Education

Our clients include educational institutions from preschool to colleges and universities and graduate schools, private and public schools, for-profit and not-for-profit. We also represent companies providing supplemental educational services and the Head Start programs of community action agencies. We provide the full range of labor and employment services to these clients, with recent activities including the following:

• Conducting collective bargaining negotiations for several state universities.
• Obtaining summary judgment in several federal race discrimination cases for a public school system.
• Conducting a presentation to franchisees of a major for-profit early childhood education program on recent developments in state law.
• Assisting a private school to come into compliance with the Family and Medical Leave Act.
• Revising an employee handbook and operations manual.
• Defending a private school against a charge of race discrimination.
• Preparing executive level employment agreements.
• Representing Head Start programs in National Labor Relations Board election proceedings.