Full Name
Teresa Moore
Job Title
Counsel
Board of Education/Business Name
Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland Perretti LLP
Speaker Bio
Teresa L. Moore serves as Counsel to Riker Danzig LLP, in Morristown, NJ.
Ms. Moore has serves as board counsel, general counsel and/or special counsel to boards of education, school districts, charter schools, and independent schools, providing legal advice to school leaders on special education, tenure, ethics, governance, employment discrimination, student discipline, student and staff free speech, and the full range of regulatory and administrative issues facing educational institutions.
Ms. Moore has tried numerous school-related disputes to conclusion in the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law and appears regularly in federal and state courts. She . has also developed a niche practice representing the families of children with disabilities who require special education from school districts that her firm does not represent.
Prior to joining Riker Danzig, Ms. Moore co-created and was counsel to LEGAL ONE in a partnership between Rutgers University and the Foundation for Educational Administration. In that capacity, she developed education law courses for K-12 school leaders and presented them throughout New Jersey. Ms. Moore also consulted with the Institute on Education Law and Policy (IELP) at Rutgers University-Newark, and taught education law as an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School-Newark and Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration. At IELP, she researched and wrote publications including “Governance and Urban School Improvement: Lessons for New Jersey from Nine Cities;” “Shared Services in School Districts: Policies, Practices and Recommendations;” and “Guide to the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.” Before her work with LEGAL ONE and IELP, Ms. Moore practiced law as a litigator with the law firm of McCarter & English, LLP in Newark, New Jersey.
Ms. Moore holds a J.D. from Rutgers Law School-Newark, was a member of the Rutgers Law Review, and is a graduate of Wellesley College with a B.A. in Spanish and English. She studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable John E. Keefe (ret. J.A.D.) in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division.
Ms. Moore has serves as board counsel, general counsel and/or special counsel to boards of education, school districts, charter schools, and independent schools, providing legal advice to school leaders on special education, tenure, ethics, governance, employment discrimination, student discipline, student and staff free speech, and the full range of regulatory and administrative issues facing educational institutions.
Ms. Moore has tried numerous school-related disputes to conclusion in the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law and appears regularly in federal and state courts. She . has also developed a niche practice representing the families of children with disabilities who require special education from school districts that her firm does not represent.
Prior to joining Riker Danzig, Ms. Moore co-created and was counsel to LEGAL ONE in a partnership between Rutgers University and the Foundation for Educational Administration. In that capacity, she developed education law courses for K-12 school leaders and presented them throughout New Jersey. Ms. Moore also consulted with the Institute on Education Law and Policy (IELP) at Rutgers University-Newark, and taught education law as an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School-Newark and Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration. At IELP, she researched and wrote publications including “Governance and Urban School Improvement: Lessons for New Jersey from Nine Cities;” “Shared Services in School Districts: Policies, Practices and Recommendations;” and “Guide to the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.” Before her work with LEGAL ONE and IELP, Ms. Moore practiced law as a litigator with the law firm of McCarter & English, LLP in Newark, New Jersey.
Ms. Moore holds a J.D. from Rutgers Law School-Newark, was a member of the Rutgers Law Review, and is a graduate of Wellesley College with a B.A. in Spanish and English. She studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable John E. Keefe (ret. J.A.D.) in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division.
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