• Breadth and limitations of taxing authority

• Civil rights, including claims before the Missouri Commission on Human Rights and EEOC

• Collective bargaining for school, fire, and public transportation employees

• Constitutional law, federal and state

• Limitations on the right of public employees to strike

• Constitutional matters involving free speech, search and seizure, and due process (First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments)

• Conduct of open public meetings

• Contract interpretation and enforcement

• Discrimination claims (race, gender, age, disability, etc.)

• Duties and responsibilities of public disclosure

• Election law issues, including:

• Qualifications and rights of candidates

• Public financing of elections

• Constitutional requirements for passage of general obligation bonds and operating tax levies

• Employee discipline

• Employee relations

• Federal regulatory matters

• Financing

• Freedom of association

• Freedom of religion

• Gender, race, and age-based discrimination under Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act

• Injunctions

• Missouri open meetings and records law

• Non-resident tuition reimbursement

• Premises liability

• Product liability

• Public employers' rights to regulate affairs

• Public financing of elections

• Public meetings (Sunshine Law)

• Public records (Sunshine Law)

• Responsibility and limitation of expenditures of public funds in educational campaigns for bond elections

• Right to vote

• Rights and limitations of public employees to form and join labor organizations, to collectively bargain and to strike

• School finance

• Sovereign immunity

• Statutory interpretation and construction

• Uses for sales tax funds

• Voting Rights Act

• Zoning requirements

• Zoning and land use rights