Mickes Goldman O’Toole education law attorneys shared expertise on a variety of schools law matters at the 2010 Missouri Association of School Business Officials (MOASBO) Annual Conference in April. Included were the following presentations: Dealing With Teachers and...
Published by MARE, April 2010 Proactive Measures Your District Can Take Now On February 1, 2010, Mickes Goldman O’Toole celebrated its two year anniversary. And in the past two years alone, the firm’s special education department has handled approximately sixty OCR...
Ernest Trakas, a Mickes Goldman O’Toole special education attorney, is among attorneys providing insight on how school districts school address and prevent disability harassment situations in a recent issue of the national publication Special Education Connection. ...
Published by MOASBO, March/April 2010 On February 1, 2010, Mickes Goldman O’Toole celebrated its two year anniversary. And in the past two years alone, our special education department has handled approximately sixty OCR complaints against districts across the state...
Published by MOASBO, March/April 2010 Introduction As Missouri public school districts are all too painfully aware, districts state-wide are facing budgetary problems, the likes of which have not been seen in some time. Districts are left with the...
Tom Mickes, managing and founding member of Mickes Goldman O’Toole, LLC has been selected to the Best Lawyers in America list for 2010 by vote of peers in the legal community. Mickes is cited for his work in the general education field in which he has practiced as an...
Teri Goldman, special education attorney and founding partner of Mickes Goldman O’Toole, LLC, provided expertise on the use of service animals in the recent edition of Special Education Connection, a national medium serving special education teachers, school...
Published by MARE, January 2010 Consider this: a high school principal suspends a disabled student on September 8 for fighting and bringing a pocket knife to school. He tells the student and his parent that the suspension is “until a hearing before the school board...
Published by MOASBO, January/February 2010 On June 22, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court held that under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, parents may seek private school tuition reimbursement, even if their child has never before received special education...
Thomas Mickes and Natalie Hoernschemeyer obtained a victory from the Missouri Supreme Court this term in one of the few school cases that came before the high court. Tom and Natalie successfully represented Central R-3 School District regarding a legal dispute over...
