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Charles W. Jelley, Esq., has an LL.M. in Health Law, having graduated from the University of Loyola School of Law, Institute for Health Law in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Jelley was Co-Editor of the Institute's first health law journal, The Annuals of Health Law. In 1991, Mr. Jelly's LLM Thesis focused on the anti-discrimination provision in Section 504, the Americans' with Disability Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Action (ERISA) to persons with disabilities seeking health insurance.

For twenty plus years, Mr. Jelley was the solicitor for the Parent Education Network (PEN) the first IDEA Parent Training Initiative Grant funded in Pennsylvania. From 1980-1991, Mr. Jelley worked for Westmoreland County Association as a Lay Advocate, the Director of Educational and Legislative Advocacy, and then as the Agency Executive Director. For the past 36 years, Mr. Jelley has participated in IEP's, conference, due process hearings and federal/state court review of hearing officer decisions. He is the former Solicitor for the Westmoreland County American Red Cross and Spectrum Charter School. Mr. Jelley is a past case editor of the Westmoreland County Law Review and is a past member of the Bar Association Rules Publications Committee, and was an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Exceptional Children's Committee. Mr. Jelley regularly presenter at the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Exceptional Children's Conference. In 2016, Mr. Jelley left his private practice to become one of the six full time special education hearings officers at the Office for Dispute Resolution. While in private practice Mr. Jelley, provide legal service for two religious orders that operate and provide private Catholic education for children with disabilities.