Adele Kimmel

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, March 29, 2017, photo, Adele Kimmel, senior attorney with the law firm Public Justice and head of its anti-bullying campaign, speaks during an interview at their national headquarters in Washington. Kimmel, a senior litigator who specializes in student abuse cases for the Washington, D.C., nonprofit Public Justice, said any family would have to overcome a variety of obstacles in filing lawsuits under state law. “They include whether you can even sue a school district, what the liability standard is, how high a hurdle it is, whether you can sue school officials and if so, for what types of decisions,” she said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)