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JACOB S. FELDMAN earned his J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School and his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Brooklyn College. He is admitted to practice law in the State Courts of New York, the United States Supreme Court, the Second Circuit and the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Court of Federal Claims, and the Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York. From September, l977 until December l987, he was an associate senior counsel in the office of the General Counsel to the New York State United Teachers, where he handled school-related litigation involving constitutional and education law rights, seniority disputes, tenure rights and tenure areas in federal and state courts. Since 1987, he has represented public school districts in the capacity as general counsel. He has handled the defense of public school districts in major federal and state litigation involving civil rights, age, race, disability and sexual discrimination matters, sexual harassment complaints, special education matters, complaints alleging First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment violations as related to the collection of school district taxes, and appeals to the Appellate Division, First and Second departments and the New York State Court of Appeals and to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He has handled the successful defense of dozens of impartial hearings and appeals to the State Review Officer and the federal courts on behalf of school districts. He is a member of the Labor and Employment Law sections of the New York State Bar Association; and the former Chairperson of the Education Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association. Mr. Feldman is a frequent speaker and participant in various special education law programs including IEP development, student discipline, preparation for and defense of impartial hearings and the impact of IDEA Reauthorization of 1997 and 2004 conducted by the Nassau County Bar Association, the Nassau-Suffolk Academies of Law, the New York State School Boards Association, and the Long Island Association of Special Education Administrators (“LIASEA”), He is the author of "Americans With Disabilities Act: Employer Obligations," Journal of Individual Employment Rights, Vol.2, #2 and "Discipline of Tenured Employees Pursuant to Education Law §3020-a," Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector , Vol.28, #2. He is a contributing author to the Attorney's Corner of the Centris Group's Directors' Website. He received LIASEA's 2010 Award of Distinction for his special education work on behalf of school districts. He was recognized by Pulse magazine as one of Long Island's "Top Legal Eagles" in the field of Education Law for 2010 and 2011. RANDY P. GLASSER is a member of the firm of Guercio & Guercio LLP, where she specializes in education, municipal and employment law. She has lectured on special education issues at the Annual School Law Conference held by the Suffolk & Nassau Academies of Law, and has trained arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association. Ms. Glasser held the position of staff attorney at Long Island Advocacy and Long Island Advocates, Inc., before joining Guercio & Guercio. She has presented numerous workshops for members of school administration and personnel, on numerous topics, such as sexual harassment, special education and student discipline and residency. Ms. Glasser also served as an associate professor at Adelphi University and as an adjunct professor at Hofstra University and Long Island University. In addition, she was appointed arbitrator on various matters before the American Arbitration Association, New York Stock Exchange and National Association of Securities Dealers. Ms. Glasser concentrates on various aspects of representing municipalities, including school districts, libraries and water and fire districts. She has been a member of the Education Law and the Alternate Dispute Resolution committees at the Nassau County Bar Association and the Disabilities Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association. Ms. Glasser earned her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Maryland and her J.D. degree from Hofstra University School of Law.
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