Schools face an array of legal issues that include negotiating contracts, firing teachers, expelling students, following federal and state requirements, seeking restraining orders, possibly even defending against suits by parents angry over cheerleading. As their legal matters increase in frequency and complexity, a growing number of public school systems around Atlanta have hired in-house counsel.
“I think more should,” said Dorsey E. Hopson II, newly named general counsel for Clayton County Public Schools. Although Hopson started his new job this week, he had been representing the Clayton County Board of Education through his law firm, Greenberg Traurig. Previously, he spent five years with the in-house legal department of Atlanta Public Schools, including a year as interim general counsel. He will be Clayton’s first GC.
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