Interested in School Law?

Take a look at this e-mail we received:

In 2006, the National School Boards Association’s Council of School Attorneys launched an effort to increase the number of new lawyers choosing to become school attorneys who represent k-12 public school districts. The Council is a membership group of over 3,000 attorneys nationwide who have public school districts as their clients. http://www.nsba.org/cosa.

On Nov. 1-3, 2007, the Council will hold its fall School Law Practice Seminar at the Austin Hilton Downtown, and we would like to invite law students from the Baylor School of Law to attend at a greatly discounted rate of $50. Non-member registration for this two and one half day event is $650. About 150 school lawyers from around the country will attend, and we thought this might be an ideal opportunity for law students to see constitutional law and other law at work in k-12 public school districts.

Members of our law school committee would be pleased to host law students for the seminar. We request that you make this offer available to your students. Our law school committee chair, Allison Brown Schafer, is general counsel for the North Carolina School Boards Association. We also have three Council board members in Texas: Shellie Hoffman Crow, at the Walsh Anderson firm in Austin; the seminar chair, M. Kaye DeWalt of the Adams & Reese firm in Houston; and Jeff Horner, of the Bracewell & Giuliani firm also in Houston.

The online brochure is available at http://www.nsba.org/cosa2/practice/index.htm Students must register by fax or mail to receive the discounted rate. Advance registration is required. Students should send registrations with a check or credit card payment to: Lyndsay Andrews, NSBA, 1680 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314, or fax to 703-548-5613. Students will be asked to verify their student status. For additional information about this special registration offer, contact Lyndsay Andrews, Council membership manager, at landrews@nsba.org (703) 838-6738 or Laura Baird, Legal Services Assistant, at lbaird@nsba.org.

If students from your law school are unable to attend, we encourage students to subscribe to our free weekly online news service, Legal Clips. An online registration form is available at http://www.nsba.org/site/page.asp?TRACKID=&CID=373&DID=8614 Our Legal Clips editor, Tom Hutton thutton@nsba.org, would be happy to welcome students from your school by name in a weekly issue of Legal Clips. Just contact Tom, NSBA Senior Staff Attorney, and give him the information about classes that are subscribing. You can unsubscribe at any time.