Gutierrez, Perry & Villarreal (“GPV”) was founded on a desire to work with school districts and other local educational agencies (“LEA”) on a more personal level. At GPV, we believe that an individualized approach, with a better understanding of how your LEA operates, allows us to better serve your LEA. GPV is about preventative legal strategies, an ability to think outside the box, while considering what your LEA offers.
At GPV, our practice is student-centered, allowing us to assist your LEA with a wide range of issues, spanning from student discipline, records, fees, transfers, immunizations, independent study, Section 504 and the IEP process, as well as the impact of COVID-19 and its implications for schools. We know that now more than ever accurate, timely legal advice is needed. At GPV we work with you toward your desired outcome, providing thoughtful and experienced legal advice, so you can focus on what you do best, serving students.
We are strong proponents of staff training. Our trainings are unique and provide those in attendance with hands-on experience, practical legal advice, and tools and strategies that staff can use when returning to the school site, IEP or 504 table. We are constantly thinking of new formats for trainings and ways to better assist LEAs in understanding and applying current legal requirements. GPV provides a wide range of legal services from strategy, preventative legal advice and trainings, all the way through attendance at IEP meetings, mediations, due process hearings and appeals. Our passion for education is apparent in all that we do, and our commitment to students is what sets us apart.