August W. Steinhilber
August Steinhilber
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August (Gus) Steinhilber joined Carney, Kelehan, Bresler, Bennett and Scherr after retiring as General Counsel and Associate Executive Director of the National School Boards Association (NSBA).
At NSBA, Mr. Steinhilber was responsible for handling all of the association’s legal matters. His office had responsibility for the NSBA Council of School Attorneys, an organization of over 3,000 school attorneys who represent local school districts, and for providing legal assistance to local school districts nationwide. He was also responsible for publishing two legal newsletters and for representing public education interests before the US Supreme Court and the 13 circuits of the US Courts of Appeal. He has filed over 50 briefs amicus curiae before the US Supreme Court. Working with Lloyds of London, he set up a liability insurance program available to any public school district in the United States.
Before becoming general counsel for NSBA, Mr. Steinhilber was responsible for NSBA’s State Legislative Network, headed NSBA’s Office of Federal Relations and created the NSBA Federal Relations Network. Prior to joining NSBA, he was Deputy Assistant U.S. Commissioner of Education for Legislation in the federal government.
Mr. Steinhilber was also an advisor to the US Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks on copyright issues relating to education’s use of the National Information Infrastructure, and was the Northern Virginia Chapter representative to the Federal Bar Association. He is past chairman of the Educators’ Ad Hoc Committee on Copyright Law; past chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Tort Reform Association; past president of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Federal Bar Association; past chairman of the Berne Section of the American Bar Association Committee on Copyright, Trademark and Patents; past president of the National Organization on Legal Problems in Education (now the Education Law Association) and founder and past president of the Committee for Education Funding.
He has been a guest lecturer at a number of universities and was, until 1998, an adjunct professor at the School of Education of Virginia Polytechnical Institute. He has written and lectured extensively on issues of law and education. He has written articles on affirmative action and church/state relations. He also wrote about copyright, the Internet and the schools and has lectured on the impact that Brown v. The Board of Education has had over the past 50 years.
Practices
Education Law
Constitutional Law
Copyright Law
Bar Admissions
District of Columbia, 1963
Ohio, 1962
U.S. Supreme Court, 1966
Education
Georgetown University, JD, 1961
Case Western Reserve University, AB, 1956
Professional Associations
National School Board Association Council of School Attorneys
Publications
Numerous writings on a variety of law and education issues.