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Education Law

Steptoe & Johnson's Education Law Team is experienced in working with public and private educators to help them find effective solutions to legal challenges that they face every day. Team members are familiar with educators' needs as well as the legal climate in which they must operate and provide counsel that is proactive as well as cost-effective.

Representative Experience

  • Defended a major new source review permit issued to a public university against a citizen suit challenge that Ohio EPA did not properly establish Best Available Control Technology (BACT). Had the citizens group been successful, the university would have potentially had to install additional pollution controls, costing millions of dollars
  • Jury trial on behalf of board of education where severely-injured student sought damages for injuries sustained while skipping class
  • Defended board of education at jury trial for failing to address complaints of student-on-student harassment.
  • Jury trial for local board of education against claims of mistreatment of special needs student.
  • Federal jury trial for school board in high profile litigation alleging sexual discrimination by high school teacher against student.
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Team members possess a broad variety of specialized legal knowledge, and regularly partner with other Steptoe & Johnson attorneys to assist clients with specialized matters important to educational entities such as real estate transactions, bond issues, tax and compliance issues, and employee benefits and compensation.
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