Lamb McErlane PC attorneys have provided legal advice to institutions of education on a wide array of matters. The firm represents numerous public school districts, charter schools, private schools, colleges and universities.
Education Law
Our attorneys are dedicated to the legal needs of schools, children, professional educators and families in Pennsylvania and have provided legal assistance in areas such as:
- Special needs advocacy
- Special education law
- School discipline and truancy
- Administrative or employee termination proceedings
Higher Education
For decades, our attorneys have provided sound legal advice to institutions of higher education on a wide array of matters involving:
- Policy development
- Regulatory compliance, including Title IX, the Clery Act and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- Employee medical leave and disability
- Campus security
- Intellectual property: copyright, patents, authorship issues and plagiarism
- Employee and student handbooks
- Health and safety
- Retaliation
- Discrimination and harassment
- Contractual disputes
- Real estate acquisitions and tax exemption
- Disabilities, access and accommodations
- Wrongful discharge/termination
- Salary, promotion and tenure disputes
- Academic freedom and freedom of speech
- Disputes over grades, admissions, graduation, expulsion and suspension
- Charter School issues
- Violations of privacy
- Loss of scholarships and athletic eligibility
Education
The firm advises educational institutions in every aspect of their mission, including start-up, financing, employment, personnel, student’s rights and discipline, policy development, attendance issues, construction and public bidding issues and eminent domain proceedings. The scope of the firm’s representation also includes internal investigations, public meetings, Sunshine Act and Right-to-Know Act issues, tax assessment appeals, litigation, charter applications and charter renewals, general School Code obligations and implementation of federal grant funds.
