For the fifth year in a row U.S. News and Best Lawyers have named Mickes Goldman O’Toole, LLC as one of the “Best Law Firms” in the country, and the only one in St. Louis, in the area of Education Law. The only other firm so recognized in Missouri other than ours is a...
Published by MoASBO, November 2014 The Missouri legislature recently modified the law that governs when firearms may be permitted in schools. As of September, school districts may designate a “School Protection Officer” (SPO) to carry a firearm on school property as...
Natalie Hoernschemeyer of the firm’s education department successfully represented Poplar Bluff R-I School District before the Missouri Court of Appeals. After a hearing before the District’s Board of Education, the Board terminated a tenured teacher for incompetency...
On June 10, 2013, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri dismissed the last of three separate ADA lawsuits filed against Mickes Goldman O'Toole, LLC clients in Phelps County Missouri (the other two cases had previously been dismissed)....
On May 31, 2013, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law exonerating MGO client Jefferson County R-VII School District of all charges that it discriminated against a student on the basis of race....
Registration for the 2012 School Law Seminars is now open. The sessions will be held: Columbia, MO - Holiday Inn Executive Center - July 29, 2012 St. Louis, MO - Maryville University - Auditorium - August 2, 2012 Cape Girardeau, MO - Southeast Missouri State...
Registration for the 2011 School Law Seminars is now open. The sessions will be held: Columbia, MO - Holiday Inn Executive Center - July 31, 2011 St. Louis, MO - Maryville University - Auditorium - August 4, 2011 Cape Girardeau, MO - Southeast Missouri State...
Natalie Hoernschemeyer successfully represented a Missouri school district in a breach of contract lawsuit brought by the unsuccessful bidders for a construction contract with the district. The lawsuit demanded $275,814.00 in alleged damages. On July 27, 2010, the...
Registration is now open for the Fall 2010 Mickes Goldman O’Toole, LLC School Law Seminars. These highly popular legal education events for school administrators, board members and superintendents will be held at five locations around the state of Missouri during...
