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e-mail:
wsoukas@nakblaw.com
William C. Soukas, a partner of the
firm and the Department Manager of the firm’s Education Law
practice, represents school boards and administrators in all
areas of education law, with an emphasis in public sector labor
law, student rights, employee performance and discipline, tenure
laws, interlocal shared services agreements, bidding law and
procedure, and board policy.
Mr. Soukas regularly appears before the Commissioner of
Education, State Board of Education, Public Employment Relations
Commission, Government Records Commission, Division on Civil
Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as the
State and Federal courts. He has also represented school
officials before the School Ethics Commission and in forfeiture
proceedings before the State Board of Examiners and the Teachers
Pension and Annuity Fund.
Mr. Soukas serves as labor counsel to school boards,
municipalities, and public housing authorities, providing
counsel and representation in sexual harassment, discrimination,
and hostile work environment issues, the reasonable
accommodation process, employee termination, reductions in force
and seniority matters, as well as civil service issues. He has
participated in collective negotiations on behalf of the
interests of management and regularly represents the interests
of management in impasse proceedings.
Mr. Soukas represents municipal zoning boards as well as
applicants before such boards in development applications and in
prerogative writ litigation. Mr. Soukas also represents design
professionals, construction managers, and contractors in
connection with contract negotiation, formation, and
administration, and in commercial and construction litigation
involving breach of contract, delay claims, and related issues.
Mr. Soukas attended Boston College, Wallace E. Carroll School of
Management (B.S. 1991, cum laude) and Seton Hall University
School of Law (J.D. 1994). He is licensed to practice before the
New Jersey and New York State courts, the New Jersey Federal
District Court, the Southern and Eastern Federal District Courts
of New York, and the United States Third Circuit Court of
Appeals.
Mr. Soukas is also an active member of the New Jersey State Bar
Association, Labor and Employment Section, New York State Bar
Association, Bergen County Bar Association, Hellenic Bar
Association, and as past District Trustee of the New Jersey
Association of School Attorneys.
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