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Practice Profile
We have extensive experience representing colleges and universities, private secondary schools and public school systems. We provide counsel on the broad array of legal issues affecting institutions of higher education, including governance issues, institutional relationships with students, faculty, and staff, public finance, contractual relationships, and compliance with state and federal law. We serve as consultants to educational institutions addressing concerns and compliance in their campus communities. We have particular sensitivity to the institutional values of our education clients, and seek to reflect these values in addressing legal issues.
Our education law practice includes faculty and student relations, public finance, tax issues, campus and facilities planning, campus security, campus threat assessment, immigration, international programs, intellectual property, and litigation. The firm serves as select counsel in Vermont to United Educators Risk Retention Group, and is frequently retained by United Educators in conjunction with its insureds to defend educational institutions against administrative and legal claims. Lawyers in the firm cooperate with United Educators in presenting seminars and otherwise addressing risk management concerns. Our education attorneys are members of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), and use the services and networking that organization provides as a means of keeping current on issues affecting educational institutions.