2025 School Law Conference

Date: Feb 5, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Location: Pines Manor, 2085 State Route 27, Edison

Member Price: $195.00

Non-Member Price: $244.00

Section Price: $183.00

Event Code: I144025

Areas of Law: School

Earn up to 6.2 credits, including 1.0 in Ethics and 1.2 in Diversity! (More Information)

Faculty

Keynote

Moderator

Staci J. Greenwald, Esq.
Sussan Greenwald & Wesler, Cranbury
David B. Rubin, Esq.
David B. Rubin, P.C., Metuchen

Presenters

Hon. Barry E. Moscowitz
Office of Adminstrative Law
Cherie L. Adams, Esq.
Adams Lattiboudere Croot & Herman, LLC, Iselin
Angela M. Gurrera, Esq.
Methfessel & Werbel PC, Edison
Sandra L. Jacques, Esq., LLM
Assistant Director of Legal Education
Foundation For Educational Administration, Monroe
Michael F. Kaelber, Esq.
Coordinator of Continuing Legal Education and Research
LEGAL ONE, Woodbridge
is an educational law consultant and the Coordinator for Online Course Development for LEGAL ONE NJPSA/FEA in Monroe Township, New Jersey. He retired as Director of the New Jersey School Board Association (NJSBA) Legal and Labor Relations Services Department in Trenton, New Jersey, in 2017. A member of the NJSBA staff since March 1988, he previously served as an associate with the Woodbridge, New Jersey, law firm of Hutt, Berkow and Jankowski, and was a mathematics teacher in the Woodbridge Township School District from 1973 through 1986.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey, Mr. Kaelber is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s School Law Committee and the New Jersey Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), which named him to its Hall of Fame in 2011. He has served as staff liaison to several New Jersey School Board Association committees, has co-authored numerous NJSBA publications and has lectured on school law issues to the NJSBA and other educational and legal organizations. He is also the recipient of the New Jersey Association of School Attorneys Distinguished Service Award.

Mr. Kaelber received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Lafayette College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.S. in Statistics from Rutgers University and his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law
Brenda C. Liss, Esq.
Newark Board of Education, Newark
Catherine M. Reisman, Esq.
Reisman Carolla Gran & Zuba LLP, Haddonfield
Christine Ann Soto, Esq.
General Counsel, Essex County College, Leonia
Sonja H. Trainor, Esq.
Executive Director, National School Attorneys Association, Washington
Kathryn A. Whalen, Esq.
Legal Counsel, Human Resources
New Jersey School Boards Association, Trenton
Jeffrey R. Youngman, Esq.
Feitlin Youngman Karas & Gerson, LLC, Glen Rock
Arsen S. Zartarian, Esq.
Cleary Giacobbe Alfieri Jacobs, LLC, Oakland

Presented in cooperation with the NJSBA School Law Special Committee

Hailed as the top school law conference in New Jersey for board, employee and parent/child attorneys

NJICLE is pleased to present the 22nd Annual School Law Conference. Whether you represent students, employees or school districts, this panel of highly respected authorities in school law will equip you with the tools to better represent your clients in situations that arise in the school law arena.

This comprehensive program features a case law and legislative update, including sessions on the following topics:

  • The Supreme Court’s impact on public schools
  • Ethical issues that school law practitioners should know
  • DEI issues under Title IX
  • Harassment
  • The School Ethics Act
  • The future of OAL special education due process hearings.

Program Preview

  • 9:00 | Welcome - Staci J. Greenwald, Esq. and David B. Rubin, Esq.

  • 9:05 | The USDOE Title IX Rule: Where Are We Now? - Brenda C. Liss, Esq.; Sandra L. Jacques, Esq., LLM and Christine Ann Soto, Esq.

  • 9:55 | New Jersey Case Law and Legislative Update - Cherie L. Adams, Esq.

  • 10:45 | Break

  • 11:00 | The U.S. Supreme Court Docket: Implications for K-12 Education - David B. Rubin, Esq. and Sonja Trainor, Esq.

  • 11:40 | Legal Ethics for School Law Practitioners - David B. Rubin, Esq.

  • 12:30 | Lunch Break

  • 1:30 | Harassment of Legally Protected Groups: Reconciling HIB, Title IX, Section 504, LAD and the First Amendment - Hon. Barry E. Moscowitz; Michael F. Kaelber, Esq. and Jeffrey R. Youngman, Esq.

  • 2:30 | Breakout Sessions

    • The School Ethics Act: Recent Developments - Kathryn Whalen, Esq. and Angela M. Gurrera, Esq.
    • The Future of OAL Special Education Due Process Hearings: Mandate vs. Math - Where are we nine months after the approval of the Settlement Agreement? - Catherine Merino Reisman, Esq. and Arsen Zartarian, Esq.
  • 3:45 | Adjourn

CLE Credits
NJ CLE:NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 6.2 hours of total CLE credit, including 1.0 in Ethics and 1.2 in Diversity (Full Credits Available: NJ Beginner Diversity : 1.2, NJ Ethics: 1.0, NJ General: 4.0, NY Diversity Non-Transitional: 1.0).
NY CLE (t&nt):NY Ethics Transitional: 1.0, NY Professional Practice Transitional: 4.0
PA CLE:PA Ethics Credit: 1.5, PA Substantive Credit: 3.0
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program.

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