Clark Hill Attorney Barbara A. Ruga to Present During the Michigan Council of School Attorneys 27th Annual Fall School Law Conference on October 22, 2015
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Clark Hill attorney Barbara A. Ruga will present Legal Do’s and Don’ts in Conducting Evaluations during the Michigan Council of School Attorneys (MCSA) 27th Annual Fall School Law Conference on October 22, 2015. The Fall School Law Conference offers pertinent and timely topics for school officials and attorneys who are involved in the legal aspects of education. This year is no exception, and Ruga will present updates on union challenges to teacher evaluations and the House version of Senate Bill 103, currently under consideration.
Ruga is a member in Clark Hill’s Grand Rapids office where she practices in the Education and Municipal Practice Group as well as the Labor & Employment Law Practice Group. For more than 38 years, Ruga has been advising and counseling public and private employers on a wide variety of labor law and employment issues. Ruga has extensive experience negotiating public sector contracts in a context of scarce resources. She has also handled numerous unfair labor practice charges, fact-findings, OCR and EEO claims and related employment litigation. Ruga advocates for prevention through education, and to that end specializes in employee training programs to clients and public school organizations.
A past president of the Michigan Council for School Attorneys, Ruga has been recognized by her peers as a leader in the school labor negotiations field through the prestigious Harlow Claggett award, received in 2007 for her contributions to public school labor negotiations, and is frequently asked to speak at industry conferences throughout the State. In addition, Ruga was recently designated Grand Rapids' 2016 "Lawyer of the Year" for Education Law in the 22nd Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Only a single lawyer in each practice area in each community is honored as the "Lawyer of the Year."
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