Attorney Profiles

Mark Woodsmall, Esq

Mark Woodsmall is the founder of Woodsmall Law Group, PC a law firm based in the San Gabriel

Valley area. The firm practices exclusively in the areas of Special Education and representation before the Regional Center.

In 2006 Mr. Woodsmall joined the faculty of the USC Gould School of Law as a Professor Adjunct, teaching in the area of special education law. He also serves as the teaching attorney in the Special Education Advocacy Training Project - Los Angeles. The SEAT Project, an innovative nationwide advocacy training project, is funded under grant from the US Department of Education and administered through COPAA, The Council of Parent Attorneys & Advocates and the USC Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (Children's Hospital Los Angeles).

Mr. Woodsmall sits on the UCLA Center for Autism Research & Treatment (CART) Community Advisory Committee. He has been an active volunteer with Cure Autism Now/Autism Speaks, serving on the National and Los Angeles Walk Planning Committees and Government Relations Committee. In 2008 he was named to the Board of Autism Speaks - Los Angeles. He currently serves as its Chair.

Mr. Woodsmall is a frequent lecturer on parent's rights under the IDEA, Section 504 and the Lanterman Act. He was a guest speaker at the 2005 National Down Syndrome Congress, 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 Autism / Aspergers - Back to School Conference, 2006 PVLDA - ADHD Autism Connection Conference.

Mark & Eva Woodsmall are parents of a child with autism.

"If I only had the courage, the patience, the strength he does, I would be a remarkable person. Each and everyday he works harder than any of us to speak, to share his hopes and dreams, to prove to others that his intelligence is not defined by the words he has but by the words he holds within, and to change the world for the better. - Eva Woodsmall, 2009"