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Practices

The firm’s Education Law group has many years of experience in representing public and private educational institutions at all levels on complex matters of federal and state law and in litigating major Education Law cases. This broad experience enables us to provide our education clients with a full range of advice, services and aggressive representation.

Overview

We represent our public and private school education clients on a broad array of Education Law issues, including the Louisiana Charter School Demonstrations Act, negotiation of charter school operating agreements, special education issues, federal and state constitutional issues, funding disputes, employment law, ERISA and employee benefits, Title IX, First Amendment and other education speech issues, internal investigations, and other complex matters. We have litigated and tried high stakes education cases on behalf of our educational clients in federal and state courts.

Team Includes

Liskow’s team includes a highly experienced Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers who was instrumental in the charter school movement in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; nationally recognized employment and employee benefits attorneys; a Title IX trained litigator; and a former member of the Board of a charter school network. Our team members are nationally ranked in Chambers & Partners, Best Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, and other national listings.

Notable Experience

  • We represented Louisiana’s largest charter school along with another school in a funding dispute with the local school board and state Education Board, which was resolved following a federal trial that has shaped how public charter schools are funded in New Orleans.

Our Education Law cases have set national precedents. In one such case, we secured a federal court judgment recognizing the non-governmental status of a Louisiana charter school operator and its right to redress under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 for deprivation of its vested contractual funding rights in violation of Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution. The judgment was the first of its kind and has landmark significance to the charter school movement sweeping the nation.

Other experience:

  • Handled internal investigations for our clients
  • Guided our clients through every step of the title ix investigation process and successfully resolved complaints
  • Interacted with public media as needed to communicate our clients’ positions
  • Resolved numerous disputes with local school boards, the state board of education, and other regulatory bodies
  • Handled and resolved numerous personnel and discipline issues
  • Handled and resolved disputes with contractors and related construction project issues
  • Negotiated contracts in all areas of our education clients’ needs

We are known for these strengths

  • Knowledge of and experience with federal and state laws and regulations governing education
  • Effective advice to and consultation with our education clients in areas of prevention and exposure assessment
  • Close collaboration with other stakeholders in the education arena in order to coordinate common strategies and eliminate duplication and waste of resources
  • Effective interaction with our clients’ governing boards
  • Negotiation of contracts with funding sources
  • Reorganization of 501(c)(3) supporting organizations
  • Aggressive representation in pretrial proceedings and, when necessary, at trial
  • Sensitivity to client needs and concerns
Our team members are: “excellent trial lawyers,” who are “smart,” “well prepared,” and “very knowledgeable, prompt, fast and responsive to clients and the courts.
Chambers and Partners
2022

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