With over twenty years of experience in
school and public sector law, Laura Schulkind 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 board governance and the
Brown Act, student rights and discipline, certificated and classified
evaluation and discipline, employee leave rights and the interactive
process, contract grievance arbitration, 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, and designing lawful strategies to promote employment
diversity. She is currently on the Board of Governors Title 5 Task
Force, where she is assisting with revising the EEO and hiring
regulations for community colleges.
Prior to joining
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Laura was a partner at a Bay Area law firm
that specializes in education and employment law. While there, she
represented school districts and other public entities on a wide range
of school law and employment issues. Among other things, she 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 regularly conducts workshops for school districts,
community college districts and professional organizations across the
State in areas such as the Brown Act, conflicts of interest, harassment,
best practices in management, certificated evaluation and discipline,
school safety, employee leaves, student discipline, special education
and EEO hiring. 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 also
served as the legal member of the State Department of Education's hate
crime prevention training team.
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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