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 | |
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 |
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7:30 p.m. | Dinner on Your Own | |
Saturday, June 2, 2007 | ||
7:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Registration | |
7:00 – 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast (included with registration) | |
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 |
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9:30 – 9:40 a.m. | Break | |
9:40 – 10:50 p.m. |
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 |
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10:50 – 11:00 a.m. | Break | |
11:00 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. | The Associate 101 (continued) | |
12:10 p.m. | NYSASA Annaul Meeting for Members (with elections of directors and officers) | |
12:20 – 1:00 p.m.
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. |
Lunch Golf Tournament – Tee Time |
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6:30 – 9:00 p.m. | Reception & Barbeque (included with registration) | |
Sunday, June 3, 2007 |
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7:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast | |
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. | NYSASA Board of Directors Meeting | |
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. |
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 | |
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 |
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11:30 a.m. | Adjourn |