Odediran Law Firm, PLLC

Focus and practice areas

Odediran Law Firm, PLLC handles education law and nothing else. The Austin firm represents students, parents, teachers and faculty across Texas. Its client groups are K-12 students, college and graduate students, students in medical and health profession programs, and Texas educators.

That single subject matter shapes everything on the firm's practice list. Education disputes run through school boards, campus conduct offices, hearing panels and state agencies. Each has its own procedure, its own deadlines and its own record.

The firm sorts its work into four client groups. In my opinion, that structure tells a reader more than a long service menu would, because the procedure a family faces depends almost entirely on which system they are in.

College and graduate students

For students at colleges and graduate programs, the firm handles academic integrity allegations, academic suspension and dismissal appeals, disciplinary hearings and appeals, disability accommodation, grade appeals and Title IX hearings.

Campus discipline runs on internal rules. A university conduct code sets the standard of proof, the timeline for a response and the grounds on which a decision can be appealed. Those grounds are usually narrow: new evidence, procedural error, or a sanction out of proportion to the finding.

Title IX matters follow a separate track under federal regulation. Institutions must give notice of the allegations, allow an advisor at the live hearing and produce a written determination. Much of the substantive work happens before that hearing, in the evidence review period when both parties see the investigator's file.

Medical and health profession students

The firm's medical education work covers progress and dismissal hearings, medical school suspension and dismissal appeals, clinical evaluation appeals and residency appeals.

These cases have a distinct shape. A promotions committee, not a court, usually makes the first decision, and it weighs clinical evaluations, remediation history and professionalism reports alongside exam scores. A dismissal at that stage can end a training path that took years and heavy debt to build, so the appeal record matters a great deal.

Residency appeals add a contract layer. A resident holds an employment agreement with the sponsoring institution and also sits inside an accredited training program, so a non-renewal can raise both grievance procedure and academic review questions at once.

K-12 and special education

The K-12 list is the longest on the site. It covers suspensions, DAEP placements and expulsions, bullying, Title IX accusations, student records, UIL appeals, IEP and ARD consultation, Section 504 plans, special education eligibility, due process and litigation, and Office for Civil Rights complaints.

Texas has its own vocabulary here. A DAEP placement sends a student to a disciplinary alternative education program, and the removal decision is made by campus administrators under Chapter 37 of the Education Code. Expulsion carries a formal hearing before the board or a designated hearing officer.

Special education runs on federal law with Texas procedure layered on top. The ARD committee (admission, review and dismissal) is the Texas name for the IEP team, and it decides eligibility, placement and services. When parents and the district disagree, the routes forward are mediation, a state complaint, or a due process hearing before a special education hearing officer.

Section 504 plans sit in a parallel system with a lower eligibility threshold and fewer procedural protections. Office for Civil Rights complaints go to the federal agency rather than the state, and they carry their own filing window.

Educators and administrators

For teachers, administrators and college faculty, the firm handles Texas educator certification defense, TEA and SBEC administrative hearings, contract non-renewal, employee grievances and tenure review.

Certification cases put an educator's licence at stake. The State Board for Educator Certification sets the standards, the Texas Education Agency investigates, and contested cases can go to an administrative hearing where the evidence is tested on the record. A sanction there follows an educator between districts and across state lines through reporting databases.

Contract disputes work differently again. A term contract non-renewal and a mid-year termination trigger different notice rights, and grievance policies set the number of levels a complaint climbs before it reaches the school board.

How the team is built

Goz Odediran founded the firm and is its founding attorney. She is licensed to practice law in New York and Texas.

Her background starts somewhere else. She began her legal career as an intellectual property attorney, and she holds a Master of Laws in International Business Economic Law, with an emphasis on the World Trade Organization, from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

The site refers to her team, though it names no other attorney. As a reviewer, I read the dual licensure as the most portable credential on the page: New York and Texas admission means she has met two separate bars and stays subject to both.

What the record shows

The firm's own pages carry the claim that its work is devoted entirely to education law. The practice list backs that up. Every item on it belongs to a school, a campus or a state education agency, and the four client groups map onto the four systems a Texas education dispute can start in.

Some detail is absent from the site. It gives no founding year, names no JD-granting school, and states the two licensure jurisdictions without the years of admission. Readers who want those points will need to ask.

What the site does state clearly is reach. The firm is based in Austin and represents clients throughout Texas, which matters in a state where school districts number in the thousands and the relevant hearing may sit hundreds of miles from the family's home.

Who this listing will suit

The clearest fit is a matter with a deadline attached to a school process. Discipline appeals, ARD disagreements, dismissal hearings and certification cases all run on windows measured in days, and missing one can close the route entirely.

Parents of students with disabilities have several parallel options in Texas: an ARD meeting, a Section 504 review, a state complaint, a due process hearing and an OCR filing. The firm lists all of these, so a first conversation can cover which route fits before anything is filed.

Medical students and residents form a narrow group, and the firm sets aside a separate practice heading for them. Anyone facing a promotions committee or a residency non-renewal will find that work named directly on the practice-areas page.

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