Sweet Stevens Attorneys Offer Insights for PA Bar’s School Law Update
News Release
New Britain, PA – Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams LLP Partner David F. Conn and Special Counsel Andrew E. Faust were among the featured speakers for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) 2024 School Law Update webcast held in October, 2024. This annual program provides an overview of the latest legal developments affecting Pennsylvania schools.
Conn moderated a panel discussing Title IX updates, which conducted an overview of the proposed 2024 regulatory changes and discussed the litigation challenging those regulations. Faust participated on a panel that discussed the needs of students facing educational disruption related to detention, foster placement, mental health treatment, and homelessness.
Over the years, Conn has represented county agencies, townships, boroughs, school districts and municipal authorities. His experience spans a wide range of cases, from administrative hearings to appeals before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He focuses his practice on employee discrimination, labor and employment, municipal law, right-to-know law, solicitor services, special education, and student services.
Faust is a widely recognized authority in the areas of special education, student services and child accounting, and student civil rights. He has represented school districts and intermediate units at every level of the federal and state judicial and administrative systems, lectured widely to audiences of educators and attorneys, and testified as an expert witness in court proceedings and before state and federal agencies.
The program, which is eligible for 4 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states and 4.8 hours of CLE credit in 50-minute states, is available on demand from the PBI website.
Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams, LLP was formed in 1995 by nine experienced education lawyers who created the first private law practice in Pennsylvania dedicated entirely to Education Law. Since then, the firm has grown to 26 attorneys who represent over 290 school and municipal entities as Solicitors or as Special Counsel in more than 50 counties throughout Pennsylvania, and in additional practice areas, such as Construction Law, Tax Assessment Appeals, Audit of Operations and Practices, Real Estate Law and Oil, Gas and Mineral Law.