Elena Jill Eisenberg

My oldest granddaughter has learning disabilities that require her to have an IEP. I tried to work directly with the teachers and school administration to address my concerns about the IEP not being adhered to by her teacher. At one point the executive director yelled at me and said the school had do...ne everything for my granddaughter and that perhaps it was time to “part ways”. I told the director my granddaughter wasn't the problem - it was the teacher who lacked the skills to teach, let alone teach a student with special needs. In charter schools, teachers do not have to have teaching degrees so this teacher literally did not know how to teach my granddaughter. After attempting to work within the school system, including the Charter School Institute, a friend of mine provided me Elena Eisenberg’s contact information. I reached out to Elena and explained to her the situation. Elena immediately went to work reviewing Kenndra’s IEP and developed a course of action that included advocating for Kenndra. As a result the following was accomplished: the school paid the full expense for a neuropsychological evaluation (serving to inform the development of Kenndra’s IEP), Elena participating in the IEP meeting and providing valuable input to ensure provision of accommodations and identification of meaningful metrics so that Kenndra’s IEP is now comprehensive, and finally, the transfer of Kenndra to another teacher who was better equipped to teach her. I highly recommend Elena Eisenberg to anyone encountering the same issues my granddaughter faced. Elena is very knowledgeable about education law and will be an advocate for your child!

We hired her after explaining in detail what was going on with our son as we wanted to be fully up front and what we intended to accomplish and we wanted to know "her plan" to decide if she understood and supported fully our son's position. As we have used reputable attorneys in the past, we had a... fairly good idea of what the process should look like to address discrimination and IEP violations. She stated in the initial call and in a second call that she move to due process if she could not get the school to follow his IEP as we had a "strong" case but $7500 later, not even an IEP meeting has been set up and our son seems to be in no better position than the day we hired her. When we asked her when she would be filing the due process as discussed, she resigned and stated she would "discount" some fees she charged and return some of our money. She didn't return many emails timely and even seemed to forget what she was supposed to be working on - but would bill us for reminding her, or course, when we would call her to ask her "the plan" as we were very concerned she wasn't diligently working on our case. When we asked her to talk about the bill in writing several times (for an obvious lack of any meaningful progress) and that we found items questionable on the bill, she did not respond. She would tell us how busy she was all the time on another case and ask us to 'remind her again' where we were at on our case (and then bill us for reminding her of course). For $7500 you would at least think she would have gone to ONE IEP meeting or filed a due process, right? We would definitely not recommend her. .