LinkOctober 2007: "Mary Jo McGrath, attorney at law, Founder and President of McGrath Systems, Inc., graduated magna cum laude in 1974 from the University of California Los Angeles, and from Loyola University School of Law cum laude in 1977. She has been a practicing attorney for nearly 30 years, specializing in employee performance issues and legal mandates in the school and workplace.
In 1989, after serving as a partner in one of California's most prestigious law firms, she founded her own law office specializing in education and personnel law. Ms. McGrath's unique practice involves cases dealing with termination, suspension, and layoffs, as well as labor relation matters such as negotiations, arbitrations, unfair practice proceedings and employment discrimination issues, with an emphasis on sexual harassment and educator sexual abuse.
Ms. McGrath is author of School Bullying: Tools for Avoiding Harm and Liability (Corwin Press, 2007). Her training company, McGrath Training Systems, also produces the highly acclaimed educational video series for schools Student Sexual Harassment and Abuse: Minimize the Risk and The Early Faces of Violence: From Schoolyard Bullying and Ridicule to Sexual Harassment. McGrath Training has delivered workshops on topics ranging from sexual harassment and abuse awareness and investigation to employee supervision evaluation and leadership to more than 250,000 school administrators, teachers, staff, students, parents and community members.
Ms. McGrath is acknowledged as an international expert in sexual harassment and child sexual abuse as well as employee performance, quality and discipline law. She served an expert consultant to the office of the California Governor on teacher tenure reform and has been the featured legal expert on CBS' Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and 48 Hours programs on the issue of sexual harassment and abuse and on ABC's 20/20 on the issue of teacher quality and performance. She has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Redbook, Reader's Digest, Seventeen and several nationally circulated professional journals. Ms. McGrath served as Chair of the US Department of Education Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools Expert Panel from 2000 to 2002. "
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October 2007: "'...
I think every single school district in the nation has at least one perpetrator. At least one,' says Mary Jo McGrath, a California lawyer who has spent 30 years investigating misconduct in schools....They can't see what's in front of their face. Not unlike a kid in an alcoholic family, who'll say, 'My family is great,' says McGrath, the California lawyer and investigator who now trains school systems how to recognize what she calls the 'red flags' of misconduct."
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