When an aspiring teacher was arrested in West Chester for underage drinking and public drunkenness, she was exposed to a license suspension and a stigma that could end her teaching career before it began.

Attorney Skinner didn’t want a single incident to limit her career path and negotiated to have the charges dismissed and later completely expunged. As a result, future employers will not see the charge on her record, and she could easily put this behind her.

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Michael J. Skinner, the founder of Skinner Law Firm LLC, is a former prosecutor with the Chester County District Attorney’s Office.

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