Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq., is EdLaw Interactive’s founder and Executive Director.  A nationally-recognized speaker on a wide variety of school law topics, Atty. Gilsbach has dedicated her career to ensuring that schools have all of the resources that they need to comply with the wide variety of federal and state laws to which they are subject.  Her vast knowledge of school law as well as her informative (and entertaining!) speaking style make her a highly sought-after speaker schools and education-related organizations.   Her approach is practical and often hands-on, and she uses a multi-modal approach in her school law trainings.  Atty. Gilsbach has been a practicing school law attorney for the past 20 years, where she has exclusively represented schools of all types, including public school districts, public charter schools, parochial schools, and private schools. Prior to entering private practice, Atty. Gilsbach worked for three years at the PA Department of Education’s Office of Chief Counsel, and, prior to that, she taught public high school English. Voted by her peers as a Rising Star Attorney in SuperLawyers and Philadelphia Magazines for 5 consecutive years, Atty. Gilsbach has served as President of the PA School Boards Association (PSBA) Solicitor’s Association and as a member of the Board of Directors of the National School Boards Association’s (NSBA) Council of School Attorneys (COSA). She has also authored three books and many school law articles.  She has been a frequent presenter and collaborator for many state and national organizations, including PA, NY, and IL state Departments of Education; the National Business Institute (NBI); the Pennsylvania Bar Institute; the PA, NY, and ND School Boards Associations; PSBA’s School Solicitor’s Association; NSBA; COSA; the PA Bar Institute; the PA Association of Student Assistance Professionals, and multiple school nursing associations across the country. She has provided trainings for hundreds of public, charter, and non-public schools throughout the U.S.

Atty. Gilsbach serves as the presenter for all EdLaw Interactive trainings.  In addition to providing in-house trainings and prepared trainings on dozens of school law topics, she is also able to provide custom trainings for schools seeking to provide school law instruction to their staff members on specific school law issues.  If you are interested in hosting a training at your school, please contact her by submitting an inquiry through our HOST A TRAINING feature.