Erin Wortman

Erin works alongside clients and advises on a variety of educational law matters including labor and employment issues, student discipline and rights, special education and 504 matters, relationships with school resource officers, serving transgender students, employee misconduct and investigations, booster matters, and general school law practice. She is a member of the firm’s Special Education Practice Team and Career Technical Center Practice Team. Erin has served as a lead negotiator in bargaining and defended boards of education in arbitration, court cases, special education mediations, and due process hearings. She has represented school boards before a variety of federal and state administrative agencies, including the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, the State Employment Relations Board, the Office for Exceptional Children (Ohio), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. Erin thoroughly enjoys being a frequent presenter at local and state professional conferences, and at administrator and staff professional development trainings. She uses her background in theatre and education in broadcasting to engage on a variety of topics including annual legal updates, professional ethics and codes of conduct, Title IX regulations, relationships with school resource officers, First Amendment concerns, managing booster groups, serving students with disabilities, employee management and leave matters, and handling employee misconduct.