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.