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Practice/Industry Groups:
Education
Sue Yount is a partner in
the education group of Bricker & Eckler. Her practice involves education law, emphasizing areas of law affecting public school boards of education including employment, federal and state employment discrimination, labor relations, collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, unfair labor practice charges, school finance, special education, student discipline, private school matters and school-age day-care matters.
Representative Experience
Representation of school districts throughout the State of Ohio since 1986 in nearly all areas of education law
Served as counsel in several precedent-setting cases involving education law including the constitutionality of Ohio's school funding laws; serves as counsel in numerous administrative hearings
Negotiator of public school district collective bargaining agreements for both teaching and non-teaching units
Presenter at various education law seminars, including OSBA, BASA, OALSS, and state support team programs, day care provider workshops, and school in-service programs
Community and Professional Activities
Member, Ohio State Bar Association and Columbus Bar Association
Member, Ohio Council of School Board Attorneys
Member, National School Boards Association Council of School Attorneys
Member, Education Law Association
Awards and Recognitions
Columbus Bar Association's Community Service Award for attorneys under age 36, 1990
Ohio Association of Local School Superintendents' Friends of Education Award, 1997
Business First, 40 Under 40 Award, 1999
Buckeye Association of School Administrators, President's Award, 2001
Publications
"The Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Legal Obligation of Parents to Support Children," 47 Ohio State Law Journal 753 (1986)
"Court Reinforces Back Wages for Tutors," Ohio School Boards Association Journal, Feb. 1992
Employment Contracts Reference Manual, a publication for school administrators, ©1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005
Education
Ohio University (B.B.A., summa cum laude, top business graduate, 1983)
The Ohio State University College of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 1986); Member, Order of the Coif; Member, Ohio State Law Journal
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