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Events
7th ANNUAL SCHOOL ATTORNEY LAW CONFERENCE
Summer School
June 1-3, 2007
The Sagamore, Bolton Landing, New York
AGENDA
| Friday, June 1, 2007 |
| 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. |
Registration |
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| 6:00– 6:15 p.m. |
Introduction and Welcome
Richard K. Zuckerman, President
New York State Association of School Attorneys |
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| 6:15 – 7:30 p.m. |
Advanced Studies: NYS Education Department
Go beyond the Commissioner’s Decisions and SED
memos, and earn “extra credit” by joining your
colleagues for an informal discussion with counsel
at SED about hot topics of current interest to
attorneys that represent school districts.
Presenter: Kathy A. Ahearn, Counsel
and Deputy Commissioner of Education for Legal
Affairs |
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| 7:30 p.m. |
Dinner on Your Own |
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Saturday, June 2, 2007 |
| 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. |
Registration |
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| 7:00 – 8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast (included with registration) |
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| 8:30 – 8:40 a.m. |
Introduction and Welcome
Richard K. Zuckerman, President
New York State Association of School Attorneys |
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8:40 – 9:30 a.m. |
Senior
Seminar: Special Education Obligations to Private
School Students
Learn to navigate the twists and turns of the
IDEA 2004 and Federal and State laws and regulations
as they relate to school district responsibilities
to students with disabilities who attend private
schools.
Presenter: Rebecca H. Cort, Ed.D.,
Deputy Commissioner of VESID |
| 9:30 – 9:40 a.m. |
Break |
9:40 – 10:50 p.m. |
The
Associate 101
Don’t miss Season 6.5 of this series, as a famous
real estate magnate-turned attorney opens the
biggest and greatest law firm in America and looks
for fresh blood to staff it. Candidates vying
for a position with the new firm discuss how they’ve
dealt with challenging legal issues such as student
discipline, residency/homelessness, disclosure
of sensitive or confidential student information
and records, scope of mandatory reporting of child
abuse, and more. Find out who will be picked as
the firm’s next Associate, and who will hear those
dreaded words, “You’re fired!”
Appearing: Ronald J. Frump
and his trusted advisors played by: Douglas
E. Libby, Sewanhaka Central High School
District
Robert H. Cohen, Lamb and Barnosky,
LLP
John P. Sheahan, Guercio and
Guercio
Also appearing: Ryan L. Everhart,
Hodgson Russ, LLP
Susan E. Fine, Ingerman Smith,
LLP
Ariana A. Gambella, Guercio and
Guercio
Norman H. Gross, Ferrara, Fiorenza,
Larrison, Barrett and Reitz, PC
Mara N. Harvey, Lamb and Barnosky,
LLP
Tracie L. Lopardi, Harris Beach,
PLLC
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| 10:50 – 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
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| 11:00 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. |
The Associate 101 (continued) |
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| 12:10 p.m. |
NYSASA Annaul Meeting for Members
(with elections of directors and officers) |
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| 12:20 – 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. |
Golf Tournament – Tee Time
All skill levels welcomed – great networking opportunity!
(optional; requires a separate fee)
Tennis
All skill levels welcomed – great networking opportunity! |
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| 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. |
Reception & Barbeque (included
with registration) |
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Sunday, June 3, 2007 |
| 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. |
NYSASA Board of Directors Meeting |
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| 9:00 – 9:10 a.m. |
Introduction
Wayne A. Vander Byl, President
New York State Association of School Attorneys |
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9:10 – 10:00 a.m.
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The
Business of BOCES
A board of cooperative educational services is a
“different animal.” Whether you directly represent
a BOCES, or one or more of a BOCES’ component school
districts, learn about the special rules that apply
to a BOCES. Explore the legal relationship between
a school district and a BOCES, and find out how
others have dealt with unique issues such as: which
entity has responsibility for student discipline,
alternative instruction during a suspension, decisions
whether to admit non-immunized students, ensuring
mandated reports get made? What factors should be
considered in connection with contracting? What
happens when a district “takes back” a BOCES program
(and vice-versa)? Learn all this and more!
Presenter: Susan DiDonato, Questar
III (Board of Cooperative Educational Services for
Rensselaer-Columbia-Greene Counties)
David
A. Farmelo, Hodgson Russ, LLP
Marc
H. Reitz, Ferrara, Fiorenza, Larrison,
Barrett and Reitz, PC
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| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
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10:15 – 11:30 a.m. |
Don’t
Be an Ethics Drop-Out
Be guided through hypotheticals that address the
thorny issues all practitioners who represent
public schools must face, such as: to what extent
can public officials accept gifts and to what
degree can law firms or other firms give them;
what ethical considerations arise from acceptance
of donations to student scholarship funds and
educational foundations; who is “the client” when
representing a municipal entity; when is a firm
conflicted out of representation?
Presenter: Carol A. Melnick,
Jaspan Schlesinger Hoffman, LLP
Lawrence W. Reich, Ingerman Smith,
LLP
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| 11:30 a.m. |
Adjourn |
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