Education Law

Areas of Service

We provide comprehensive general and special counsel representation to university, community college, school district and other private education clients. Our full range of service offerings includes employment law and labor relations and all related trial and appellate litigation, and all administrative agency work.

The knowledge and experience of the attorneys in the group, combined with that of the attorneys throughout the firm, enables us to assist our education clients in
virtually every area of law affecting them. Our team approach in servicing our educational institutional clients is not only cost effective, but enables us to offer our clients a full spectrum of services.

Some of the many areas in which we have assisted our clients in the education sector include:

• bullying hearings;
• residency disputes;
• bidding questions;
• drafting specifications;
• seniority questions;
• tenure questions;
• non-renewals;
• increment withholdings;
• special education;
• contracts;
• teacher certification;
• first amendment rights of students, parents and staff;
• construction issues;
• bonding;
• land use;
• election issues;
• disciplinary matters;
• workers’ compensation matters; and
• general public agency issues.