LYNNE P. SHERRY, ESQUIRE
Partner
Weiss Burkardt Kramer LLC
445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Suite 503
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
412.391.9890 Phone
412.391.9685 Fax
lsherry@wbklegal.com

Lynne P. Sherry is a Partner at Weiss Burkardt Kramer LLC, having joined the firm in August 2018. She is also the Chair of the firm’s Special Education Department. Her practice focuses on education law with a concentration in special education law and legal issues impacting students. She represents school districts in all stages of special education and school discipline disputes, with a focus on collaboration and creative problem solving. Lynne provides extensive Professional Development, legal training, and consultation to districts on a range of legal topics. She is a frequent presenter for the University of Pittsburgh’s Tri-State Area School Study Council. Lynne also serves as an Assistant Solicitor to the School District of Pittsburgh.

Prior to joining WBK, Lynne was the Supervising Attorney for the Dependency Division of the Allegheny County Office of Conflict Counsel, where she represented hundreds of abused and neglected children. In that role, she was also appointed as Educational Decision Maker for many of her clients, responsible for making all educational decisions, including special education and early intervention. Lynne also represented students in school discipline and school transfer matters, truancy proceedings, and at IEP meetings. She was a stakeholder of the Children’s Roundtable, a statewide program launched by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court with a goal of ensuring that all children achieve timely permanency. Lynne was a member of the Allegheny County Roundtable’s Educational Success and Truancy Prevention (ESTP) Committee, focused on improving educational stability and success for court-involved youth. 

Lynne received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work with a minor in Spanish from Providence College in 2005, where she graduated summa cum laude. In 2010, she was the first student to graduate from the University of Pittsburgh’s dual degree program in Law and Social Work, where she was Order of the Coif and Articles Editor for the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. Lynne was the recipient of the Law School’s Community Service Award as well as CALI Excellence for the Future awards in Legal Research & Writing; Ethics of Lawyering; Race, Religion & Law; and, Human Behavior & Law. 

Lynne is admitted to practice in the Courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Allegheny County Bar Association, where she is a member of the School and Municipal Law Section. She resides in Aspinwall with her husband and their three children.