Carla C. Leone, Esq.

Carla C. Leone is an attorney who represents children with special needs in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts before the Bureau of Special Education Appeals division of the Department of Education. She is admitted to practice law in all state and federal courts in both Massachusetts and New York State. Carla is a 1985 cum laude graduate of New England School of Law, Boston. After graduating from law school, she joined the practice of Congdon, Flaherty, O'Callaghan, Reid, Donlon and Travis in Garden City, NY, where she concentrated in civil litigation and appellate practice. Her responsibilities included handling numerous personal injury and property damage cases, with an emphasis upon negligence, products liability, environmental law, labor law (construction accidents) and insurance coverage issues. Carla also headed the firm's Appeals Group for several years, monitoring the progress of all appeals, and at the same time, she handled over twenty-five appeals in State and Federal Courts in their entirety, from filing of Notice of Appeal through argument. Additionally, she undertook representation of a software company for a protracted battle over copyright issues related to proprietary software.