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Elected and Appointed

Wisler Pearlstine announced that partner Amy T. Brooks was a participant on a state task force known as the "Pennsylvania School Reopening Task Force" to provide specific guidance to schools, and in particular special education programs to reopen in the fall.

The report is the first such statewide guidance from 150 cross-disciplinary educators and attorneys and eight statewide school organizations to provide guidance to help local school officials, administrators and superintendents on all aspects of reopening in the fall.

The task force started the work of beginning to outline challenges, considerations and ideas for solutions that could be helpful to schools in their planning, and it emphasized planning, coordination and communication to ensure students are learning in safe environments

Brooks, an attorney practicing special educator law, and the Section 8 director of the Pennsylvania School Board Solicitor's Association, was asked by the association to help craft the 29-page special education school section of the report.

She will be part of statewide webinars for educators and administrators that are seto to start in July.

In her practice. Brooks works with school clients planning their reopening to ensure they have well-thought-out, lasting solutions that meet cross-disciplinary legal requirements.

She regularly helps schools understand and navigate the existing legal framework in which they operate in order to proactively achieve their goals.

Brooks litigates for school clients in administrative and local agency proceedings up through the appeals process.

She defends schools against legal claims such as those brought under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Improvement Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as representing schools in investigations by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and U.S. Office for Civil Rights.

Brooks also advises schools regarding student records and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, issues of risk management, matters of child abuse and reporting under the Child Protective Services Law, Homelessness under the McKinney Vento Act, sexual harassment and gender equity involving Title IX, and bullying and harassment investigations under Pennsylvania's Anti-Bullying Law.

She is a 2005 graduate of Temple University Beasley Law School.

Speakers

Steve Ryan, an attorney at Martin Law, is set to be a speaker during the Dauphin County Bar Association's CLE Compliance Week.

He is slated to be one of two speakers for the Workers' Compensation Compliance CLE on Aug. 3.

The CLE session will focus on recent case law updates for workers' compensation.

Ryan heads the Martin Law's Camp Hill office and is a certified specialist in Pennsylvania workers' compensation law as authorized by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Prior to joining the firm, Ryan worked for a regional firm that helped claimants secure workers' compensation benefits in the Susquehanna Valley.

Before practicing claimant's workers' compensation, he worked at a defense firm.

Ryan received his law degree from Widener University Commonwealth Law School in 2007.

He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Dauphin County Bar Association and Pennsylvania Association for Justice.

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