Michael P. McKeon

Michael P. McKeon is a member of the firm. He represents boards of education, municipalities and private-sector employers across Connecticut in both federal and state courts, on both the trial and appellate levels, as well as before federal and state boards and commissions. He has established new case law in Connecticut in the areas of special education and Title IX, and a number of decisions he has obtained on behalf of clients have been cited by courts across the country. His verdicts on behalf of clients have been featured in front-page articles in The Connecticut Law Tribune, as well as in The Hartford Courant, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, and have also been the subject of television news reports.

Attorney McKeon is a frequent speaker on both education and employment law issues, including on the national level at both the National School Boards Association’s annual conference and the Council of School Attorneys’ annual conference. Attorney McKeon has also spoken at the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education’s annual conventions on special education law, gender equity in student athletics, and both gender and disability-based student harassment, was an author of Employer’s Guide to Federal Labor and Employment Laws and Regulations, and in 2005 was the only school board attorney in Connecticut selected by the State Department of Education to represent the interests of school districts in the selection of special education hearing officers.

Attorney McKeon is admitted to practice law in the State of Connecticut, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association – including membership on the Education Law Committee and the Labor and Employment Law Committee – the Hartford County Bar Association and both the Connecticut and National Councils of School Attorneys. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and in the University of Bridgeport’s Department of Education Leadership, and prior to attending law school was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Missouri.

Attorney McKeon received his legal education from the University of Connecticut School of Law, (J.D) where he was an editor of the Connecticut Law Review, a Dean’s Fellow, and the Class Speaker at the 1987 Commencement. He has a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Missouri and received his B.A. from the University of New Hampshire, where he majored in English.

He practices in the Hartford, Connecticut office.

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