At Mickes O’Toole, we recognize the importance of education to our community and society as a whole. We are proud of the role our attorneys play in assisting our almost 250 Missouri and Illinois educational clients in providing a quality education to their students...
Mickes O'Toole attorneys Natalie Hoernschemeyer and Betsey Helfrich secured a dismissal of the Crocker R-II School District Due Process/IDEA Complaint in the Western District of Missouri.
We are proud to announce six Mickes O'Toole attorneys have been chosen as Super Lawyers or Rising Stars by Super Lawyers Magazine for Missouri and Kansas for 2018 Super Lawyers Natalie Hoernschemeyer Schools & Education, Employment Litigation Thomas Mickes Schools...
Published by MARE, June 2016 On June 3, 2016, Governor Nixon signed into law HB 1583. This new law is Missouri Legislature’s sweeping response to combat bullying in local schools. HB 1583 dramatically alters Missouri school districts’ obligations regarding the...
Natalie Hoernschemeyer of the firm’s education department successfully represented Poplar Bluff R-I School District before the Missouri Court of Appeals. After a hearing before the District’s Board of Education, the Board terminated a tenured teacher for incompetency...
Published by MARE, May 2013 A high school student filed suit claiming that his property was subjected to an illegal and unconstitutional seizure when he was briefly separated from his backpack and books during a random search of his science classroom by the local...
Published by MoASBO, July 2012 I. Introduction Regardless of the size, construction and maintenance projects can cause tremendous headaches for school administrators. In addition to making aesthetic and financially conscientious decisions, administrators...
Natalie Hoernschemeyer and Wendy Boggiano successfully represented a Missouri school district against a lawsuit requesting a temporary restraining order and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief preventing the school district from declaring two students to be...
Published by MoASBO, March 2012 Congress, as part of the No Child Left Behind Act, enacted the Paul D. Coverdell Teacher Protection Act of 2001 (“the Act”). Specifically, the Act’s purpose is to “provide teachers, principals and other school professionals the tools...
Natalie Hoernschemeyer and Christi Flaherty recently defeated a class action lawsuit against Moberly Area Community College. The College was among several Missouri colleges sued by their students, inter alia, the Missouri Returning Heroes Act (a statute that caps the...
