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Carla Leader

Montgomery County, OH

Licensed for 20 years

Law Degree

Awards

Primary Practice Area

Child custody

Language

English

About

Carla Loon Leader, a Cincinnati native, recieved her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Women’s Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996. After working for a year in the university’s student affairs division, Carla moved to the District of Columbia to attend American University’s Washington College of Law. She graduated from law school cum laude in 2000. After a one year clerkship with the Honorable Ronna Lee Beck at the District of Columbia Superior Court, she began her career as a civil prosecutor of Child Abuse and Neglect cases for the D.C. Office of the Attorney General. Finally, after more than a decade in DC, she and her husband returned to Cincinnati in 2007 to raise their family, which now includes 12 year old Matthew and 8 year old Evan.Carla spent over 5 years working as an attorney for the Legal Aid Society in Cincinnati. During her Legal Aid tenure, Carla practiced consumer law and education law and advocacy, and gave many informative trainings on education law, particularly pertaining to children in foster care.Carla has now been practicing education privately since 2012.  Carla’s extensive knowledge and experience in education law makes her the perfect choice to guide you through the education system, ensuring that your child receives nothing but the best, and that you and your children are fully informed of your rights and entitlements within the public and private school systems.

Practices Areas

Child custody

Education Law

Language

English

Contact

Law Office of Carla Loon Leader, LLC8717 Tiburon DriveMontgomery, OH, 452498717 Tiburon DriveMontgomery, OH, 45249

Office: N/A

Website: N/A

Reviews

Jay
October 4, 2018

Upon entering a new school district we had some serious issues with our son and the school removed him. We didn't know what our legal rights were and starting calling attorneys with educational law as an area of expertise. Carla called me back and immediately I knew I was in good hands. She knew we had been wronged and that our process with the school was not what was supposed to happen. Everything moved very quickly from the point we hired her. She asked the right questions and gathered information by email, text messages, voicemails left, and filed the necessary paperwork the very next morning. By that afternoon we had a meeting scheduled with the school! Carla listened to what we wanted and communicated our position with the school and never once backed down. We were able to come to a very agreeable resolution in a very short amount of time. I would definitely recommend her to anyone looking for legal advice or representation when it comes to education law.

anonymous
December 11, 2017

We were working through the IEP process for our child and struggling with the school district for over two months. Recognizing that the school district was not working towards our child’s best interest we asked Carla to represent us. Her knowledge in this specialized field is exceptional and her professional/direct approach efficient. Wish we would have hired her sooner!

anonymous
February 4, 2017

We had been battling the school district for 3 years to get an IEP for our son. Carla was mentioned by our pediatrician as someone who could help. We immediately contacted her for an initial meeting. She told us that she would take our case and we hired her. She got results fast for our son and we can't thank her enough for her help in getting the IEP for our son.

anonymous
September 23, 2016

Carla assisted our family as we worked with our school district to establish an IEP for our child. Before we hired Carla the task felt daunting and confusing. However, these feelings quickly changed, as it was evident in our first conversation that Carla had the knowledge we were looking for to ensure that our child would be legally protected. Carla made sure that we received full benefits of the rights we were afforded in this situation. If we are ever in need of further services, Carla Loon Leader will be our first call.

Sid
May 6, 2016

Carla promptly sized up our situation and took action to ensure the right things began to happen immediately. We avoided what would surely have happened without her, and that would have been a tragedy. When a second issue developed she performed again.

anonymous
February 29, 2016

I was a client of this attorney. Our relationship lasted about a week before I fired her. This attorney spent most of the billable time arguing with us instead of helping our kid, and she charged us more than $1,000 for arguing with us. This attorney made our communication with our kid's school worse while she insisted all communications went through her, then she simply did nothing after the condition became worse.

Jay
October 4, 2018

Upon entering a new school district we had some serious issues with our son and the school removed him. We didn't know what our legal rights were and starting calling attorneys with educational law as an area of expertise. Carla called me back and immediately I knew I was in good hands. She knew we had been wronged and that our process with the school was not what was supposed to happen. Everything moved very quickly from the point we hired her. She asked the right questions and gathered information by email, text messages, voicemails left, and filed the necessary paperwork the very next morning. By that afternoon we had a meeting scheduled with the school! Carla listened to what we wanted and communicated our position with the school and never once backed down. We were able to come to a very agreeable resolution in a very short amount of time. I would definitely recommend her to anyone looking for legal advice or representation when it comes to education law.

anonymous
December 11, 2017

We were working through the IEP process for our child and struggling with the school district for over two months. Recognizing that the school district was not working towards our child’s best interest we asked Carla to represent us. Her knowledge in this specialized field is exceptional and her professional/direct approach efficient. Wish we would have hired her sooner!

anonymous
February 4, 2017

We had been battling the school district for 3 years to get an IEP for our son. Carla was mentioned by our pediatrician as someone who could help. We immediately contacted her for an initial meeting. She told us that she would take our case and we hired her. She got results fast for our son and we can't thank her enough for her help in getting the IEP for our son.

anonymous
September 23, 2016

Carla assisted our family as we worked with our school district to establish an IEP for our child. Before we hired Carla the task felt daunting and confusing. However, these feelings quickly changed, as it was evident in our first conversation that Carla had the knowledge we were looking for to ensure that our child would be legally protected. Carla made sure that we received full benefits of the rights we were afforded in this situation. If we are ever in need of further services, Carla Loon Leader will be our first call.

Sid
May 6, 2016

Carla promptly sized up our situation and took action to ensure the right things began to happen immediately. We avoided what would surely have happened without her, and that would have been a tragedy. When a second issue developed she performed again.

anonymous
February 29, 2016

I was a client of this attorney. Our relationship lasted about a week before I fired her. This attorney spent most of the billable time arguing with us instead of helping our kid, and she charged us more than $1,000 for arguing with us. This attorney made our communication with our kid's school worse while she insisted all communications went through her, then she simply did nothing after the condition became worse.

Jay
October 4, 2018

Upon entering a new school district we had some serious issues with our son and the school removed him. We didn't know what our legal rights were and starting calling attorneys with educational law as an area of expertise. Carla called me back and immediately I knew I was in good hands. She knew we had been wronged and that our process with the school was not what was supposed to happen. Everything moved very quickly from the point we hired her. She asked the right questions and gathered information by email, text messages, voicemails left, and filed the necessary paperwork the very next morning. By that afternoon we had a meeting scheduled with the school! Carla listened to what we wanted and communicated our position with the school and never once backed down. We were able to come to a very agreeable resolution in a very short amount of time. I would definitely recommend her to anyone looking for legal advice or representation when it comes to education law.

anonymous
December 11, 2017

We were working through the IEP process for our child and struggling with the school district for over two months. Recognizing that the school district was not working towards our child’s best interest we asked Carla to represent us. Her knowledge in this specialized field is exceptional and her professional/direct approach efficient. Wish we would have hired her sooner!

anonymous
February 4, 2017

We had been battling the school district for 3 years to get an IEP for our son. Carla was mentioned by our pediatrician as someone who could help. We immediately contacted her for an initial meeting. She told us that she would take our case and we hired her. She got results fast for our son and we can't thank her enough for her help in getting the IEP for our son.

anonymous
September 23, 2016

Carla assisted our family as we worked with our school district to establish an IEP for our child. Before we hired Carla the task felt daunting and confusing. However, these feelings quickly changed, as it was evident in our first conversation that Carla had the knowledge we were looking for to ensure that our child would be legally protected. Carla made sure that we received full benefits of the rights we were afforded in this situation. If we are ever in need of further services, Carla Loon Leader will be our first call.

Sid
May 6, 2016

Carla promptly sized up our situation and took action to ensure the right things began to happen immediately. We avoided what would surely have happened without her, and that would have been a tragedy. When a second issue developed she performed again.

anonymous
February 29, 2016

I was a client of this attorney. Our relationship lasted about a week before I fired her. This attorney spent most of the billable time arguing with us instead of helping our kid, and she charged us more than $1,000 for arguing with us. This attorney made our communication with our kid's school worse while she insisted all communications went through her, then she simply did nothing after the condition became worse.