Peter K. Fagen

Providing outstanding counsel to school districts, superintendents, and boards, Peter Fagen guides clients in district leadership and governance, labor relations, mediations, education technology, artificial intelligence, data privacy concerns and elections and voting rights issues. He also performs fact-finding inquiries in advance of strikes and advises on personnel and student problems, business matters, and redevelopment projects.

When clients must grapple with tense personality conflicts, problems with the job performance of board leaders, deadlocked negotiations, and other similarly fraught circumstances, they put their confidence in Peter and his proclivity for problem-solving. Adept at diffusing the emotions of people who are unhappy with each other, he diplomatically guides them to find common ground and start to work together. This helps them steer their organizations in positive directions. He also applies his knowledge and legal skills to school district elections and voting rights issues, as well as education technology, artificial intelligence and related data privacy matters.

Peter combines his significant leadership, business, and administrative skills to provide efficient and effective education legal counsel. As chair of the firm’s Next Level Client Services Group, he conducts workshops on internal board relations, board-superintendent relations, goal setting, and leadership for school district administrators and board members. Districts regard him as a trusted advisor and rely upon his decades of experience and highly informed guidance.

Highly regarded across the country for his education law prowess, Peter is a frequent and sought after speaker at education and legal conferences and seminars and helps lead many prominent school administrative associations and organizations. A strong believer that the growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership, he is thankful for a career working with educational champions as they shape the young people who will in turn shape the future.