The Ira Weiss Education Fund was established in 2023 by Ira’s colleagues at Weiss Burkardt Kramer LLC to celebrate and honor his 50 years of dedicated service in the field of education and municipal law. The fund will provide grants to organizations and programs that provide or support public elementary or secondary education. The fund may also award individual grants to public school students pursuing post-secondary opportunities relating to the law or legal studies. Ira’s partners and current firm owners, Jocelyn Kramer and Megan Turnbull, established the fund to recognize and continue his longstanding legacy of supporting public education.
ABOUT IRA WEISS
Ira Weiss is a nationally known public sector attorney with experience in municipal, education and tax law. He is the founder of the Law Offices of Ira Weiss and a partner with Weiss Burkardt Kramer LLC. Ira has served municipalities and school districts for half a century. He is a former Allegheny County Solicitor, long-time School District of Pittsburgh Solicitor, and solicitor and special counsel for municipalities and school districts across Pennsylvania. Ira has also been active in training professional educators for years as a former adjunct professor of Administrative and Policy Studies in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh.
Ira has been elected as a fellow in the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County. He has also been named a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer” each year from 2005 to the present in the fields of schools and education. Ira’s achievements have also been recognized with many awards including the Distinguished Achievement in Law Award from Tri-State Area School Study Council in 2012 and the President’s Award for Distinguished Career Achievement by the Pennsylvania School Boards Solicitors Association in 2008.