Hope N Kirsch

Attorney / Partner

Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC

Hope N. Kirsch is a founder and managing partner of the education law firm Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC (est. 2006) which serves students and their families throughout Arizona in disputes with schools. Hope is a licensed special education teacher and worked in the New York City public schools for 18 years as a special education teacher and school administrator. She assists and represents clients with IEPs, 504s, discipline (suspensions, expulsions, MDRs), mediation, OCR Complaints, Due Process Complaints, mediation, and appeals. Hope earned a B.S., cum laude, in Special Education from Boston University (1975), an M.A.(Ed.) in Special Education from New York University (1977), and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School (1991). She is admitted in the state and federal courts of Arizona, New York and New Jersey, and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.