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STEVEN D. BROWN most recently served as assistant principal of Orting Middle School in Washington . Prior to coming to Orting, he taught business education at Eastlake High School in the Lake Washington School District . Mr. Brown has served as Associate Faculty at City University since 2005, where he teaches school law to prospective administrators and teachers. Mr. Brown is also the founder of kidLAW®, a program he created in 1995 to provide young people with interactive programs about the law, along with communication, leadership and literacy skills. In previous lives, Mr. Brown practiced law in the areas of civil litigation and employment law with Stokes Lawrence and Perkins Coie in Seattle , as well as practicing part-time in various other positions while he obtained his teaching and school administrator certificates. He served for four years on the Seattle School Board and has been an officer on numerous boards and advisory boards for youth programs. Mr. Brown earned his B.A. degree from the University of Chicago and his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. JEFFREY GANSON is an associate in the Seattle law firm of Dionne & Rorick LLP, where he practices in the areas of school law and municipal law. Mr. Ganson represents numerous school districts on matters including student discipline, employee discipline and termination, special education, real property transactions and land use issues, constitutional law issues, contracts and general litigation. His municipal practice includes drafting ordinances, advising on and litigating various land use and utilities issues and general litigation. Mr. Ganson earned his B.A. degree from the University of Washington and his J.D. degree from the University of Washington School of Law where he was managing editor of the Washington Law Review. CHARLES W. LIND serves as general counsel and director of labor relations for the Kent School District in Kent, Washington. From 1990 to 2006, he was a deputy prosecutor in the criminal division of the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Seattle, Washington. From 2000 to 2006, Mr. Lind coordinated the King County Prosecutor's School Violence Program, where he handled assaults, weapons, threats, and other offenses that impacted the safety of the nineteen school districts within King County. He has been a speaker and trainer for D.A.R.E. Officers, the Washington Security and School Resource Officers Association, the National Association of School Resource Officers, the Washington Criminal Justice Training Center, the National College of District Attorneys, numerous school districts and police agencies, and has served on the faculty of the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. Mr. Lind earned his B.S. degree from Corban College and his J.D. degree from the University of Washington.
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