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CHARLES W. HERF is a partner in the national firm of Quarles & Brady LLP. His primary areas of practice include labor and employment, securities, education law, commercial litigation, and alternate dispute resolution. Mr. Herf has experience in all aspects of dispute resolution as advocate and neutral. He specializes in employment disputes, including wrongful discharge, discrimination, defamation, civil rights and executive compensation issues. Mr. Herf's litigation includes employment, securities, commercial, federal and state courts, and various administrative agencies. He has experience in jury and bench trials, appellate, arbitration, and mediation. Mr. Herf is a member of the American Bar Association (Labor Relations and Litigation sections), State Bar of Arizona, Maricopa County Bar Association, State Bar of California (Labor & Employment Section), State Bar of Wisconsin and Illinois State Bar Association. He earned his B.S. degree and J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Herf has been named in The Best Lawyers in America - Labor and Employment, Commercial Litigation and Education Law; Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers, Southwest Super Lawyers; and also is Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Judicial Circuit. PATRICE M. HORSTMAN is a director and founding member of the law firm of Hufford, Horstman, Mongini, Parnell & Tucker, P.C. in Flagstaff. Ms. Horstman's areas of special concentration have been in education law, employment law, American Indian law, constitutional law and municipal law. She and the firm represent over 40 public school districts, and grant and contract schools throughout Arizona. Ms. Horstman also has extensive background in legislative law, serving as a legislative aide in a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., and serving as a legislative aide to the Arizona State Education Committee in Phoenix. She earned her B.S. degree from Northern Arizona University and her J.D. degree from the University of Arizona. Ms. Horstman is a member of the State Bar of Arizona, and the Navajo and Hopi Bar Associations. She is licensed to practice in the State of Arizona, the Federal District Court of Arizona, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Navajo Tribal Court and the Hopi Tribal Court. ALAN K. HYDE is a partner with the law firm of Holm Wright Hyde & Hayes, PLC. He practices in the areas of commercial and civil litigation, with an emphasis on landlord-tenant, insurance, construction, school, employment, real property and business law. Mr. Hyde has defended several Arizona schools and school districts, as well as litigants on behalf of insurers in a wide spectrum of litigation and coverage matters. Insurance related representations have included coverage opinions, personal injury, insurance bad faith, legal malpractice, medical malpractice, products liability, wrongful death, age and sex discrimination in employment, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Civil Rights Act claims. Mr. Hyde has represented several large regional and national clients in construction and lending disputes. His clients have included municipalities, contractors, banks, subcontractors, suppliers and owners. Mr. Hyde also has litigated many business and contractual disputes for local and national clients. He has represented a number of commercial landlords and tenants in landlord-tenant disputes and litigation, as well as many regional and national banks and mortgage lenders in connection with mortgage foreclosures, loan workouts and collection actions. Mr. Hyde earned his B.S., summa cum laude, from Brigham Young University-Hawaii and his J.D. degree from Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. He is a member of the State Bar of Arizona and the Hawaii State Bar Association, where he practiced with Hawaii's second largest law firm, and taught civil litigation and business law courses at Brigham Young University-Hawaii as an adjunct instructor. DENISE LOWELL-BRITT has been a partner in the Mesa law firm of Udall, Shumway & Lyons, PLC since 1993. Ms. Lowell-Britt devotes her practice entirely to education law and heads the firm's education law practice group. In November 2006, she was named A Top Education Attorney in Phoenix Magazine. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, she was selected by her peers as A Best Lawyer in America in the specialty of education law. She earned her B.S. degree, cum laude, from Cornell University (New York) and her J.D. degree from Arizona State University. Ms. Lowell-Britt has been a regular presenter at state-wide conferences and conducts a great many in-service and training programs for school personnel on a variety of topics relating to education law. She also has authored articles for National and State publications on a variety of topics of interest to educators. Most recently, an article she authored on report cards and transcripts for students with disabilities was published in the "Attorney's Corner" of NAU's eJournal of Education Policy. Ms. Lowell-Britt is a member of the National School Board Association, Arizona School Boards Association and Arizona Council of School Attorneys. She has been an adjunct faculty member for Arizona State University, teaching graduate level education law classes for the College of Education, Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Ms. Lowell-Britt also has been on the Steering Committee for the Arizona School Administrators Principal and the Law conference for approximately 15 years. She also has been a regular speaker at the annual law conferences sponsored by the Arizona School Boards Association and the Arizona Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE). In March 2009, Ms. Lowell-Britt was presented with the Laura Ganoung Award, which is CASE's highest award recognizing leadership in the area of special education. Ms. Lowell-Britt proudly serves as the current president of the Save the Family Foundation. For 23 years, Save the Family has been empowering families to conquer homelessness and achieve life-long independence. BARBARA L. McCLOUD is a partner with the law firm Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., where her practice is concentrated on employment, labor and education law. She has extensive experience advising and representing employers and management in mediation, arbitration and litigation before tribal, state and federal agencies and courts in actions involving employment discrimination/harassment and retaliation, sexual harassment, employment contracts, non-competition/non-solicitation and trade secrets, wrongful termination, reductions-in-force, and related matters. Ms. McCloud is a former in-house counsel, who possesses a Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis in labor and employment. She uses a team approach to work with her clients in a proactive and cost-effective manner to identify and manage personnel, human resources and related compliance matters through training and counseling before they escalate to litigation. She is a former director of equal opportunity and affirmative action. Ms. McCloud has hands-on experience designing, preparing and defending recordkeeping and personnel tracking, affirmative action, and compensation plans/programs and representing employers in OFCCP actions. She has more than 30 years of presentation and training experience to trade and professional associations; and executives and employees on a wide range of employment and labor topics, including human resources and personnel management, ethics, diversity, discrimination, harassment and retaliation prevention, supervision and leadership, privacy and social networking, recordkeeping, electronic discovery, and organizational behavior. Ms. McCloud's education practice includes advising charter and private schools, as well as colleges and universities on a variety of areas, including administration, management, open meeting compliance, recordkeeping, policy and procedure, special education, student and faculty rights and responsibilities, free speech and privacy, due process, and compliance with state and federal law. She has regularly represented education clients through mediation, arbitration and litigation before various tribal, state and federal agencies, and state, federal and appellate courts. She is a member of the State Bar of Arizona, The Mississippi Bar, the Kansas and American bar associations, and the Society for Human Resource Management. Ms. McCloud earned her B.S. degree from Northern Arizona University and her M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Kansas. JESSICA S. SANCHEZ is an attorney with the law firm of Udall, Shumway & Lyons, PLC. She focuses her practice primarily in the area of education law, representing school districts and charter schools throughout the state. Prior to joining Udall, Shumway & Lyons, PLC, she served as in-house legal counsel for the Scottsdale Unified School District. Ms. Sanchez has experience providing legal advice and representation to school districts on a broad range of matters, including but not limited to, student rights, civil rights, personnel, and governing board liability issues. She has conducted many in-service training programs on a variety of topics, such as student records, staff ethics, public records, special education law and child abuse reporting guidelines. Ms. Sanchez earned her B.A. degree from Northern Arizona University and her J.D. degree from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. While in law school, she interned for a variety of agencies, including the Arizona Attorney General's office, the city of Phoenix mayor's office and the city of Phoenix prosecutor's office. She chaired the Street Law Pro Bono Project, a high school instructional program, and was a recipient of the Pro Bono Distinction Award. Ms. Sanchez is a member of the State Bar of Arizona, the Arizona Council of School Attorneys, the Arizona School Boards Association and the National School Boards Association. She currently serves as an executive officer on the Board of Directors for the Los Abogados Hispanic Bar Association. In her spare time, Ms. Sanchez volunteers for a number of youth outreach programs and serves on the Board of Directors for A Stepping Stone Foundation.
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