Full Name
William Donio
Job Title
Partner
Board of Education/Business Name
Cooper Levenson
Speaker Bio
William S. Donio joined Cooper Levenson in 2003 with the merger of his own successful Hammonton, New Jersey -based practice into the firm.
His background is rich with experience in the public sector, with a focus on representing local boards of education. Wil founded and chairs Cooper Levenson’s Education Law practice group, a department that is known throughout the State for its “solution-centered” approach to education law. He represents dozens of school districts, large and small, in every part of the State of New Jersey. Wil serves as solicitor, assigned insurance counsel, and special counsel to local boards. Wil is an adjunct professor at Rutgers School of Law – Camden, where he teaches Education Law & Practice and a faculty member of the SRI-ETTC, where he teaches on Student Rights and Responsibilities, Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying, and other education related topics. He frequently speaks at School Board Association gatherings and conventions, as well as to in-service staff of all types of districts for policy, risk management, and continuing education compliance.
In addition to education law and education-related litigation, Wil’s practice encompasses such areas as commercial litigation, commercial transactions, administrative law, municipal law, real estate development and appeals. Wil also represents privately held commercial entities and works with other practice groups in Employment Law and Municipal/Governmental Services.
Wil is admitted to the bars in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
A graduate of Rutgers College – Rutgers the State University of New Jersey with a B.A. with High Honors in History, Wil was a Presidential Scholarship recipient, a Henry Rutgers Scholar, a Garden State Distinguished Scholar, and a graduate of the General Honors Program. Wil received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was Production Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review, and interned for the Honorable Joseph Rodriguez, USDJ.
Wil has been included on the New Jersey Super Lawyer list in the area of school law and rated Distinguished by Martindale Hubbell in the area of education law. Honored with two “40 Under 40” awards, one from the New Jersey Law Journal and one from Atlantic City Weekly, Wil also volunteers his time for local schools and education foundations, including one founded by Wil and his siblings and named after his father.
He resides in Hammonton, the blueberry capital of the world with his family.
His background is rich with experience in the public sector, with a focus on representing local boards of education. Wil founded and chairs Cooper Levenson’s Education Law practice group, a department that is known throughout the State for its “solution-centered” approach to education law. He represents dozens of school districts, large and small, in every part of the State of New Jersey. Wil serves as solicitor, assigned insurance counsel, and special counsel to local boards. Wil is an adjunct professor at Rutgers School of Law – Camden, where he teaches Education Law & Practice and a faculty member of the SRI-ETTC, where he teaches on Student Rights and Responsibilities, Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying, and other education related topics. He frequently speaks at School Board Association gatherings and conventions, as well as to in-service staff of all types of districts for policy, risk management, and continuing education compliance.
In addition to education law and education-related litigation, Wil’s practice encompasses such areas as commercial litigation, commercial transactions, administrative law, municipal law, real estate development and appeals. Wil also represents privately held commercial entities and works with other practice groups in Employment Law and Municipal/Governmental Services.
Wil is admitted to the bars in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
A graduate of Rutgers College – Rutgers the State University of New Jersey with a B.A. with High Honors in History, Wil was a Presidential Scholarship recipient, a Henry Rutgers Scholar, a Garden State Distinguished Scholar, and a graduate of the General Honors Program. Wil received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was Production Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review, and interned for the Honorable Joseph Rodriguez, USDJ.
Wil has been included on the New Jersey Super Lawyer list in the area of school law and rated Distinguished by Martindale Hubbell in the area of education law. Honored with two “40 Under 40” awards, one from the New Jersey Law Journal and one from Atlantic City Weekly, Wil also volunteers his time for local schools and education foundations, including one founded by Wil and his siblings and named after his father.
He resides in Hammonton, the blueberry capital of the world with his family.
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