Katherine Gilfillan has more than 15 years of experience providing advice and counsel to public institutions, boards of education, trustees, and administrators in the area of labor and employment, public contracting, public governance, teacher and student discipline, FMLA/FLA, Title IX, FERPA, special education, Freedom of Speech and other constitutional issues, collectively negotiated agreements, compliance and risk management, construction, workers compensation, conflicts of interest, policy development and implementation, OPRA/OPMA, and all facets of internal investigations and litigation.

As an education attorney, Kate regularly assists her clients in transactions, operations issues, litigation and governmental investigations appearing before New Jersey’s Commissioner of Education, the United States Department of Education/Office of Civil Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New Jersey’s Division of Civil Rights, New Jersey’s Civil Service Commission, as well as state and Federal courts. She also advises clients on employment law matters, including personnel management, compensation, termination, and lease issues.

Kate supplements her court-based advocacy with in-service trainings in the areas of board operations and functions, administrator and supervisor oversight responsibilities, school ethics, IDEA and 504 compliance, HIB and sexual harassment investigations, employee discipline, as well as ADA compliance.