3 Summit Park Drive, Suite 400 Cleveland, OH 44131
Phone:(216) 503-5055 Fax:(216) 503-5065

David Hirt advises boards and their administrators in all areas of education law, including special education law, student enrollment and tuition issues, student discipline, labor and employment law, and the appropriation of real property. He represents the interests of boards of education at meetings with parents and school personnel, at arbitrations, in administrative hearings, and in court. In addition, he offers in-service training to district personnel in special education law, student discipline, and tuition and enrollment issues, including the enrollment of foreign students. David is a former member of the City of Kent, Ohio, Board of Zoning Appeals.

• Bar Admissions and Memberships
• Admitted to practice law in Ohio, the U.S. District Courts for both the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Portage County Bar Association, and the Ohio School Boards Association’s Ohio Council of School Board Attorneys
• Member and past chairman of the Portage County Bar Association’s certified grievance committee

• Education
• Received his undergraduate degree in geological science from Kent State University (B.S., 1986)
• Earned a master’s degree in geological science at Indiana University at Bloomington (M.S., 1988)
• Graduated from The Maurer School of Law at Indiana University Bloomington (J.D., 1994) after spending a year as a visiting student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio