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John E. Freund, III, a founding member of KingSpry, is one of Pennsylvania's most experienced practitioners in education, employment, civil rights, and issues that affect local government and their insurers. He serves as chairman of the Education Law Practice Group and is a member of the Employment Law, Public Finance, Litigation, and Insurance Practice Groups.
Mr. Freund's background and experience in representing public entities, particularly education and matters affecting children, are substantial. He regularly represents public schools, private schools, and colleges on a wide range of legal concerns in state and federal courts, administrative agencies and special education due process matters. He is approved counsel for various insurance carriers writing public entity and education related coverages.
He is a past president of the Pennsylvania School Solicitors Association and the Saucon Valley School Board; served on the Pennsylvania's Attorney General's Task Force on School Violence; was a Pennsylvania Supreme Court-appointed Juvenile Master. He is a commissioner of the Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools and a member of the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
Mr. Freund has been counsel to various regional and national educational organizations, including the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the Council on International and TransRegional Accreditation; the National Study of School Evaluation; and the SAC's Council on Accreditation and School Improvement; and is approved counsel for the Pennsylvania Association of Elementary and Secondary School Principals.
Mr. Freund is a long-time member of the Board of Directors of Lehigh Mutual Insurance Company and serves as the company's corporate Secretary and General Counsel. He is a long-standing member of the Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies.
Mr. Freund lectures and writes frequently on education, public entity, employment, and insurance law topics. Mr. Freund is in the editor of the firm newsletter School Law Bullet , which educates professionals on current legal issues affecting educational entities. The Philadelphia Magazine in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 named Mr. Freund as one of Pennsylvania's Super Lawyers for educational and employment law.
Mr. Freund graduated cum laude from Princeton University and received his Juris Doctorate from Villanova University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review and winner of the Reimel Moot Court Finalist Award.
Mr. Freund is a member of the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Districts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Pennsylvania.
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