Less than a week after an East Ramapo school district attorney’s profanity-laced outburst went viral, the school board decided Monday night to split from his controversial law firm and transition to a new one.
The board, meeting at district headquarters Monday, made the move in response to the outburst from Christopher Kirby, an attorney with Minerva & D’Agostino of Long Island, who was recorded on video yelling obscenities at a group of parents and threatening to fight one.
The firm will handle the incident internally and remove Kirby from any future work with the district, board President Yehuda Weissmandl told a meeting room packed with parents and students.
“We disassociate ourselves with his actions and his words,” Weissmandl said, adding that the firm apologized for Kirby’s expletive-filled outburst at parents last week.
“We need to learn a lesson from what happened last week,” he added. “We need to make clear to ourselves and to our community that we will do everything we can to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.”
His announcement drew cheers as well as boos from the crowd, with many parents saying that the firm should have been fired immediately after the incident.
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This article is extremely unclear. First it states that the firm was fired. Then it says that the attorney in question will be removed from any future work with the district. Huh? If the firm is fired then what future work with the district will it have?
Kirby is no longer listed on the law firm’s website.
#1 An article of news does not have to be analized like, l’havdil, one of the rishonim
#1, I believe that a) the school board asked the lawyer not to work on their account anymore, and then, because of that, b) the firm decided to resign. Under the circumstances, I think both parties did the right thing.
Don’t know what is so hard to understand. The first sentence says that they will TRANSITION to a new firm. This does not happen in one fell swoop. However Kirby will immediately cease his involvement.