Maureen Casey, a Partner and Senior Trial Attorney in the firm's Albertson office, has over ten years experience defending school districts on Long Island in a variety of general liability matters including claims of negligent supervision of students in gym class, during recess and while participating in extracurricular sporting activities.  In defending school districts, she also handles premise liability claims involving trip and fall accidents.

The defense of assault cases are of particular interest to Maureen and she has handled a range of cases of this type including student fights, sexual assaults, and an AIDS phobia case involving a student cut with a lancet by another student during a blood typing exercise in a high school biology class.  She recently defended a school district in a case where the plaintiff claimed to have contracted herpes during varsity wrestling practice.

In 1997, she authored School District Liability for Assaults on Students for the Spring edition of the Defendant.