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07/01/2007
Emanuel C. Welch to Head the Firm's Education and Municipal Law Practice

Emanuel C. Welch of Sanchez Daniels & Hoffmann, LLP will run the Firm's Education and Municipal Law Practice. Emanuel Welch has served on the Proviso Township High Schools District 209 Board of Education since November 7, 2001, and he has been President of the Board since April 2003. He also serves as general legal counsel for Bellwood School District 88, Maywood School District 89 and special legal counsel for Community High School District 218. He has also served as legal counsel in Posen-Robbins School District 143 and ½., Hoover-Schrum School District 157, and Niles High School District 219. Welch also serves as litigation counsel in the Town of Cicero and the Village of Melrose Park.

He is a member of the Illinois Council of School Attorneys, and he was the lead attorney in the case of Roxanne Brown v. Bellwood School District 88 (November 2005) in which the Illinois Appellate Court ruled that local school boards have the right to declare vacancies and fill those vacancies. Welch has received the prestigious PLCCA Image Award (June 2006), and he has been recognized by the Village of Hillside (Jan. 2007) for his contributions to Human Rights issues. He also serves as assistant secretary to the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement Board.