Policy review and drafting is a major part of our preventative lawyering. We design policies that are at once comprehensive and easy to follow, setting clear expectations for community members and providing clear standards and procedures for administrators or faculty addressing issues. We update policies to comply with legal mandates and also have broad experience drafting a wide variety of academic and nonacademic policies consistent with best practices.
Our experience across our wide range of clients helps us understand best practices and varying approaches to policy choices and allows us to benchmark policies from trusted peers. From small tweaks to overhauls and everything in between, we can help you set clear guidance and expectations for your community.
Policy review and drafting is a major part of our preventative lawyering. We design policies that are at once comprehensive and easy to follow, setting clear expectations for community members and providing clear standards and procedures for administrators or faculty addressing issues. We update policies to comply with legal mandates and also have broad experience drafting a wide variety of academic and nonacademic policies consistent with best practices.
Our experience across our wide range of clients helps us understand best practices and varying approaches to policy choices and allows us to benchmark policies from trusted peers. From small tweaks to overhauls and everything in between, we can help you set clear guidance and expectations for your community.
Policies we have worked on include:
- Nondiscrimination and anti-harassment, including compliance with federal, state and local laws
- The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), including annual notices
- Student misconduct, including specific policies on protest and time/place/manner restrictions, hazing, drugs and alcohol and related procedures
- Social media
- Academic integrity
- Tuition and fee refund
- Religious and disability accommodations
- Document retention policies, including detailed schedules
- Conflict-of-interest policies, including fiduciary and non-fiduciary policies
- Honoraria
- Codes of ethics
- Student grievance procedures
- Web accessibility
- Leaves of absence
- Human resources policies, including benefits
And no policy list would be complete without referencing a policy on policies; our attorneys also have experience advising on the process for developing and amending policies, including navigating the role of shared governance and student governance. We have also been part of teams developing best practices for policy management, distribution, training programs and tracking each of the above.
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