When Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher won a ruling earlier this month that California’s teacher tenure laws are unconstitutional, the firm predicted a steady stream of copycat suits would follow. Sure enough, now Jay Lefkowitz and his colleagues at Kirkland & Ellis are taking up the mantle in New York.
As The Wall Street Journal first reported, Lefkowitz is planing to bring a lawsuit challenging New York’s job protections for teachers, arguing that they undermine the right to education enshrined in the state’s constitution. The suit, which Kirkland is handling pro bono, will be filed later this summer in New York Supreme Court in Albany. Kirkland’s clients are Partnership for Educational Justice, an advocacy group founded by former CNN anchorwoman Campbell Brown, and six New York schoolchildren.
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]