Reducing Liability From Complaints

Legal Brief

WITH STATE OFFICIALS leaving it to schools to resume in-person operations with masks and social distancing due to COVID-19, parents are divided, leading to complaints galore and boards of education asking their superintendents: “Should we open? Is it safe, and what is our liability?”

As legal counsel to more than a hundred school districts in Illinois, our firm has fielded the following question the most of any: “How do we do handle and reduce liability?”

Our answer: “Delicately, carefully and with caution, like your job depends on it, because it does.” The hard goal is to resolve issues while analyzing and minimizing risk and legal exposure.