About the Coordinating Editors
| Publication year | 2015 |
| Pages | 21 |
| Citation | Vol. 44 No. 10 Pg. 21 |
Special Issue: Education Law
About the Coordinating Editors
The CBA and The Colorado Lawyer Board and editorial staff recognize and thank Ben Echeverria, Jennifer Wunsch, and Jenna Zerylnick for their collaboration as coordinating editors of the October 2015 special issue on education law. They have selected seven articles that give lawyers a broad introduction to law that relates to various facets of primary, secondary, and higher education. The material in this issue will also be of interest to parents, teachers at all levels and future teachers, school administrators, and members of the community. Echeverria, Wunsch, and Zerylnick also participated as article authors. We thank them and all of the authors for contributing to this issue.
Ben Echeverria is an old lawyer—both in age and years of practice. Following his Dean's job in higher education, he enrolled in law school in 1968, because he felt that educational institutions need the guidance of legal counsel to complete their missions.
Echeverria has devoted more than half of his practice to education law. He has been in-house counsel with a major K-12 school district and later with a college and community college district. His legal work in education included the competitive bidding often elementary schools and a major high school campus. He maintained a legal action for inverse condemnation against a major international airport that was flying commercial aircraft over schools, thus depriving the schools of valuable instructional time. As in-house counsel for a community college district, he bid a complete infrastructure replacement project and the design and construction of a major science building. He worked closely with campus security, providing legal support to enable the department to become accredited by the Peace Officer Standards and Training Council (POST) and recognized as a law enforcement agency.
When he read that The Colorado Lawyer was requesting proposals for a 2015 special issue, Echeverria recruited Colorado attorneys from the public and private sector who provide legal services to education and submitted a proposal for education law. When the proposal was accepted, he recruited Jennifer Wunsch and Jenna Zerylnick to collaborate as the issue's coordinating editors. Wunsch and Zerylnick have devoted hundreds of...
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