Cormac Ashgrove
Partner, school discipline
Cormac takes the calls that can’t wait: suspensions, expulsions and the hearings in between.
Cormac came to education law from a public defender’s office, where he saw how often a school removal came before a court case. He joined Tsion to work on the school side, earlier, when there’s still time to change the outcome.
He handles the firm’s discipline cases: long suspensions, expulsion hearings, manifestation determination reviews and appeals of school board decisions.
Focus
- Suspension and expulsion hearings
- Manifestation determination reviews
- Appeals to the school board
Where Cormac is admitted, and where he studied
Bar admissions
Virginia
2012
Maryland
2015
Courts
All Virginia state courts
2012
All Maryland state courts
2015
Education
J.D., University of Richmond
2012
B.A., Sociology, James Madison University
2008
Languages
English
Spanish
Conversational
Working with Cormac
Cormac talks with the student before anyone else does, with a parent in the room. He’d rather hear the hard version first than in front of a hearing panel.
He keeps his phone on during the school day for families with a hearing that week.
Talk with Cormac about a hearing
Call or write to the office, and ask for Cormac by name.
A first call doesn’t make us your lawyers; a signed engagement letter does.