Partner, Kroger, Gardis & Regas, LLP
Séamus focuses his practice in education and public policy. He has the Martindale- Hubbell attorney rating of AV Preeminent for the highest level of professional excellence in law.
Séamus provides effective and efficient counsel, frequently advising clients on day-to-day issues and navigating clients through the Indiana Statehouse. While he often serves as general counsel, he tailors his services to best address client needs. He works with preferred service providers to offer advice as conflict counsel and internal investigations.
Séamus began his practice of law in 2006. In 2011, the Indianapolis Star featured Séamus as a “Rising Star” for his work as a lawyer, and the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Indiana Lawyer identified Séamus as an “Up & Coming Lawyer” for Indiana. Beginning in 2012, he has been recognized annually by the Super Lawyers publication as a Rising Star.
Séamus is a frequent presenter, writer and contributor for many organizations. He is active in the Indiana State Bar Association and the Indiana Bar Foundation (IBF) for which he provides counsel and has served on the governing boards for both organizations. He advised the Indiana Civic Education Task Force and received the IBF’s William G. Baker recognition for outstanding dedication to citizenship education, particularly the We the People civics education program. In addition, he helped start the State Bar’s Leadership Development Academy. He has served on the board of the national Council of School Attorneys (COSA) and continues to serve on COSA’s amicus committee. He is a founder and was the first chairman of the Indiana Council of School Attorneys (ICOSA).
Séamus attended the University of New Hampshire School of Law where he concurrently earned both a law degree and master’s degree in education law. He is an alumnus of Wabash College and is on the board of and serves as the Law Committee chairman of the Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men. While at Wabash, he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and Sphinx Club through which he reinstalled the College’s “Chapel Talk” speaker series. Séamus is on the board of OneZone Commerce and is chair of OneZone’s Advocacy Committee. He has served on the board for Janus Developmental Services. Prior to joining Kroger Gardis & Regas, he practiced law at Church, Church, Hittle & Antrim.
Séamus was born and raised in Indianapolis with his eight siblings. His wife, Erin, is a teacher focusing on literacy and special needs. He has three daughters (Lena, Nellie and Vera).
Vice President of Legal Affairs & Director of Legal Defense & Education Center, EdChoice
Leslie Hiner, Esq. is an advocate of educational freedom, a crusader fighting for the unencumbered opportunity of parents to decide how and where their children will be educated. She believes in the power of individuals to change the world, and believes personal liberty will be enhanced when our method of funding K–12 education is changed to empower parents and students before institutions.
As vice president of legal affairs at EdChoice, the nation’s leading educational choice organization, Leslie leads the EdChoice Legal Defense and Education Center for this nonpartisan, charitable nonprofit and engages with other national organizations to support school choice. She is a proven leader, advancing educational freedom and choice for all as a pathway to successful lives and a stronger society.
Hiner is an attorney with extensive state legislative and executive branch experience. In Indiana, she was the first woman chief of staff to the speaker of the house, counsel to the senate president pro tempore, and general counsel/elections deputy to the Secretary of State. She is also a former small business owner, and former litigator in private practice.
A founding board member of one of Indiana’s first charter schools, Leslie served as chairman of the board for the first several years, guiding the school’s growth from about 150 to over 1000 students. She was also directly involved in developing Indiana’s original charter school law, one of the best in the nation, and Indiana’s voucher law, the largest in the country to date.
Leslie is a member of the American Enterprise Institute Leadership Network, serves on the Schools That Can National Advisory Council, and is a Policy Advisor for The Heartland Institute. Leslie is a long-time member of the Federalist Society and a Lugar Series Excellence in Public Service alumna.
Hiner travels the country speaking on educational issues and testifying at public hearings. Recent engagements include the American Enterprise Institute With all deliberate speed: Brown v. Board of Education II 60 years later; Center for Urban Renewal and Education National Policy Summit, “Changing Policy to Change Lives”; National Conference of State Legislatures Summit debate, School Vouchers and Education Savings Accounts: Are They Constitutional; Network of Enlightened Women National Conference, Three Things You Need To Know About Education Policy; International Conference on School Choice and Reform, The Constitutionality of Educational Choice; 100 Black Men of Greater Dallas/Fort Worth, Project Soar’s Mobilizing the Village; Louisville Federalist Society Lawyers’ Chapter, Is School Choice Good Public Policy; American Conservative Union CPAC 2017.
She’s been cited in several publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, Forbes, US News & World Report, The Hill, Real Clear Policy, Federalist Society DocketWatch, National Review, The Federalist, Zman Magazine, Watchdog, and has appeared on EWTN News Nightly, Wall Street Journal Video Opinion Journal podcasts, David Webb Show on Sirius/XM, ChoiceMediaTV, The Heartland Institute podcasts and school choice events, The Morning Blaze, Issues in Education and many state level broadcasts.
A native of Ohio, she earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Akron School of Law, her Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Wooster, and attended Rostad Teachers College as an exchange student in Sweden where she was a student teacher in grades 2 and 3. She and her husband reside in Indianapolis, and have two grown children.
Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
Judge Pitlyk received her law degree from Yale Law School, after earning her undergraduate degree from Boston College and master’s degrees from Georgetown University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar. Immediately before taking the bench, Judge Pitlyk served as Special Counsel for the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm. Before TMS, she spent several years at a small civil litigation boutique in St. Louis, MO, after starting her career at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. From 2010 to 2011, she clerked for the Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh, then a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judge Pitlyk was sworn in as a District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri on December 6, 2019.
President, Center for American Rights
Daniel Suhr serves as president of the Center for American Rights, where he spends every day on the front lines of the fight to preserve our rights and liberties. The Center's mission is to advance free speech, free enterprise, and parental freedom in education through strategic, precedent-setting litigation.
Daniel formerly worked as policy director for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, as chief of staff for Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and as a law clerk for Judge Diane Sykes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He holds a B.A. and J.D. from Marquette University, and master’s degrees from Georgetown and the University of Missouri.
Partner, Kroger, Gardis & Regas, LLP
Séamus focuses his practice in education and public policy. He has the Martindale- Hubbell attorney rating of AV Preeminent for the highest level of professional excellence in law.
Séamus provides effective and efficient counsel, frequently advising clients on day-to-day issues and navigating clients through the Indiana Statehouse. While he often serves as general counsel, he tailors his services to best address client needs. He works with preferred service providers to offer advice as conflict counsel and internal investigations.
Séamus began his practice of law in 2006. In 2011, the Indianapolis Star featured Séamus as a “Rising Star” for his work as a lawyer, and the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Indiana Lawyer identified Séamus as an “Up & Coming Lawyer” for Indiana. Beginning in 2012, he has been recognized annually by the Super Lawyers publication as a Rising Star.
Séamus is a frequent presenter, writer and contributor for many organizations. He is active in the Indiana State Bar Association and the Indiana Bar Foundation (IBF) for which he provides counsel and has served on the governing boards for both organizations. He advised the Indiana Civic Education Task Force and received the IBF’s William G. Baker recognition for outstanding dedication to citizenship education, particularly the We the People civics education program. In addition, he helped start the State Bar’s Leadership Development Academy. He has served on the board of the national Council of School Attorneys (COSA) and continues to serve on COSA’s amicus committee. He is a founder and was the first chairman of the Indiana Council of School Attorneys (ICOSA).
Séamus attended the University of New Hampshire School of Law where he concurrently earned both a law degree and master’s degree in education law. He is an alumnus of Wabash College and is on the board of and serves as the Law Committee chairman of the Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men. While at Wabash, he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and Sphinx Club through which he reinstalled the College’s “Chapel Talk” speaker series. Séamus is on the board of OneZone Commerce and is chair of OneZone’s Advocacy Committee. He has served on the board for Janus Developmental Services. Prior to joining Kroger Gardis & Regas, he practiced law at Church, Church, Hittle & Antrim.
Séamus was born and raised in Indianapolis with his eight siblings. His wife, Erin, is a teacher focusing on literacy and special needs. He has three daughters (Lena, Nellie and Vera).
Vice President of Legal Affairs & Director of Legal Defense & Education Center, EdChoice
Leslie Hiner, Esq. is an advocate of educational freedom, a crusader fighting for the unencumbered opportunity of parents to decide how and where their children will be educated. She believes in the power of individuals to change the world, and believes personal liberty will be enhanced when our method of funding K–12 education is changed to empower parents and students before institutions.
As vice president of legal affairs at EdChoice, the nation’s leading educational choice organization, Leslie leads the EdChoice Legal Defense and Education Center for this nonpartisan, charitable nonprofit and engages with other national organizations to support school choice. She is a proven leader, advancing educational freedom and choice for all as a pathway to successful lives and a stronger society.
Hiner is an attorney with extensive state legislative and executive branch experience. In Indiana, she was the first woman chief of staff to the speaker of the house, counsel to the senate president pro tempore, and general counsel/elections deputy to the Secretary of State. She is also a former small business owner, and former litigator in private practice.
A founding board member of one of Indiana’s first charter schools, Leslie served as chairman of the board for the first several years, guiding the school’s growth from about 150 to over 1000 students. She was also directly involved in developing Indiana’s original charter school law, one of the best in the nation, and Indiana’s voucher law, the largest in the country to date.
Leslie is a member of the American Enterprise Institute Leadership Network, serves on the Schools That Can National Advisory Council, and is a Policy Advisor for The Heartland Institute. Leslie is a long-time member of the Federalist Society and a Lugar Series Excellence in Public Service alumna.
Hiner travels the country speaking on educational issues and testifying at public hearings. Recent engagements include the American Enterprise Institute With all deliberate speed: Brown v. Board of Education II 60 years later; Center for Urban Renewal and Education National Policy Summit, “Changing Policy to Change Lives”; National Conference of State Legislatures Summit debate, School Vouchers and Education Savings Accounts: Are They Constitutional; Network of Enlightened Women National Conference, Three Things You Need To Know About Education Policy; International Conference on School Choice and Reform, The Constitutionality of Educational Choice; 100 Black Men of Greater Dallas/Fort Worth, Project Soar’s Mobilizing the Village; Louisville Federalist Society Lawyers’ Chapter, Is School Choice Good Public Policy; American Conservative Union CPAC 2017.
She’s been cited in several publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, Forbes, US News & World Report, The Hill, Real Clear Policy, Federalist Society DocketWatch, National Review, The Federalist, Zman Magazine, Watchdog, and has appeared on EWTN News Nightly, Wall Street Journal Video Opinion Journal podcasts, David Webb Show on Sirius/XM, ChoiceMediaTV, The Heartland Institute podcasts and school choice events, The Morning Blaze, Issues in Education and many state level broadcasts.
A native of Ohio, she earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Akron School of Law, her Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Wooster, and attended Rostad Teachers College as an exchange student in Sweden where she was a student teacher in grades 2 and 3. She and her husband reside in Indianapolis, and have two grown children.
Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
Judge Pitlyk received her law degree from Yale Law School, after earning her undergraduate degree from Boston College and master’s degrees from Georgetown University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar. Immediately before taking the bench, Judge Pitlyk served as Special Counsel for the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm. Before TMS, she spent several years at a small civil litigation boutique in St. Louis, MO, after starting her career at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. From 2010 to 2011, she clerked for the Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh, then a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judge Pitlyk was sworn in as a District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri on December 6, 2019.
President, Center for American Rights
Daniel Suhr serves as president of the Center for American Rights, where he spends every day on the front lines of the fight to preserve our rights and liberties. The Center's mission is to advance free speech, free enterprise, and parental freedom in education through strategic, precedent-setting litigation.
Daniel formerly worked as policy director for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, as chief of staff for Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and as a law clerk for Judge Diane Sykes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He holds a B.A. and J.D. from Marquette University, and master’s degrees from Georgetown and the University of Missouri.
Staff Attorney, National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation
Glenn Taubman is a Staff Attorney for the National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation (1982 to the present). He was a Law Clerk for Senior Circuit Judge Warren L. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, Jacksonville, Florida, from 1981-82, and a Staff Attorney for the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, from 1980-81. His Bar Admissions include: Georgia, 1980; New York, 1981; U.S. Supreme Court, 1983; District of Columbia, 1985. He regularly appears before the National Labor Relations Board and various federal courts, representing individual employees only.
He is the author of "'Neutrality Agreements' and the Destruction of Employees' Section 7 Rights" (2005) and co-author of "Union Discipline and Employee Rights," a monograph published by the National Right to Work Foundation.
A partial listing of his reported cases includes: Lucas v. NLRB, 333 F.3d 927 (9th Cir. 2003);Penrod v. NLRB, 203 F.3d 41 (D.C. Cir. 2000);Production Workers v. NLRB, 161 F.3d 1047 (7th Cir. 1998);Food & Commercial Workers Local 951 v. Mulder, 31 F.3d 365 (6th Cir. 1994);NLRB v. Office Employees Local 2, 902 F.2d 1164 (4th Cir. 1990);Tierney v. City of Toledo, 917 F.2d 927 (6th Cir. 1990);Lowary v. Lexington Local Board of Education, 902 F.2d 422 (6th Cir. 1990);Lowary v. Lexington Local Board of Education, 854 F.2d 131 (6th Cir. 1988);Tierney v. City of Toledo, 824 F.2d 1497 (6th Cir. 1987);Masiello v. US Airways, Inc., 113 F. Supp. 2d 870 (W.D.N.C. 2000);Jordan v. City of Bucyrus, 739 F. Supp. 1124 (1990),further proceedings, 754 F. Supp. 554 (N.D. Ohio 1991);Dana Corp., 341 N.L.R.B. No. 150, 2004 WL 1329345 (June 7, 2004);California Saw & Knife Works, 320 N.L.R.B. 224 (1995),enforced, 133 F.3d 1012 (7th Cir. 1998).
Deputy General Counsel, Local 32 BJ, Service Employees International Union
Brent Garren is a Deputy General Counsel of SEIU Local 32 BJ, the 145,000 member property services local in New York and the eastern seaboard. He worked for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, then UNITE, UNITE HERE and Workers United prior to Local 32 BJ, including serving as General Counsel for UNITE HERE and later Workers United.
Mr. Garren’s career has focused on the National Labor Relations Act. He is an Editor-In-Chief of How to Take a Case Before the NLRB, the leading text on NLRB procedure. He is a member of and past union co-chair of the ABA’s subcommittee on Practice and Procedure under the NLRA, part of the Labor and Employment Law Section. He has spoken about and written on the NLRA, including on remedies, voluntary recognition and NLRB jurisdiction.
He has been involved in international labor solidarity activities, including representing U.S. labor to the International Labor Organization, dealing with protection of home workers and protection of contracted labor.
He was graduated by Wayne State School of Law, summa cum laude.
Partner, Kroger, Gardis & Regas, LLP
Séamus focuses his practice in education and public policy. He has the Martindale- Hubbell attorney rating of AV Preeminent for the highest level of professional excellence in law.
Séamus provides effective and efficient counsel, frequently advising clients on day-to-day issues and navigating clients through the Indiana Statehouse. While he often serves as general counsel, he tailors his services to best address client needs. He works with preferred service providers to offer advice as conflict counsel and internal investigations.
Séamus began his practice of law in 2006. In 2011, the Indianapolis Star featured Séamus as a “Rising Star” for his work as a lawyer, and the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Indiana Lawyer identified Séamus as an “Up & Coming Lawyer” for Indiana. Beginning in 2012, he has been recognized annually by the Super Lawyers publication as a Rising Star.
Séamus is a frequent presenter, writer and contributor for many organizations. He is active in the Indiana State Bar Association and the Indiana Bar Foundation (IBF) for which he provides counsel and has served on the governing boards for both organizations. He advised the Indiana Civic Education Task Force and received the IBF’s William G. Baker recognition for outstanding dedication to citizenship education, particularly the We the People civics education program. In addition, he helped start the State Bar’s Leadership Development Academy. He has served on the board of the national Council of School Attorneys (COSA) and continues to serve on COSA’s amicus committee. He is a founder and was the first chairman of the Indiana Council of School Attorneys (ICOSA).
Séamus attended the University of New Hampshire School of Law where he concurrently earned both a law degree and master’s degree in education law. He is an alumnus of Wabash College and is on the board of and serves as the Law Committee chairman of the Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men. While at Wabash, he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and Sphinx Club through which he reinstalled the College’s “Chapel Talk” speaker series. Séamus is on the board of OneZone Commerce and is chair of OneZone’s Advocacy Committee. He has served on the board for Janus Developmental Services. Prior to joining Kroger Gardis & Regas, he practiced law at Church, Church, Hittle & Antrim.
Séamus was born and raised in Indianapolis with his eight siblings. His wife, Erin, is a teacher focusing on literacy and special needs. He has three daughters (Lena, Nellie and Vera).
Vice President of Legal Affairs & Director of Legal Defense & Education Center, EdChoice
Leslie Hiner, Esq. is an advocate of educational freedom, a crusader fighting for the unencumbered opportunity of parents to decide how and where their children will be educated. She believes in the power of individuals to change the world, and believes personal liberty will be enhanced when our method of funding K–12 education is changed to empower parents and students before institutions.
As vice president of legal affairs at EdChoice, the nation’s leading educational choice organization, Leslie leads the EdChoice Legal Defense and Education Center for this nonpartisan, charitable nonprofit and engages with other national organizations to support school choice. She is a proven leader, advancing educational freedom and choice for all as a pathway to successful lives and a stronger society.
Hiner is an attorney with extensive state legislative and executive branch experience. In Indiana, she was the first woman chief of staff to the speaker of the house, counsel to the senate president pro tempore, and general counsel/elections deputy to the Secretary of State. She is also a former small business owner, and former litigator in private practice.
A founding board member of one of Indiana’s first charter schools, Leslie served as chairman of the board for the first several years, guiding the school’s growth from about 150 to over 1000 students. She was also directly involved in developing Indiana’s original charter school law, one of the best in the nation, and Indiana’s voucher law, the largest in the country to date.
Leslie is a member of the American Enterprise Institute Leadership Network, serves on the Schools That Can National Advisory Council, and is a Policy Advisor for The Heartland Institute. Leslie is a long-time member of the Federalist Society and a Lugar Series Excellence in Public Service alumna.
Hiner travels the country speaking on educational issues and testifying at public hearings. Recent engagements include the American Enterprise Institute With all deliberate speed: Brown v. Board of Education II 60 years later; Center for Urban Renewal and Education National Policy Summit, “Changing Policy to Change Lives”; National Conference of State Legislatures Summit debate, School Vouchers and Education Savings Accounts: Are They Constitutional; Network of Enlightened Women National Conference, Three Things You Need To Know About Education Policy; International Conference on School Choice and Reform, The Constitutionality of Educational Choice; 100 Black Men of Greater Dallas/Fort Worth, Project Soar’s Mobilizing the Village; Louisville Federalist Society Lawyers’ Chapter, Is School Choice Good Public Policy; American Conservative Union CPAC 2017.
She’s been cited in several publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, Forbes, US News & World Report, The Hill, Real Clear Policy, Federalist Society DocketWatch, National Review, The Federalist, Zman Magazine, Watchdog, and has appeared on EWTN News Nightly, Wall Street Journal Video Opinion Journal podcasts, David Webb Show on Sirius/XM, ChoiceMediaTV, The Heartland Institute podcasts and school choice events, The Morning Blaze, Issues in Education and many state level broadcasts.
A native of Ohio, she earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Akron School of Law, her Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Wooster, and attended Rostad Teachers College as an exchange student in Sweden where she was a student teacher in grades 2 and 3. She and her husband reside in Indianapolis, and have two grown children.
Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
Judge Pitlyk received her law degree from Yale Law School, after earning her undergraduate degree from Boston College and master’s degrees from Georgetown University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar. Immediately before taking the bench, Judge Pitlyk served as Special Counsel for the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm. Before TMS, she spent several years at a small civil litigation boutique in St. Louis, MO, after starting her career at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. From 2010 to 2011, she clerked for the Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh, then a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judge Pitlyk was sworn in as a District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri on December 6, 2019.
President, Center for American Rights
Daniel Suhr serves as president of the Center for American Rights, where he spends every day on the front lines of the fight to preserve our rights and liberties. The Center's mission is to advance free speech, free enterprise, and parental freedom in education through strategic, precedent-setting litigation.
Daniel formerly worked as policy director for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, as chief of staff for Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and as a law clerk for Judge Diane Sykes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He holds a B.A. and J.D. from Marquette University, and master’s degrees from Georgetown and the University of Missouri.
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