Amy Houck Elco is a partner in the firm’s Education Law Practice Group and is based primarily in the Atlantic City office. Amy serves as the lead attorney for numerous New Jersey school clients. In this role, she guides school board members and school officials through the many and varied aspects of education law that impact schools on a daily basis.

Amy was recently named to the New Jersey Super Lawyer’s Rising Star list in the area of school law. Amy recently authored an article for the New Jersey School Board Association’s Monthly Magazine School Leader entitled “It Didn’t Happen In School, But…Can We Discipline?” and previously co-authored an article entitled “Border Lines” regarding school residency issues.  In November 2014, Amy was chosen as a ‘Best of New Jersey School Board Workshop 2014’ speaker for her presentation “Can They Say That?: Board Member, Employee and Public Comment Under the Open Public Meetings Act.”

Amy is an Adjunct Professor, teaching school law, for the Graduate Program at Stockton University. She also is a faculty member for the Southern Regional Institute and Educational Technology Training Center at Stockton University. She teaches the school law leadership program, transgender rights, social media and harassment, intimidation and bullying seminars. Amy also teaches personnel and labor relations and negotiations for new business administrators for the New Jersey Association of School Business Officials program.