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School Board Reviews Potential Attorneys

There was a public work session this week in which members of the Perry Township School Board reviewed applicants interested in representing the township as district school attorney.

There were a number of applicants:

• Jon Bailey of Bose McKinney & Evans (2yr incumbent)
• David Day of Church Church Hittle & Antrim
• William Groth of Fillenwarth Dennerline Groth & Towe
• John Helm of Schreckengast Helm & Cueller
• John Lewis of Lewis & Wilkins
• J. Lee Robbins of Williams Hewitt Barrett & Wilkowski
• D. Michael Wallman and Bob Rund of Rund Wallman & Robbins
• Thomas Wheeler of Locke Reynolds

There were a few individuals that shared their own opinions about what candidate would be the best choice. Keith Brown has an article in the Indy Spotlight where some of those comments were shared from the community individuals.

In Mr. Brown’s article, he include the 12 questions that were asked of each candidate.

1. In three minutes, what is your assessment of Perry Township Schools and our board?
2. School law, in many instances, is a specialty area with specific legislation written targeting the public school systems. What experiences, background and training have you had to prepare you to represent the 12th largest school district in the state?
3. What percentage of your practice is educational law?
4. How many lawyers in your firm represent Indiana school districts?
5. How have you or your firm ever represented or held a professional or personal attorney/client relationship with any of our board members?
6. Do you serve as insurance defense counsel for any Indiana school liability insurance carrier?
7. What is your current involvement in our community or the school district in relationship to legal matters?
8. In serving as the school attorney, who would you expect to communicate with in this district? If you are contacted by a board member other than the board president, and that board member asks you to initiate research or provide individual counsel, how would you respond?
9. Please review your fee structure and all other costs that may be assessed in relationship to serving Perry Township Schools as their board attorney.
10. What other organizations do you currently represent in your practice and how do you plan to allocate your time in serving this board and their needs?
11. When requesting assistance, will you be our primary source of contact or will this be done by a junior partner, associate or paralegal?
12. Is there any other question that you would like to respond to and we have not posed?