Anthony G. Scariano

Equity Partner

708.755.1900 ext. 231
312.565.3100 ext. 231

708.755.0000 fax
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Mr. Scariano has vast experience in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and has literally concluded several hundreds of agreements between teacher unions and boards of education. He has devoted considerable litigation time to court battles concerning student rights and responsibilities and the defense of sex discrimination and civil rights cases. He has experience handling complex litigation in federal and state courts and administrative agencies involving school employment matters, educational equity problems, civil rights and labor relations. Mr. Scariano has handled over 100 trials and 50 appeals involving these areas of law.

He is certified both as a labor arbitrator by the American Arbitration Association and as a tenured teacher hearing officer by the Illinois State Board of Education. Mr. Scariano is a regular program presenter at national conventions and state conventions at various school board and school administrator associations, including the National School Boards Association, the Illinois School Board Association, the National Organization on Legal Problems in Education, the Education Law Association, the American Association of School Administrators, the Association of School Business Officials, the Illinois Association of School Administrators, the Illinois Association of School Business Officials, and various subsidiaries of those organizations. He is the past national chairman of the National School Board Association’s Council of School Attorneys, a group of more than 3200 lawyers defending public school districts in the United States of America. Over his professional practice time, Mr. Scariano has advised school districts in employment matters in the states of Alaska, California, Illinois, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Colorado.

Educated in the public and private schools of the Chicagoland area, Mr. Scariano graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts with honors in 1968, thereafter attending Roosevelt University’s Master’s Program in American History. He received his Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, graduating magna cum laude. Mr. Scariano has taught grade school and high school in several Cook County suburbs and has taught at Northwestern University and Western Illinois University, National Louis University, Northern Illinois University and Lewis College.  He is currently a candidate for his Ph.D. in education leadership and policy studies at Loyola University Chicago, Department of Education.