Denise Lowell-Britt

Equity Partner

(480) 461-5333
dlb@udallshumway.com

30 West First Street
Mesa, Arizona 85201

Practice Areas

Denise Lowell-Britt has been practicing law at Udall, Shumway & Lyons since 1987 and has been a partner of the firm since 1993. Ms. Lowell-Britt is very pleased to devote her practice entirely to representing school districts, charter schools and other public educational institutions. She heads the firm’s education law practice group.

Education Law

Ms. Lowell-Britt provides daily advice and assistance to school districts and other public educational institutions. She represents and defends educational institutions in administrative and court proceedings. Ms. Lowell-Britt advises and represents school districts and charter schools in matters that include: student disciplinary hearings, personnel issues, student records, governing board liability and open meeting issues. She has also given numerous in-service workshops to district personnel on a wide range of topics of importance to the educational operations of the districts and is a regular speaker to state-wide conferences.

In November 2006, she was named a “Top Education Attorney” in Phoenix Magazine. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, she was selected by her peers as a “Best Lawyer in America” in the specialty of Education Law.

Ms. Lowell-Britt has been a regular presenter at State-wide conferences and conducts a great many in-service and training programs for school personnel on a variety of topics relating to education law.  She has also authored articles for National and State publications on a variety of topics of interest to educators. Most recently, an article she authored on Report Cards and Transcripts for Students With Disabilities was published in the “Attorney’s Corner” of NAU’s eJournal of Education Policy.

Ms. Lowell-Britt is a member of the National School Board Association, Arizona School Boards Association and Arizona Council of School Attorneys. She has also been an adjunct faculty member for Arizona State University, teaching graduate level Education Law classes for the College of Education, Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.  She has been on the steering committee for the Arizona School Administrators “Principal and the Law” conference for approximately 14 years.   She has also been a regular speaker at the annual law conferences sponsored by the Arizona School Boards Association and the Arizona Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE).  In March 2009, Ms. Lowell-Britt was presented with the Laura Ganoung Award, which is CASE’s highest award recognizing leadership in the area of special education.

Education

• J.D., Arizona State University, 1986
• B.A., Cornell University, 1980 (Cum Laude)

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

• Arizona Courts
• United States District Court
• District of Arizona

Professional & Bar Association Memberships

• State Bar of Arizona
• National School Boards Association
• Arizona School Boards Association
• Arizona Council of School Attorneys

Professional Associations and Community Involvement

• Save The Family Foundation of Arizona: President
• President of Neighborhood Association