Integrated Service Center Counsel

Each Integrated Service Center (ISC) has a team of two senior attorneys and a paralegal to provide legal support to the ISC and SSO staffs, as well as to school leadership throughout the borough.

The ISC counsel provide direct assistance to administrators and school leadership in resolving matters with legal implications. The attorneys also provide guidance in interpreting and implementing the Chancellor’s Regulations.

ISC Counsel can provide legal guidance in many areas, including:

• Labor and Employment law, including employee discipline
• student safety and health
• student discipline
• school policies, including religious accommodations, dress codes, school trips, school security, student health, etc.
• facilities issues
• other school-based legal issues as needed
• assist with responses to litigation, human rights investigations, student discipline matters and other legal matters

The ISC Counsel also provide regular trainings to school leadership on a variety of legal issues. Specific trainings can be requested through your ISC counsel.