Avoiding the Top 10 Legal Mistakes
After more than three decades of providing comprehensive legal representation to the vast majority of California charter schools, attorneys at Young, Minney & Corr, LLP have observed the most common and detrimental legal mistakes made by charter schools.
This session will explore personnel, governance, and corporate structures, facilities, audit issues, and student services, including special education. Join to learn how to avoid he mistakes most often made by charter schools.
Presented by
James Young
Partner/Founder
Young, Minney & Corr, LLP
Founding Principal Jim Young began his career in education as a high school teacher in 1986, and since becoming an attorney in 1992, he has worked exclusively representing public schools. Jim continues to work at the forefront of important issues for charter schools in California addressing employment law, labor relations, board governance and student discipline since the early years of the Charter Schools Act. Jim’s extensive work as general counsel to school districts throughout the 1990s has proven a unique and invaluable resource in effectively representing charter schools in most legal concerns.
Lisa Corr
Partner
Young, Minney & Corr, LLP
Lisa Corr has been a zealous representative of school choice for over twenty-seven years in a wide array of crucial areas. After decades of development work advocating for creating public-school choices throughout California, Lisa's current primary focus has been on special education, including the careful prevention and active defense of due process and the Office for Civil Rights and California Department of Education complaints. Lisa also regularly advises educational support organizations. Lisa also provides critical representation in day-to-day general student service areas, including student policy development and implementation, student discipline, UCP and Title IX complaints, student and parent rights, interpretation of child custody agreements, and control of disruptive visitors on campus. Lisa also assists nonprofit boards in developing effective and efficient governance practices, including assistance with strategic planning, legal compliance, and policy development.
Paul Minney
Founder/Partner
Young, Minney & Corr, LLP
For more than thirty years, Paul Minney has represented schools in state and federal courts in a multitude of critical areas. After drafting the fifth charter in the state, Paul has assisted over 500 charter schools in developing charter petitions, MOUs, facility use agreements, corporate papers, and many other vital charter school documents. While his primary area of focus is litigation, he also assists clients in policy development, business transactions, governance, facilities, revocation defense, audit defense, dispute resolution, and administrative law. Paul is a frequent speaker at school membership-sponsored events throughout California and a contributing author to the National Charter School Law Deskbook, published by Lexis Nexis in association with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
