Candace Gomez

Candace represents school districts, colleges, universities, corporations and individuals. She has successfully represented clients in the courts of New York State, federal court, New York State Education Department impartial hearings, New York State Commissioner of Education appeals, and U. S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigations. Candace has provided general counsel services and litigation services to some of the largest school districts and universities in New York State. Her experience includes policy development, contracts, school board elections, employee disciplinary proceedings, student residency requirements, special education and student disciplinary hearings. She also has extensive experience defending clients in a variety of civil litigation matters. Candace has conducted numerous seminars and workshops on various education law topics, including presentations for the Nassau County Bar Association, the Annual School Law Conference hosted by the Nassau and Suffolk Academies of Law, and the Annual School Attorney Law Conference hosted by the New York State Association of School Attorneys. Candace regularly writes education law articles for The Suffolk Lawyer. She has been appointed to the New York State Bar Association President’s Committee on Access to Justice and she is the Vice-Chair of the Nassau County Bar Association Education Law Committee. Candace’s early legal training includes a prestigious internship at Rolls-Royce, North America while attending law school and, as an undergraduate student, she was selected as the commencement speaker of her university’s graduating class.