best possible education. I was impressed by her attention to detail and ability to easily navigate complex legal issues. Thanks to her hard work and dedication, my son is now thriving in his new school, and our family is forever grateful. She continues to check in on us to make sure the school is following through. She genuinely cares about my son and is dedicated to giving children with special needs and families the voice they need to advocate for their best interests. If you need a special education attorney, look no further, Goz is hands down the best.

You can't ask for a better, more devoted attorney, than Ms. Odediran! I am blessed to have had her as my son's attorney! She is professional, experienced, highly effective, as well as, dedicated to her clients. She genuinely cares, which is almost impossible to find in an attorney. Her knowledge ...of educational law, profoundly effective the outcome of my sons case!

My son was involved in an incident with his best friend at school from horseplay. The school didn’t take into account the testimony of the other children who was witness to the incident that my son was involved in and they seem really determined with their assessment. With Goz’s help and involvemen...t, she advised us how to proceed in the hearing for the incident, what to say or not say to build a case for my son. She came prepared with prints of the school’s policy and was very articulate in describing why my son’s character from what information we had given her and of the incident proved that the course of action that the school was pursuing, my son didn’t fit the bill of the school’s policy for their course of action. If the school didn’t change their mind, this could have affected my son’s future and after countless calls with the school and feeling that they didn’t really care to carefully examine what we had found out from the children that were involved, we retained Goz. First thing she told me is that the school will typically try to push the punishment that wasn’t fit for the “crime” and will basically ignore our pleas, really resonated with me because that was what we went through. No matter how we explained and told them about the witnesses description of what happened, they seemed to want to continue the push to punish my son unfairly even though he wasn’t the instigator. I am happy with the results because I don’t think I would have gotten the school to listen to me without an attorney present. Before this incident, I had total faith in our school and their admins so if you think you can reason with the school regarding what you feel to be an unfair potential disciplinary action and the potential actions don’t fit the crime and you feel that you are not being heard, then I would suggest to think twice about retaining an attorney and Goz is very familiar with the law and school’s policy to help you fight it. The outcome from our hearing probably saved my son’s future for college.