Erin Wessendorf-Wortman - Ennis Britton Co., L.P.A.

Shareholder

Phone: (513) 421-2540
Fax: (513) 562-4986
Email: ewwortman@ennisbritton.com
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Ms. Wessendorf-Wortman is a shareholder with the firm. She advises clients on a variety of educational law matters including labor and employment issues, student discipline and rights, special education, relationships with school resource officers, serving transgender students, employee misconduct and investigations, and general school law practice. She is also a member of the firm’s Special Education and Workers’ Compensation Practice Teams. Ms. Wessendorf-Wortman has served as a lead negotiator in bargaining and defended boards of education in arbitration, special education mediation, and due process hearings. She has represented school boards before a variety of federal and state administrative agencies, including the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, the State Employment Relations Board, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. Ms. Wessendorf-Wortman is a frequent presenter at professional conferences and at administrator and staff in-service trainings.

Recent Presentations and Published Works

December 14, 2017: Special Education Progress Monitoring and Disciplining Students with Disabilities, Warren County ESC
November 14, 2017: Ethics for Teachers, Warren County ESC
November 13, 2017: Board Meetings: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Ohio School Boards Association (OSBA) Capital Conference
October 2017: Ennis Britton’s Special Education Symposium
October 4, 2017: Fall Workshop, Northwest Ohio Association of School Business Officials (NWOASBO)
September 19, 2017: Legal Update, Southern Ohio ESC
September 8, 2017: Staff Discipline and Licensure, Southwest Ohio Personnel Administrators
August 10, 2017: House Bill Summary and Update, Trumbull County ESC
August 10, 2017: Serving Transgender Students, Trumbull County ESC
August 3, 2017: Legal Update, Southern Ohio ESC
May 8, 2017: Transgender Students and EMIS, Ohio Association of EMIS Professionals
April 4, 2017: A Legal Perspective on Cyberliability, Hamilton Clermont Cooperative Association
March 28, 2017: Supreme Court Decisions in Special Education, Ennis Britton Webinar
March 23, 2017: School Resource Officer Legal Update, Southwest Ohio School Resource Officers Association (OSROA)
March 16, 2017: Legal Update, Buckeye Association of School Administrators (BASA) School Facilities and Safety Conference
January 26, 2017: Ethics for Treasurers, Ohio Valley and Miami Valley Joint Meeting, OASBO
January 26, 2017: School Employee Leave and Benefits Update, Ennis Britton (EB) Administrator’s Academy Seminar Series
November 15, 2016: Ethics for Teachers, Warren County Educational Service Center
November 14, 2016: Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students in Schools, OSBA
October 21, 2016: Human Resources Administrative Assistants, Ohio Association of School Personnel Administrators (OASPA)
September 28, 2016: Fall Workshop, NWOASBO
September 13, 2016: Legal Update, Southern Ohio Educational Service Center
August 25, 2016: Updates on Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students in Schools, EB Webinar
June 24, 2016: Tackling Technology in High School Athletics, OSBA Sports Law Workshop
April 7, 2016: Picking Your Battles: Decision Points That Make or Break IEP Teams, EB Administrator’s Academy Seminar Series
February 25, 2016: Public Relations, Ashland University Next Gen Seminar Series
February 19, 2016: Ohio Special Education Law, National Business Institute
October 22, 2015: Title VI, Dealing with Complaints Centering on Race, Color and National Origin Discrimination
August 26, 2015: Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students in Schools, EB Webinar
June 30, 2015: School Law Update, OSROA Conference
March 30, 2015: FMLA, OASPA Administrative Assistants Seminar
January 13, 2015: Ethics for Teachers, Warren County ESC
October 6, 2014: The Law and You, OASPA Administrative Assistants Seminar
August 4, 2014: Legal Update, Clermont–Brown Regional Network Team of School Administrators
August 1, 2014: Tuition Fraud: What You Can (and Can’t) Do, OSBA
June 23, 2014: School Law Update, OSROA Conference
June 13, 2014: Reasonable Accommodations or Undue Burden?, OCSBA Spring Seminar
June 12, 2014: 2013–2014 Education Law Year in Review, ERF Administrator’s Academy
May 22, 2014: Legal Issues in Special Education Compliance, ERF Special Education Workshop
March 19, 2014: Essentials of Human Resources: Representation and Leaves, OASBO
March 6, 2014: Special Education Legal Updates, ERF Administrator’s Academy
February 21, 2014: Affordable Care Act, OASPA/OAEE Spring Conference
December 11, 2013: Special Education Laws Made Simple, National Business Institute
November 11, 2013: Making Booster Groups Work for You, OSBA Capital Conference
August 1, 2013: Administrative Retreat for Treasurers, Northwest Ohio ESC
July 11, 2013: Legal Updates – Affordable Care Act, ERF Administrator’s Academy
June 25, 2013: School Law Update, OSROA Conference
May 23, 2013: Employment Contracts, Licensure and Other HR Hot Topics, Ohio Treasurers of Educational Service Center Association
2008: “Regulating the Credit Rating Agencies,” Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal, 3(1): 155

Bar Admissions

Ohio

Court Admissions

United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio
United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio

Professional & Civic Organizations/Activities

Ohio State Bar Association
Cincinnati Bar Association
Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, Miami University (Ohio) Chapter Advisor 2006-2014

Education