Higher Education

The Firm’s Higher Education Law practice group handles a wide range of legal matters involving public and private universities and colleges. The Firm maintains a nationwide Higher Education Law practice and regularly counsels and/or consults with university administrators, professors and graduate students with regard to all aspects of their relationships with institutes of higher education.

The Firm has experience addressing the wide range of legal issues faced by post-secondary institutions and their employees and students including, but not limited to, those relating to:

  • Tenure challenges

  • Promotion denials

  • Training, Best Practices, and Contract Review

  • Discrimination claims

  • Corporate governance

  • Whistleblower claims

  • Intellectual property and technology transfer

  • Research Misconduct claims

  • Challenges to student conduct sanctions and expulsions

  • Student sexual assaults and related Title IX issues

  • Alcohol policies and consumption on campus

  • First Amendment freedoms of students and student groups

  • Academic Freedom matters.