Posts by Petrarca, Gleason, Boyle & Izzo, LLC

Please join us for our Spring Legal Breakfasts on Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 at the Oak Brook Regency Towers Conference Center and Wednesday, April 11th at the Tinley Park Convention Center. Please click the link below for more information. We look forward to seeing you! 2018 – Spring Legal Breakfast Flyer 

The legal forum will focus on employee relations and how to deal with disciplinary issues.

At this year’s Illinois Association of School Business Officials’ Leadership Academy on Debt Issuance from A-Z, John M. Izzo will be one of the presenters for the 8th year in a row. Along with Sarah Miller of Ed-Red, his topic will be “School Finance Law and Legislative Update”. This presentation will be on Thursday, March…

The laws governing special education interact in confusing and sometimes contradictory ways, yet it is crucial that schools have a firm understanding of them in order to protect the rights of students and avoid legal difficulties. This comprehensive overview lays out all the legal requirements surrounding IEP development, discipline procedures, due process hearing requirements and…

On Thursday, February 15, 2018, at 8:30 a.m., John M. Izzo will be speaking regarding Legal Updates for the West Cook Regional Association of School Business Officials at the West 40 ISC 2 – Region 6, 4413 West Roosevelt Road – Suite 104-105, Hillside, Illinois.

Please join us for our Winter Legal Breakfasts on Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 at the Oak Brook Regency Towers Conference Center and Wednesday, January 31st at the Tinley Park Convention Center. Please click the link below for more information. We look forward to seeing you! 2018-Winter Legal Breakfast Flyer

We are pleased to announce that we will be holding our Back to School Legal Breakfasts on Tuesday, September 12th, 2017 at the Tinley Park Convention Center and Wednesday, September 13th, 2017 at the  Oak Brook Regency Towers Conference Center. Please click the link below for more information.  We look forward to seeing you! Back to School 2017…

Courtney N. Stillman will present “Writing Legally Defensible IEP Goals in the Wake of Endrew F..” at the fall conference of the Illinois Alliance of Administrators of Special Education on September 28, 2017 at the Tinley Park Convention Center, Tinley Park, Illinois Trisha A. Olson will be presenting Successfully Handling Disciplinary Actions for Special Needs Students at the National Business Institute’s seminar…

At this year’s Illinois Association of School Business Official Annual Conference at the Peoria Civic Center, John M. Izzo will be one of the presenters on Thursday, April 27, 2017.  First, John and Erin Bartholomy of Chapman & Cutler with give a State Legislative Update at 11:00 A.M. to 12:00 noon.  Then, along with Kyle…

Ms. Olson will be speaking at the Chicago Bar Association’s presentation entitled “Senate Bill 100:  Here and Now” on Wednesday, March 29th, 2017.  Ms. Olson will present “From a school district’s perspective:  school district attorneys discuss experiences under the law, their interpretation of the law, recent case law and how they advise their clients.”