Our firm’s attorneys have decades of experience serving Wisconsin’s educational institutions and we’ve designed our firm’s practice for the clients we serve.
School districts and institutions of higher learning need lawyers that understand who they really are. Their counsel must appreciate educational institutions’ role in our law, public policy, and culture. Educational institutions are multifaceted and complex; they provide students an outstanding education, but they are also important employers, governmental bodies, childcare centers, health care managers, food distribution centers, and mass transit companies, to name only a few. It is only in this context that schools’ importance to our children and our communities can be fully understood.
Our clients need lawyers dedicated to scholarship, especially when negotiating administrator contracts. Countless areas of law have developed unique principles and standards for cases related to public education. Constitutional law, contract law, and laws concerning employee discipline and discharge, for example, are often reshaped or refined—sometimes modestly, but sometimes more seriously—by statutes, rules, and legal principles that are uniquely related to school districts. For us, learning and understanding this body of law that we call “school law” is a lifelong pursuit.
Education institutions need lawyers with meaningful experience. Attorneys Kirk Strang and Erin Kastberg have 50 years of collective experience in school law. We have the wisdom and judgment—that ability to see over the horizon for our clients—that only a lifetime commitment to this field can bring.
This is where we work. The law of public education is our foundation. Mastering its application to our schools’ challenges—large or small—is our practice. Our experience is our distinction.