About

Lindsay advises clients regarding a variety of education law matters, including all facets of labor and employment issues, student rights and discipline, labor disputes, public records law, employee benefits, special education, student privacy issues, and board policy and administrative guideline changes. She has served as lead negotiator in bargaining for teachers and non-teaching staff, defended boards at the State Employment Relations Board, and successfully advised clients in termination proceedings and labor arbitrations. 

Lindsay also has significant experience litigating lawsuits filed in both state and federal court, as well as charges filed with state and federal administrative agencies, including the Ohio Civil Rights Commission; U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and U.S. Department Education, Office for Civil Rights. She has represented school boards and private schools in lawsuits regarding state and federal anti-discrimination laws, workers’ compensation appeals, student and staff injuries, contract claims, voting rights laws, statutory immunity issues, special education, and free speech rights, among numerous other claims. Lindsay has also argued multiple state and federal court appeals, including those before numerous Ohio district court panels and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Lindsay is also a frequent speaker at school law conferences and provides in-service training to administrators and staff members alike. She is a member of the Ohio School Boards Association’s Ohio Council of School Board Attorneys, National School Boards Association’s Council of School Attorneys, Ohio State Bar Association, and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. 

Experience

• Represented school board and administrators in both federal and state cases involving student suicide. The matter is likely to have repercussions throughout the state of Ohio with respect to how accountable schools might be for student-to-student bullying.

• Successfully defended district’s decision to subcontract transportation during negotiations, both during the grievance and before the State Employment Relations Board. The favorable decision at SERB makes it more likely that other districts will have the same subcontracting option.

• Argued challenge to Ohio background check legislation before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, resulting in the law remaining intact, as well as numerous school district decisions to release former offenders from employment.

• Drafted all legal memoranda and coordinated expert discovery in a federal Voting Rights Act case brought by U.S. Department of Justice against a board of education, where the judge ordered the remedial election plan proffered by the district in a case of first impression with nationwide impact.

Recognitions

• Ohio Super Lawyers List - 2023-2024

• Ohio Super Lawyers “Rising Star” – 2012-2022

Education

• Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., with honors, 2008

• The Ohio State University, B.A., cum laude and with honors, 2004

Admissions

• Ohio, 2008

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit

• U.S. Dist. Ct., N. Dist. of Ohio

• U.S. Dist. Ct., S. Dist. of Ohio

Memberships and Affiliations

• Ohio School Boards Association’s Ohio Council of School Board Attorneys

• National School Boards Association’s Council of School Attorneys

• Ohio State Bar Association, Education Law Committee Vice Chair

• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association