Education Advocacy Project
Carly J. Munson, Staff Attorney
Carly J. Munson is a staff attorney with the Disability Rights Legal Center’s Education Advocacy Program. Ms. Munson’s practice focuses on high-impact cases affecting students with disabilities that are eligible for special education and/or accommodations pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Rehabilitation Act and California law. In addition, she represents students and their families at due process hearings and Individualized Education Program meetings.
Ms. Munson is a 2006 graduate of the Boston University School of Law, where she was a staff writer for the Public Interest Law Journal. During law school, she was a law clerk for the Disability Rights Legal Center’s Education Advocacy Project. Ms. Munson joined the Disability Rights Legal Center's staff following her graduation from law school in 2006.
Ms. Munson co-chairs the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Juvenile Court Task Force and will co-teach a Special Education Law class at Loyola Law School in the spring of 2009.
Ms. Munson is admitted to practice in the State of California, the United States District Court, Central District of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.