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FREDERICK L. DORSEY VCARD Kainen, Escalera & McHale, P.C. 21 Oak Street Hartford, CT 06106 Telephone: (860) 493-0870 Facsimile: (860) 493-0871 E-mail: fdorsey@kemlaw.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Mr. Dorsey is involved in a wide variety of general and special education, labor relations and employment issues including due process hearings, planning and placement terms, contract negotiations and administration, unfair labor practice charges, union representation elections and employment discrimination matters in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Dorsey focuses his practice in the area of education law, representing boards of education in special education, student expulsion, transportation and residency hearings in addition to conventional labor relations and employment litigation matters.

EDUCATION:

Coast Guard Academy and Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, B.A., cum laude, 1976
University of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, M.B.A. 1978
Western New England College School of Law, Springfield, Massachusetts, J.D., 1984

BAR ADMISSIONS:

Connecticut, 1984, United States District Court, District of Connecticut, 1985, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section, Connecticut Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section, Committee on State and Local Government Bargaining Employment Law, American Arbitration Association, Participant in the Labor Arbitration Advocacy Program, Past President, Connecticut School Attorneys Council and the National School Boards Association Council of Attorneys.

RECOGNITION:

Mr. Dorsey has been recognized by New York Magazine as one of their “New York Area Best Lawyers” in the area of special education law.