A pair of Susman Godfrey attorneys are teaming up with a Richmond, Virginia, firm and the Civil Rights Clinic of Georgetown Law School in a federal class action lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Education for allegedly violating disabled student’s rights over the past two decades.

William Merrill, a partner at Susman Godfey’s Houston office, and Michael Adamson, an associate in Los Angeles, are joining Aderson Francois, director of the civil rights clinic, and local lawyers, Braxton Hill and Craig Merritt of Merritt Law, in the case that alleges a history of biased rulings against families with disabled children.