0:04 At Laviano and Gany, we want to make
0:06 good trouble. To make good trouble means
0:09 to use our system that is terribly
0:12 unfair for most people who need access
0:15 to justice accessible and meaningful.
0:17 And we feel that we're making good
0:20 trouble every day. I'm Jen Laviano. My
0:22 law firm is Laviano and Gany. We're
0:24 located in Connecticut. And I've been a
0:27 Cleo customer since 2011. I'm a second
0:29 generation special education lawyer. My
0:30 father started practicing special
0:33 education law in the 1980s. My mission
0:34 is to make sure that children with
0:36 disabilities receive the services that
0:38 they're entitled to so they can be
0:40 productive adults. About 15% of the
0:42 students who attend public schools in
0:44 this country have disabilities. It says
0:46 millions of children in our country who
0:48 are either going to be productive, happy
0:50 members of our society because we teach
0:51 them the right way and we give them
0:55 skills or they won't. We represent
0:57 families all over the state of
0:59 Connecticut who just don't understand
1:01 the legal rights. They don't understand
1:03 what their kids are entitled to. We
1:05 understand what those rights are and we
1:06 go in there and we advocate and make
1:09 sure that our clients are receiving the
1:10 programming and services that they're
1:13 entitled to. I entered uh the legal
1:15 profession for very personal reasons. I
1:17 am the mother of a 29-year-old named
1:19 Ryan who is profoundly autistic and
1:22 intellectually disabled. When he was 5
1:24 years old, I hired a special education
1:27 attorney for him. Through his advocacy,
1:28 it changed the whole trajectory of
1:32 Ryan's life. And so, at 44 years old, I
1:34 went to law school full-time so that I
1:37 could represent families like mine and
1:39 hopefully have the same impact that my
1:40 special education attorney had on our
1:43 family. Kids with disabilities have the
1:46 right to a free and appropriate public
1:48 education and they have a right to have
1:50 access to programming and services that
1:52 meets their needs just like other
1:55 students do. The impact of advocating
1:56 for children with disabilities for
1:59 almost 30 years is tremendous. For the
2:01 children we represent, it's really
2:03 wonderful to see them blossom and grow.
2:06 when they feel that they are now being
2:08 empowered and that they're learning,
2:09 they're actually learning along with
2:12 their non-disabled peers. That's
2:14 incredible. It's transformative is what
