Lisa McCauley Parles and Denise Rekem Special Education attorneys

Professional info

 

Alexis L. Greenberg, Esq., is a former teacher of students with language-based learning differences, the parent of a young child, and a passionate advocate for students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia. 

 

Following her graduation magna cum laude from Brown University, Ms. Greenberg began her professional career as a teacher in an independent school-within-a-school for students with dyslexia. Ms. Greenberg became immersed in the Orton-Gillingham approach and went on to complete the required 60 hours of classroom training for the Associate Level at the Orton-Gillingham Academy (formerly the Association of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators). 

 

Ms. Greenberg’s experiences with these students inspired her to attend law school. While at New York University School of Law, Ms. Greenberg served on the Review of Law and Social Change journal and joined the Children’s Rights Clinic, where she worked on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status cases at The Door in Manhattan. 

 

After her graduation from New York University School of Law, Ms. Greenberg worked for several years in the Litigation Department at Alston & Bird LLP in Manhattan and was an intern for two federal court judges.

 

Ms. Greenberg then transitioned into special education law, initially as a volunteer attorney in the Education Unit of Legal Services of New York – Bronx. Afterwards, she worked with established attorneys in the field before founding her own NYC-based special education firm. She was thereafter invited to join the Education Law Task Force of NYC. Through Legal Services of New York – Bronx, Ms. Greenberg developed and presented a Continuing Legal Education seminar on dyslexia to support and enhance the knowledge of special education attorneys working on learning differences cases in New York City.

 

Ms. Greenberg has been the Special Education Law speaker at the Orton-Gillingham Academy’s national conference for the past eight years. She also writes a special education column for the Orton-Gillingham Academy’s quarterly newsletter. Ms. Greenberg is a regular guest lecturer in courses at Manhattanville College and Sacred Heart University, including the Windward School/Manhattanville College - Rose Institute for Learning and Literacy partnership certificate in Dyslexia and the Science of Reading.

 

Ms. Greenberg and her young family divide their time between New York and New Jersey. When away from her desk, Ms. Greenberg enjoys reading, bike riding, singing in amateur choirs, and spending time by the ocean in her New Jersey hometown with her family.