Mr. Block has extensive experience in all facets of education law and labor and employment law. He has represented our school district clients in collective bargaining, litigation in state and federal courts, in matters before the Commissioner of Education, Public Employment Relations Board, New York State Division of Human Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and in teacher disciplinary proceedings, Civil Service Law, Section 75 hearings, impartial handicapped hearings and appeals and tax certiorari proceedings. Mr. Block is currently the President of the New York State Association of School Attorneys. He is also actively involved in the Suffolk County Bar Association where he has served on the Board of Directors, as Chairperson of the Municipal Law and Newly Admitted Attorneys Committees, Officer of the Suffolk Academy of Law and Co-Chair of the Education Law Committee. Mr. Block has served as an adjunct professor at SUNY at Old Westbury where he taught collective bargaining and labor relations. Mr. Block has been named a Super Lawyer in the New York-Metro Area in Labor and Employment Law. He is admitted to practice law in the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Military Court of Appeals, the United States District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and all the Courts of the State of New York.