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D. Luray Wallace
Attorney Ray Wallace is a former high school teacher and counselor whose legal
practice reflects his concern for the rights and needs of children. He
represents children and parents in education law cases, including special
education and school discipline, in juvenile court matters, including
delinquency, CHINS, and Care and Protection, and in criminal matters.
Before entering
private practice, Attorney Wallace served as Managing Attorney at Southeastern
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation for ten years. While there, he
started the Education Law Project, which still provides free legal assistance to
low income families in southeastern Massachusetts. Before that, he taught at
Boston College Law School, in the Legal Assistance Bureau, and represented the
state’s Medicaid program in state and federal litigation.
Attorney Wallace was
the founding Chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Children's Rights
Committee and is past president of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. He
is on the Advisory Board of the Children's Law Support Project at Massachusetts
Advocates for Children and works with various other groups promoting the rights
of children.
Attorney Wallace
received his B.S. degree in Education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
and his J.D., cum
laude, from Boston College Law
School.
Sam Schoenfeld
Attorney Sam Schoenfeld practices in the areas of special education, school
discipline, care and protection (child welfare), delinquency, guardianships,
child visitation and employee benefits matters such as plan participants’ rights
and Qualified Domestic Relations Orders. He has been appointed by the Norfolk
County Juvenile Court to serve as guardian ad litem in juvenile court cases.
Attorney Schoenfeld has presented lectures to Parent Advisory Councils on topics
such as the interplay of MCAS testing and the rights of disabled students. Prior
to joining the Wallace Law Office, Attorney Schoenfeld worked as an expert in
the area of employee benefits for 16 years where he directed the legal/technical
services departments of consulting firms. He is a certified mediator who has
handled civil and criminal disputes referred from the Boston Municipal Court.
Attorney Schoenfeld received his B.A. degree,
cum laude,
in Political Science from Brooklyn College, City University of New York and his
J.D., cum laude,
from New England School of Law. He has been a member of the Massachusetts Bar
since 1977.
Carol King
Attorney
Carol King practices in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the areas of special
education law, family law and children's law, and does mediation work. She
graduated from Oberlin College
magna cum laude
in 1973, and from the Ohio State
University College of Law
cum laude,
in 1979. After graduation, Attorney King
worked for the Ohio Legal Rights Service, a state-wide disability law center.
She then entered private practice. In 1989 and left private practice to teach
civil litigation and mediation at the Ohio State Law School Clinical Program.
Attorney King then joined the faculty at Roger Williams University School of
Law. She was in charge of the Family Law Clinic and taught trial practice and
alternative dispute resolution. Attorney King has published several articles on
law and mediation. Before joining the Wallace Law Office, Attorney King was at
Southeastern Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation, where she served as
managing attorney.
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