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Liebert Cassidy
Whitmore Names New Partner!
 Laura
Schulkind, Partner
Laura has developed an extensive background in the successful
resolution of many employment and education-related issues and is
experienced in all phases of school and employment law. Her areas
of expertise include student rights and discipline, certificated
and classified evaluation and discipline, harassment, employee
investigations, education services for non-English speakers,
employment and educational testing and accountability, school
safety planning and hate crime prevention, OCR investigations,
special education, desegregation, affirmative action, and complex
litigation.
Prior to joining Liebert Cassidy Whitmore’s San Francisco office,
Laura was a partner at a Bay Area law firm that specializes in
education and employment law. While there, she represented school
districts, community college districts, and other public entities
on a wide range of school law and employment issues. Among other
things, she has twice represented coalitions of school districts
challenging aspects of the STAR testing program and has a
particular interest in psychometrics and legal issues relating to
testing.
A
sought after presenter, Laura has conducted workshops for school
districts, community college districts, cities and counties, and
professional organizations across the State in areas such as
student discipline, special education, certificated evaluation
and discipline, sexual harassment, and school safety . She is an
Instructor at the University of California at Berkeley, School of
Education, where she teaches education law in the Principal
Leadership Institute and School Psychology Program. She has also
served as the legal member of the State Department of Education's
hate crimes training team. Laura is also an active trainer for
many city and county consortia on a wide range of topics including
investigations, best practices management and absenteeism.
Laura's legal experience includes a variety of complex litigation
matters involving Titles VI and VII and the enforcement of consent
decrees. Her work has covered a wide array of civil rights issues
and affirmative action hiring strategies.
Laura graduated from Wesleyan University with high honors and is a
member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Juris Doctorate from
The New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden
Scholar and received numerous academic awards. Laura also served
as book review editor of the New York University Law Review and
was elected to Order of the Coif.
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2005 December Client Update, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore.
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