Lisa Arbogast

Lisa Arbogast is a member of the firm’s Real Estate section. She has over 25 years of diverse education and legal experience to assist schools and school boards in navigating the legal issues they regularly encounter. Her practice focuses on all areas of education law with special emphasis on disabilities-related issues, including the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Other areas of practice include federal and state statutory and regulatory compliance, school policy, employment matters, professional practices, legislative analysis and involvement with issues relevant to public and private schools, student behavior and bullying, healthcare in the school setting, and alternative dispute resolution.

 

Ms. Arbogast is an adjunct faculty member at Weber State University in special education law, a guest lecturer at the University of Utah, and is frequently asked to lecture on legal issues pertaining to students with disabilities at state and national levels.

Education

• Willamette University, JD, and Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2002
• University of Utah, MEd Administration, 1997
• Weber State University, BS, 1984

Experience

• Licensed Level III Professional Educator and Administrator
• Interpreting federal and state laws affecting the education of students with disabilities
• Developing state laws, regulations and policies affecting schools and students with disabilities
• Providing technical assistance and professional development to Utah’s public schools, parents, boards of education, legislature and other stakeholders striving to improve educational outcomes for all students
• Supervised USOE’s federal and state compliance monitoring system
• Developed, organized and supervised Utah’s special education dispute resolution system including training and organizing facilitators, mediators, and due process hearing officers to assist with dispute resolution
• Practiced employment, health care, professional practices and general law until joining the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) in 2005
• Special Education State and Federal Compliance officer for the past nine years
• USOE’s chief complaint investigator for special education

• Utah

• Utah State Bar: Women Lawyers, Education, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Real Estate Employment Sections

• Board of Directors, Mission Health Services
• Board of Directors, St. Joseph School
• St. Joseph’s School Aquinis Institute, Committee Member
• United States Pony Club
• Jr. League of Utah, Sustaining Member
• Ogden Nature Center
• Ogden Valley Community Foundation