Areas of Practice: Education

Paul T. O'Neill is an education attorney, professor and author with extensive experience guiding education organizations through challenges and growth. He is the author of The No Child Left Behind Compliance Manual (LRP Publications, now in its second edition,) and The Charter School Law Deskbook 2007 (to be issued annually by Lexis Nexis Publications) as well as numerous scholarly and professional articles. For the last six years he has served on the adjunct faculty of Columbia University's Teachers College, where he teaches education law and policy courses, including Special Education Law & Policy, and Designing Charter Schools. Mr. O'Neill spent several years as Senior Vice President, Chief Regulatory Officer and head education attorney for Edison Schools, the national school management and services organization. He now serves as a Senior Fellow in Edison's Learning Institute, where focuses on scholarship and engagement with core education reform issues. Several years ago, he led Edison's efforts to become engaged in the post-Katrina revitalization of public schooling in New Orleans, and oversaw the opening of a new school there. Previously, Mr. O'Neill was in private practice at Brustein & Manasevit, the boutique national education law firm. Prior to that, he was General Counsel of the Charter Schools Institute of SUNY, one of the nation's leading charter school authorizing offices. He is a former Associate Director of the Newgrange School and Educational Outreach center in New Jersey, which serves individuals with learning disabilities, and a former litigator with the New York offices of both Dewey Ballantine LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.