Practice Areas & Industries: Roetzel & Andress, A Legal Professional Association

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Roetzel & Andress attorneys who practice in the area of School Law are able to offer the experience and insight to perform every legal service required by public school districts, private schools, and institutions of higher learning.

In addition to contributing their legal insight to a broad range of matters relating to School Law, several of our attorneys are current or former educators and one of our attorneys is a former superintendent of schools.

Services Available

• Arbitration proceedings
• Board policy development
• Bond law / public finance
• Charter school issues
• Civil service
• Collective bargaining and contract administration
• Competitive bidding
• Constitutional issues
• Construction
• Desegregation
• Discrimination
• EEOC complaints
• Employee evaluation
• Employee discipline
• Environmental issues
• Equal access
• Ethics
• Internet issues
• Intellectual property
• Labor & employment
• Labor & employment litigation
• Legal updates and seminars
• Levy proceedings
• Local government relations
• OCR complaints & representation
• Ohio School Facilities Commission issues
• Public finance
• Public records
• Real estate
• Special education issues and compliance with state and requirements
• Student affairs (discipline, expulsions, records, rights, privileges)
• Sunshine Law
• Tax levy law
• Workers' compensation

Representative Matters

• Performed real estate work for public school system which involved acquiring real estate for the School Construction Program, including the acquisition of an eight million dollar office facility being retrofitted as a transitional school facility to house students during construction at existing facilities
• Represented public school system in connection with real estate matters pertinent to the development of their new high school and athletic fields. Also provided routine real estate advising for this client
• Represented state university in its bargain price acquisition, all aspects of title and conveyancing, and subsequent sale and disposition of a 1,500 acre estate
• Advised public school districts in full range of legal matters including contract negotiation, charter school laws, public purchasing, competitive bidding, real property, Ohio School Facilities Commission matters, employee benefits, district purchasing, personnel, special education, EEO, civil rights, tuition and residency
• Represented a community seeking to transfer territory to a different school district