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The Intersection of School Law and Criminal Law
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Student discipline cases are on the rise and schools are increasingly gatekeepers for students being referred to law enforcement. Join a panel of education, school and criminal law attorneys, and a court judge providing an overview of student discipline and criminal matters involving students. This presentation will reveal the balancing act facing schools to protect student rights and maintain a safe learning environment, and when schools involve law enforcement.
Learn how discipline matters are handled in school versus students facing criminal charges for school-related incidents. Hear from the trenches how schools address these increasing challenges and discipline students, and how law enforcement and the courts handle students.
This CLE is for school/education attorneys, criminal defense practitioners, and judges on the Juvenile and Criminal court benches.
Chair
Hope N. Kirsch, Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC
Panel
Hon. Steve McCarthy, Maricopa County Superior Court
Lori Kirsch-Goodwin, Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC, Parent Attorney
Jessica S. Sanchez, Udall Shumway, PLC, School Attorney
Flynn Carey, Mitchell Stein Carey Chapman, PC, Criminal Defense Attorney
Hope N Kirsch, Attorney / Partner, Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC
Hope N. Kirsch is a founder and managing partner of the education law firm Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC (est. 2006) which serves students and their families throughout Arizona in disputes with schools. Hope is a licensed special education teacher and worked in the New York City public schools for 18 years as a special education teacher and school administrator. She assists and represents clients with IEPs, 504s, discipline (suspensions, expulsions, MDRs), mediation, OCR Complaints, Due Process Complaints, mediation, and appeals. Hope earned a B.S., cum laude, in Special Education from Boston University (1975), an M.A.(Ed.) in Special Education from New York University (1977), and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School (1991). She is admitted in the state and federal courts of Arizona, New York and New Jersey, and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Lori B Kirsch-Goodwin, Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch PLLC
Lori Kirsch-Goodwin is a partner in the education law firm of Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC, in Scottsdale, Arizona, founded in 2006. She is a 38 year litigation attorney whose practice is devoted to education and special education matters on behalf of students and their families throughout Arizona. Lori has a Bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and her law degree from Bridgeport (now Quinnipiac) University. Lori began advocating for students with disabilities when one of her twin sons, now 29 years old, was found in need of special education back in Kindergarten. Lori is regularly involved in eligibility/MET and IEP meetings, MDRs, disciplinary due process hearings, OCR, IDEA Due Process, and DDD appeals. She is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts in New York, New Jersey, Arizona and the 9th Circuit, and is AV-rated. Lori prevailed in a case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that involved appropriateness of a school’s selection of location of a school for a student on the spectrum. She is an AV® Preeminent rated attorney and is appointed to serve as Judge Pro Tem for the Superior Court of Arizona.
Jessica Sanchez, Partner, Udall Shumway PLC
Jessica Sanchez is a partner with the firm Udall Shumway PLC in Mesa, Arizona. She focuses her practice primarily in the area of education law, representing school districts and charter schools throughout the State. In addition to her time at Udall Shumway PLC, Ms. Sanchez has also served as in-house legal counsel for the Scottsdale Unified School District and the General Counsel for the three Tempe School Districts (Tempe Union High School District, Tempe Elementary School District and Kyrene Elementary School District). Ms. Sanchez has experience providing legal advice and representation on a broad range of matters including, but not limited to, special education, student discipline, employment matters, Open Meeting Law, public records, policy review, and governing board liability issues. Ms. Sanchez has conducted many in-service training programs and has presented a variety of seminars for the National Business Institute, MEDS-PDN, and the Arizona School Boards Association. Ms. Sanchez recently served as President of the Arizona State Bar Board of Governors.
Flynn P Carey, Attorney, Mitchell Stein Carey Chapman PC
Flynn Carey is a founder and member of Mitchell Stein Carey Chapman in Phoenix. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (cum laude) where he was on Law Review, the recipient of the Honorable Rufus C. Coulter Scholarship and President of the Criminal Law Society. Flynn’s practice focuses on the defense of licensed professionals, criminal defense, school discipline, and Title IX litigation. He is one of only two attorneys recognized by the State Bar of Arizona as a Certified Specialist in Administrative Law. Flynn frequently represents and defends students in criminal matters.
Steve W McCarthy, Maricopa County Superior Court
Honorable Steven W. McCarthy was appointed by Governor Hobbs as a Judge to the Maricopa County Superior Court in April 2023, assigned to Family Court. This appointment followed four years on the bench as a Commissioner during which time he held an assignment in the criminal department. Prior to joining the bench, Judge McCarthy was a capital defense attorney with the Maricopa County Public Defender’s office from 2014 to 2019 which he first joined in 2009 as a trial attorney. He also sat as a member of the State Bar of Arizona’s Criminal Jury Instructions. Judge McCarthy received a B.A. from Santa Clara University in 2023, his J.D. from Phoenix Law School in 2009 and an LL.M. from Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College in 2019.
