Joshua M. Salsburey

PARTNER

jsalsburey@sturgillturner.com

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Josh has established a successful education and employment practice, both as in-house counsel and as a litigation defense attorney.  He represents and advises companies, boards, municipalities, state agencies, school districts, colleges and universities in both regulatory and employment matters, including discipline, employee policies, the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Civil Rights Act (Title VII) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Josh has served as general counsel to the Kentucky Board of Emergency Services, as well as general counsel to the Madison County Board of Education.

Josh has helped to establish initiatives that made on-site family medical practice clinics with ARNP-level care available to a school district’s students and staff. 

He has been an invited speaker at numerous education and municipal associations’ seminars and has written several articles on topics ranging from record keeping obligations, to cyber bullying in schools, to social media in the workplace.

DISTINCTIONS

• Law Clerk to the Hon. Roger L. Crittenden, Franklin Circuit Court (2001-02)
• Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services, General Counsel (2003-04)
• Madison County Board of Education (K-12), Legal Counsel (2005-10) 

Key Presentations:

• Stay Out of My Face(Book)! A School Attorney’s Guide to Social Networking in the Workplace, SBGA’s Winter Meeting (2011)
• Whose Tube is YouTube? Knowing When a School can Discipline Cyber-Bullying and Other Student Internet Misconduct, Kentucky School Board Association’s Annual Conference (2009)

Key Publications:

• Common Misunderstandings About Open Records and Open Meetings: Four Truths Every School Administrator Must Know, Kentucky School Leader: A Publication of the Kentucky Association of School Administrators (Winter 2008)
• What Does the Statute Say? (The ABC's--and U.S.C.'s and C.F.R.'s of Records Retention), National Association of College and University Attorneys’ 2008 Annual Conference (2008)
• Subduing the Subpoena: Suggestions for a More Manageable Approach, Inquiry & Analysis--A publication of the National School Boards Association's Council of School Attorneys (December 2007)
• Electronic Discovery: Facing the Cyber-Frontier, In Transit—The newsletter of the DRI Trucking Committee (Spring 2007)

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

• Fayette County Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Kentucky School Boards Association, Council of School Board Attorneys
• National School Boards Association, Council of School Attorneys
• National Association of College and University Attorneys