Lehigh University's College of Education

Spring/Summer 2008

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CARYL ANDREA OBERMAN, ESQ., is the principal of the law firm that bears her name. For more than three decades, her practice has concentrated on the legal needs of persons with disabilities and their families, and of gifted students. She has lectured and published extensively in the areas of civil rights, education rights, and estate planning, especially for families of children with disabilities. Formerly law clerk to the Hon. Merna B. Marshall (Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas), director of the Legal Department of Philadelphia Association of Retarded Citizens, senior staff attorney at the Education Law Center and litigation consultant at the Disabilities Law Project, she has served on the boards of numerous agencies advocating for children and adults with disabilities and serves as a hearing officer for the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. Ms. Oberman has been an adjunct professor of School Law in the graduate education programs of Arcadia University, Holy Family University, Cabrini College and Antioch University. She received her B.A. with Honors in Political Philosophy from Syracuse University in 1971 and her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law in 1974. Her firm serves families in the eastern half of Pennsylvania, with offices in Willow Grove (Montgomery County).