Expert Guidance for Schools, Employees, and Families
Our services
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Special Education and Student Law
Student discipline
Student conduct and behavioral issues
Temporary Restraining Orders and emergency behavioral interventions
Inter and intra district transfers
Pupil records/FERPA
Uniform Complaint Procedures
CDE compliance complaints
OCR complaints
Title IX complaints (including investigations, decision-making, and appeals)
Disability accommodations
IDEA and Section 504 compliance
Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Due process hearings
Federal and state court litigation
Writ petitions
Interagency obligations, complaint handling and coordination
Constitutional rights and responsibilities (such as, students’ free speech rights, religion in the schools, and school searches)
Foster and homeless youth rights
SELPA guidance
Discrimination, bullying and harassment
Student civil rights and equity issues
Discrimination, bullying and harassment
Student injuries and other incidents
Independent impartial investigations
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Class Action Wage and Employment Law
Labor Law
Developing employer-employee relations strategies that serve the best interests of students
Pioneering new and better approaches to negotiations with employee groups
Negotiating collective bargaining agreements, MOUs and side letters
Crafting proposals and drafting final agreement language
Advising on contract administration, grievance processing and representation before mediators and arbitrators
Defending against unfair labor practice charges filed with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)
Representing employers in unit modification and decertification proceedings
Representing employers during impasse mediation and at fact finding hearings
Counseling employers on lawful responses to picketing, strikes, and other forms of concerted activity
Training
Employment Law
Identifying best practices for hiring and classification
Drafting employee, administrator and cabinet contracts
Developing strategies to sustain and improve employee performance and professional development
Assisting with investigations, UCP and other complaint procedures
Assisting supervisors with employee remediation efforts and due process requirements
Preparing progressive discipline documentation, including conference summaries, warning letters, suspension notices and dismissal charges
Representing management in classified and certificated disciplinary proceedings (demotion, suspension and termination)
Assisting with certificated and classified layoff processes and hearings
Responding to discrimination claims (EEOC, DFEH, OCR, CDE).
Counseling clients about interactive process and reasonable accommodations requirement
Complying with leave of absence legal requirements
Counseling on the unique requirements applicable to merit districts
Training
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Family Law
Dissolution of marriage (divorce)
Premarital, marital, pre-divorce, divorce, post-divorce, & non-marital relationship consulting
Property division
Spousal and child support
Custody and visitation
Paternity
Pre & post nuptial agreements
Domestic partnerships
Post-divorce support and custody modifications
Family law mediation
Past and Present Clients