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Overview
Rebecca Sassouni, Esq., PLLC
Attorney for Students, Children, Families OF COUNSEL
Rebecca understands the nexus of relationships among children, families, schools, and emerging law. Her practice consists of advising, consulting, and representing students of all ages in public and private school settings. Preserving and maximizing her clients’ prerogatives— whether via mediated or litigated outcomes, is Rebecca’s top priority. She brings strategic, compassionate, practical, economical, and consensus-minded approaches to serve her clients’ goals. Rebecca coaches her clients to grow and advocate for themselves after her role concludes. Long committed to community, families, and children, and to pro bono and public service, Sassouni is also an ordained rabbi, available to address civic groups, schools, Bar Associations, and SEPTAs.
EDUCATION
Hofstra University School of Law
Associate Editor, Hofstra Law Review
Barnard College, Columbia University
Cum laude, with Distinction in English Literature
Rabbi, Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute
CERTIFICATIONS
Long Island Dispute Resolution Center, Mediator, Custody & Visitation New York State IEP (Individualized Education Plan) Facilitator
ADMISSIONS
1996 York State Second Department
2016 Supreme Court of the United States
PRACTICE AREAS
Mediation Officiant Restorative Practice Special Education CSEs, IEPs, 504s Unilateral placement Tuition Reimbursement Bullying
Academic Integrity: Code of Conduct Violations Residency
Section 3214 Suspension Hearings Civil Liberties Gender Identity
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
March 2023 “R-E-S-P-E-C-T: The Legal Rights of LGBTQ+ Students” Nassau Suffolk Annual School Law Conference
November 2022 “Rights of Transgender Students” NCBA Women in Law Committee
October 2020 “Special Education in Time of COVID-19” Nassau Bar December 2019 Presenter, Nassau and Suffolk Academies of Law Annual School Law Conference “Seeing If There is a Better Way: A Look into Student Discipline As We Head into 2020”
July/August 2019 “Suspension of Students with Disabilities for Sexualized Utterances and Behaviors”
June 2019 Presenter, National Business Institute,”Successfully Represent Your Client with an Understanding of All the Issues”
December 2018 Presenter, Nassau and Suffolk Academies of Law Annual School Law Conference. “Special Education: Advantages and Disadvantages to Selecting Different Administrative Forums.”
October 2018 “Students Suspended for Participation in Instagram Group” December 2017 Presenter, Nassau and Suffolk Academies of Law Annual School Law Conference “Endrew F. – SCOTUS Rules on the Requirement to Provide a FAPE: The Decision and its Impact from the Perspectives of a School Attorney and a Parent Advocate”
July/August 2016 “NYSED Implements Pilot Program for IEP Facilitation” April 2016, Nassau County Bar Association, CLE “IEP Challenges: When is it OK to Look Outside the Box? Consideration of Prospective Evidence Beyond the Four Corners of the IEP”
November 2014 Nassau County Bar Association, “Recent Significant Decisions from the Second Circuit Involving Special Education”
LEADERSHIP/ PRO BONO/MEMBERSHIPS
-2025-2028 Director Nassau County Bar Association, Co-Chair Women in Law Committee
-2025 Established Blossom Girls’ and Womens’ s Education Fund at Temple Israel of Great Neck
_2017-present Trustee Great Neck Public Schools Board of Education, President 2019-2021
-2019-2022 President, Sepharadic Heritage Alliance, Inc.
-2017 Glass Leadership Institute Fellow Anti-Defamation League
_2014-2017 Trustee Solomon Schecter Schools. Long Island
RECOGNITIONS/AWARDS
2023 State of Israel Bonds Lion of Judah Award 2021 Outstanding Women in Law, Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law 2019 NYSSBA NYS School Board Association Board Excellence 2019 GAIA Woman’s Essence 2018 Hofstra University George M. Estabrook Distinguished Service Alumni
2018 Access to Justice Award
2015, 2010 Hadassah Woman of the Year 2014 Town of North Hempstead Women’s Roll of Honor
