Hiring the best candidate is the ultimate goal of the hiring process. A well-devised hiring process provides an opportunity for a school to learn whether the candidate is the right fit for the school, and for the candidate to evaluate whether the school is the right fit for the candidate. Schools must also keep in mind that various federal and state employment laws impact the hiring process. This webinar with cover best practices and provide guidelines, samples, and checklists intended to help schools understand, develop, and adopt policies and procedures that support a legally compliant and effective hiring process. Linda Johnson is also the author of the newly published NAIS Legal Advisory on the NAIS Independent School Guide to Hiring.
About Linda Johnson
Director and Co-chair of the Education Law Group
McLane Law Firm
Linda serves as Co-Chair of McLane’s Education Law Group and focuses her practice on understanding and serving the needs of independent and boarding schools. She serves as outside legal counsel to many of the country’s top independent and boarding schools including the largest independent academy in the United States. She also advises schools nationally and internationally on all aspects of legal issues, risk management and crisis response, working closely with heads of school, deans, financial officers, trustees, health providers and others. She is especially known for her safe school training programs to school administrators, faculty, staff and students. Linda is recognized as a national authority on student and campus safety issues, risk management, boundary awareness, crisis response, employment law and independent school law issues. In 2014, Linda was one of three attorneys nationwide appointed to the Legal Advisory Board of The Association of Boarding Schools, (“TABS”) and Campus Outreach Services (“COS”) to assist the organizations in launching a program focused on independent schools and the law.
Linda can be reached at (603) 628-1267 or linda.johnson@mclane.com.