Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Year Joined Organization: 1980

Lawyer Overview

Having served as an attorney advisor to the former United States Office of Education, and Chief of the Adult and Vocational Education Branch in the HEW Office of General Counsel / Education Division, Michael Brustein served on the transition team to establish the United States Education Department.  Following the opening of the new federal department in May 1980, he founded the firm with Leigh Manasevit in July 1980.

Over the past 25 years, Brustein & Manasevit have worked with all 50 states, many school districts, postsecondary institutions, and national education organizations on issues related to federal support of education and workforce development.  Over this period of time Michael Brustein has been recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on federal grants management, audit resolution, as well as workforce education and development issues.

Areas of Practice

• Administrative Hearings & Adjudication
• Administrative Investigations
• Administrative Rulemaking
• Age Discrimination
• Colleges & Universities
• Private Schools
• Public Schools
• Race Discrimination
• Regulatory Enforcement
• Religious Discrimination
• Sex Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment
• Sexual Harassment -- Employee
• Special Education
• Student Rights

West Practice Categories

Administrative Hearings & Adjudication, Administrative Investigations, Administrative Rulemaking, Regulatory Enforcement, Age Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Colleges & Universities, Private Schools, Public Schools, Special Education, Student Rights, Sexual Harassment -- Employee

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut, 1974
• District of Columbia, 1979
• New York, 1982
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 1976
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1978

Education

• University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, June, 1974
  J.D.
• New York University, New York, New York, June, 1971
  B.A.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
  Honors: Honors Scholar
  Honors: Pi Sigma Alpha
  Major: Political Science

Published Works

• The One-Stop Guide to the Final WIA Regulations, 2000
• The One-Stop Guide to the Perkins Act of 1998
• The NAPIC Guide to the Workforce Investment Act of 1998
• The Administrator's Guide to the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act of 1998
• The School-to-Work User's Guide: Understanding Federal Cost Principles and Avoiding Audit Liability, 1997
• The AVA Guide to the School-to-Work Opportunities Act, 1994
• The A VA Guide to Federal Funding for Tech Prep, 1992
• The AVA Audit Handbook: Avoiding Audit Liability Under the 1990 Perkins Act, Revised Edition, 1992

Address

3105 South Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007-4419

Phones

202-965-3652
800-914-8212 (Toll Free)

Faxes

202-965-8913

Emails

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Websites

http://www.bruman.com