Schwartz & Eichelbaum is dedicated to representing public school districts in areas such as personnel, student matters, governance, policy, special education, construction, and our experience with litigation is abundant. Districts that use our preventive law philosophy can generally avoid lawsuits. However, when litigation is imminent, our firm is as comfortable and confident before an administrative law judge at TEA as we are in the Courts.

Our firm has a strong litigation background and members have appeared successfully before every Federal District Court in Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. We have represented schools successfully in the State Courts from Municipal Courts through the Texas Supreme Court. We have many published opinions. Additionally, Dennis Eichelbaum has been successfully before both the United States and Texas Supreme Courts. One of the firm's most notable decision is Jett v. Dallas Independent School District, 491 U.S. 701 (1989), a benchmark win for public institutions.

We are seeing more civil rights lawsuits, particularly with students as plaintiffs. Schwartz & Eichelbaum has won major federal appellate cases that assist school districts in defending against liability: two of them, Leffall v. Dallas Independent School District, 28 F.3d 521 (5th Cir. 1994) and Johnson v. Dallas Independent School District, 38 F.3d 198 (5th Cir. 1994), are cited by other school law attorneys in almost every "deliberate indifference" case in the Texas federal courts today.