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Nick Pittner is a partner with Bricker & Eckler LLP and a member of the education group and a participant in the mental retardation/developmental disabilities group. His practice emphasizes education law, and public finance labor relations, including litigation and collective bargaining.
Representative Experience
Has served as trial counsel in numerous precedent making cases involving major education law issues in State and Federal Courts, including the constitutionality of Ohio's school funding laws
Regularly participates in the negotiation of public school district collective bargaining agreements involving both teaching and non teaching bargaining units and has participated in numerous administrative hearings before such agencies as the Board of Tax Appeals, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, the Ohio Industrial Commission, the State Department of Education, the Board of Building Appeals and the State Employment Relations Board
Author of articles dealing with such areas as the levy and collection of school district taxes, public sector collective bargaining and legal issues in special education
Lectures extensively on matters related to school law at state and national conferences
Community and Professional Activities
Member, American, Ohio State and Columbus Bar Associations
Past Chairman, Ohio State Bar Association School Law Committee
Past Chairman, Ohio Council of School Board Attorneys
Past Director, Upper Arlington Civic Association
Past President, Columbus Amateur Radio Association
Member, Ohio Council of School Board Attorneys
Member, National School Boards Association Council of School Board Attorneys
Past Secretary, Capital University Law School Alumni Board
Awards and Recognition
Recipient, Ohio Association of Local School Superintendents' Friends of Education Award, 1997
Recipient, Ohio School Boards Association's President's Award, 1997
Named "2000 Ohioan of the Year" by the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Publications
Title VII An Overview, National Council of School Board Attorneys, 1980
Managing the Burden of Proof: The School District's Role in a Due Process Hearing, The Ohio Department of Education, 1982
Monograph, "The View of the Board of Education and School Administration Toward Ohio's Public Employee Collective Bargaining Law," University of Toledo, 1984
Co author (with Dr. Robert Whitman), monograph, "Planning, Promoting and Passing School Tax Issues," The Ohio School Boards Association, 1986, 1988
How Can We Fund a Quality Education System?, (part 1) Capital Briefs, Winter 1993
Funding Reform in Ohio, (part 2) Capital Briefs, Spring 1993
Education
The Ohio State University (B.A., 1964)
Capital University Law School (J.D., 1970)
Capital University Law School (Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, 2001).
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