Paul C. Minney

Paul C. Minney, Firm Principal, has represented charter schools in a multitude of critical areas, since the inception of the Charter Schools Act in 1992. Paul has assisted over 300 charter schools in developing charter petitions, MOU’s, facility use agreements, corporate papers and many other vital charter school documents. His areas of practice also include policy development, governance, Prop. 39 and facilities, revocation, audit defense, dispute resolution, and litigation. He has successfully represented numerous charter schools before the courts and state agencies including the court cases of: Sequoia School District v. Aurora Charter School (2003), BASIS v. Sunol Glen School District (2004); Ridgecrest Charter School v. Sierra Sands School District (2005); CCSA v. San Diego City School District (2005); CCSA, Green Dot, PUC et al v. LAUSD (2008); and CSBA v. SBE and Aspire Public Schools (2008); New West Charter School v. Los Angeles Unified School District, Case No. BS 115979 (2008). (Writ of Mandate directing Los Angeles Unified School District to provide Proposition 39 facilities to New West Charter School); CSBA et al v. CDE and SBE (Proposition 39 Regulations) (2008) Case No. 34-2008-00016957 (Represented CCSA as intervenor). Paul graduated with a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and received his J.D. cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law.