For Principals and Other School Administrators

Though many people in Education mistakenly think traditional Labor and Employment Law protects only teachers and other union workers, there are federal and state employment laws which also protect superintendents, principals and other school administrators. We have substantial experience representing highly compensated, school administrators with their employment issues such as severance, non-renewal or breach of employment contract, termination, layoff, retaliation, whistle blowing, age discrimination, sex discrimination, and other forms of employment discrimination. Below are a few of the cases we’ve handled successfully for school administrators. If you are a superintendent, assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other school administrator with a similar employment problem, contact us today.

Nature of Case	Results	Jurisdiction
Termination of Services of Professional Employees of a Public School District	Negotiated the retirement of the long-time Superintendent of a successful, public school district who was falsely accused of immorality, misconduct in office, neglect of duty, and incompetence.	Sussex County, Delaware
Reverse Race Discrimination and Age Discrimination; Non-renewal of Contract	Obtained a six figure settlement for a then 55 year old Caucasian public school principal whose contract was nonrenewed by her African-American superintendent who previously stated publicly that she wanted more “African- Americans” and more “young people” in leadership roles.	United States District Court For the District of Delaware
Sexual Orientation Discrimination; Non-renewal of Contract	Obtained a six figure contract buyout for a homosexual public school principal whose contract was non-renewed because of her sexual orientation.	Delaware Department Of Labor Division of Industrial Affairs
Retaliation and Race Discrimination; Demotion	Procured a settlement package with a contract buyout for an African-American public school administrator who was demoted just two days after she reported to Human Resources a hostile work environment because of her race.	United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Client Testimonials

“Retirement is wonderful!! We thank God (and you) every day that we moved forward with our legal action . . . . It helped insure we can really enjoy this stage of our lives and be comfortable knowing our money will outlast us and hopefully help our children and grandchildren! Life is good John and you were very instrumental in making it that way!”

– SA