Jeremy is a shareholder with the firm. Before becoming an attorney with the firm, he was a high school social studies teacher and coach for several years and served as the firm’s law clerk.  Jeremy has also worked for the Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding (DeRolph litigation), was twice appointed to ODE’s Ohio Teacher Education and Licensure Advisory Commission, and authored an article in the University of Illinois Journal of School Finance on Ohio’s constitutional standard for school funding.

Jeremy assists clients with a variety of education law issues, including special education, student discipline, and labor and employment matters. He has represented boards of education in state and federal court, teacher termination hearings, territory transfer hearings, labor arbitration, special education due process hearings, and in a variety of administrative proceedings including before the State Employment Relations Board, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Ohio Department of Education, the Ohio High School Athletics Association, and county boards of revision.

Jeremy frequently speaks throughout Ohio and nationally on education law topics at conferences and staff training seminars.

Recent National and International Presentations

• Ongoing: Ennis Britton’s “On the Call” podcast co-host
• “Unlocking Potential: Special Education Compliance During Incarceration” International Correctional Education Association Annual Conference, July 29, 2024
• “Successfully Mapping the Exit from IDEA Services” LRP National Institute (Savannah, GA) May 6, 2024
• “An Ounce of Prevention: COVID Lessons Learned for Future Disruptions” LRP School Attorneys Conference (Savannah, GA) May 5, 2024
• “Supporting Staff by Supporting Parents” and “Coaching the Coaches: 504 Compliance for Extracurricular Activities” Council of Administrators for Special Education (CASE) National Conference (Pittsburgh, PA) November 10, 2023
• “Coaching the Coaches” and “Building Parent Partnerships” LRP National Institute (New Orleans, LA) April 18 and 19, 2023
• “Is this Normal? Evaluation Requests When You Return to Learn” and “An Extended Review of Extended School Year” LRP National Institute (Louisville, KY) April 26 and 27, 2022
• “Supporting the Changing Needs of Students with Anxiety Post-Pandemic” LRP National Webinar, August 31, 2021
• “Wish You Were Here! Planning for Remove Learning” and “Trouble on the Home Front: MDRs in Virtual and Hybrid Settings” LRP National Institute (Phoenix, AZ/virtual), April 20, 2021
• “Real-World Strategies for Virtual IEP and 504 Team Meetings” LRP National Webinar, September 3, 2020

 Recent Ohio Presentations

• “From Misbehavior to Appeals: A Walk-Through of Student Discipline” OSBA Capital Conference, November 11, 2024
• “Legal Update” State Support Team 12, October 21, 2024
• “Coach’s Playbook: Law for Extracurriculars” BASA Fall Conference, October 1, 2024
• “Legal Update for School Business Officials” OASBO Ohio Valley Chapter, September 20, 2024
• “Legal Roadshow Workshop” BASA/Ohio Valley ESC, June 12, 2024
• “Tech Savvy/Legal Savvy: AI Issue Spotting in K-12 Education”, Butler County ESC Artificial Intelligence Summer Syposium, June 4, 2024
• “Legal Update” Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools, March 22, 2023
• “Coach’s Playbook: Law for Extracurriculars” OSBA Capital Conference, November 14, 2022
• “Legal Update” OASPA Fall Conference, September 22, 2022
• “Treasurer’s Role in Negotiations” OASBO Ohio Valley Chapter, September 16, 2022
• “School Law, Professionalism, and COVID-19” OSBA Capital Conference, November 10, 2020

 Published Works

• “A Thorough and Efficient Definition of ‘Thorough and Efficient’: The Starting Point for Meaningful School Funding Reform,” Journal of Education Finance33(1): 470 (University of Illinois Press)
• “Parent Partnerships Essential to Special Education Success,” Ohio School Boards Association Journal62(1) (April 2018)
• October 12, 2015: “What Rules Address Educator Misconduct in Ohio?,” Ohio State Bar Association “Law You Can Use” Online Publication