General Membership Meeting + CLE (June 2021)

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING

JULY 2021

The Government as Educator

Justin R. Chapa, Esq. | Of Counsel, Morgan Lewis

Presentation Synopsis.

Mr. Chapa will review seminal Supreme Court education opinions, focusing on student speech and school search cases, and discuss their implications for educators, students, and the public.

Speaker Bio.

Justin spent his undergraduate years at Harvard University, where he earned a BA in Government with honors and became the first person in his family to graduate from college. Determined to ensure that students from similar backgrounds have the same opportunity, he joined Teach for America after college and taught 12th Grade Government and Economics at Rivera High School in Brownsville, Texas. While at Rivera, he sponsored the campus student council and coordinated an afterschool credit-recovery program. After his Teach for America commitment ended, Justin attended Stanford Law School, where he served on the Executive Board of the Stanford Law Review and concurrently earned an MA in Education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He then worked as a law clerk to federal District Judge David C. Godbey and U.S. Fifth Circuit Judge Catharina Haynes. Today, Justin is Of Counsel in the Dallas office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, where he focuses his practice on Government Enforcement and Appellate matters. He has been named a Texas Rising Star for five consecutive years, four times in Appellate Law and once in Civil Litigation Defense. Since September 2017, Justin has served on the Board of Trustees for the Arlington ISD, where he currently is Chair of the Board’s Governance Committee. In October 2020, Justin was elected to the Board of Directors of the Texas Association of School Boards, the statewide advocacy organization for school boards in Texas.

CLE Credit

1.0 hour of general paralegal CLE credit issued through DAPA 

ZOOM MEETING INFO

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