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Practice Areas
Comprehensive legal counsel designed to help mission-driven organizations navigate governance, compliance, employment, philanthropy, and institutional risk with confidence.
Outside General Counsel
Strategic partnership, embedded in your mission.
Provide external legal expertise and strategic thought partnership on an ongoing basis.
Sound governance, built to last.
Corporate Governance
Advise clients on fiduciary duties and compliance with corporate formalities and applicable law to mitigate risk and ensure accountability. Provide trainings. Draft Board committee charters, resolutions, and memoranda.
Higher Education
Deep institutional knowledge, applied with judgment.
Experienced higher education attorney, counseling institutions on faculty matters and the regulatory and compliance issues unique to academia.
Employment & Benefits
Practical guidance for the people who power your mission.
Employment law compliance including contracts, severance agreements, benefits and compensation, handbooks, workplace investigations, and training programs for supervisors.
Philanthropy and Grantmaking
Honoring donor intent, safeguarding impact.
Counsel clients on private donor (foundation or individual) gifts, modifying gift restrictions including cy pres actions, and grantmaking.
Regulatory and
Nonprofit Compliance
Staying ahead of the rules that govern mission-driven work.
Adept at counseling on emerging federal, state, or local regulations affecting higher education and mission-driven organizations.
Investigations
Independent, rigorous, and fair — when the stakes are highest.
Conduct independent investigations into civil rights matters and provide programmatic or scholarship review to determine compliance with Title IX, Title VI, and other applicable law.
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