Overview

At Bond, we believe one of our most valuable services is helping clients avoid problems before they occur. To that end, we conduct issue-specific trainings for a wide cross section of university stakeholders, including presidential and senior leadership teams, academic leadership, compliance officers, student conduct administrators, disability accommodations providers, religious life administrators, human resources personnel, athletics staff and faculty. Each training is tailored to the issue at hand, the university personnel and procedures involved, and the specific culture and expectations of the institution. We conduct small and large group training in a variety of formats, as desired by the client, including in-person, remote and hybrid. Our attorneys not only write and conduct these trainings, but we often help clients comply with agency training tracking requirements and design post-training monitoring to help address systemic issues.

Our attorneys’ training skills are informed by their experience before national and statewide audiences. Our attorneys have presented on issues affecting institutions at NACUA, CICU, the National Association of Attorneys General, the U.S. Navy and the New York City Bar Association, among other organizations. Bond attorneys are frequent presenters at meetings of the New York NACUA Affinity Group, which is led and co-hosted by a Bond attorney who ensures the programming includes timely resources for the New York higher education community.

Updates

To keep our higher education clients up to date on the latest legal developments, we provide a variety of resources, including written client alerts and information memos. These are sent by email via Bond’s Higher Education Law Report (https://www.bsk.com/higher-education-law-report). Bond also publishes a New York Labor and Employment Law Report (https://www.bsk.com/new-york-labor-and-employment-law-report) and maintains an Articles page (https://www.bsk.com/news-events-videos/articles) where client alerts on a variety of practice area subjects are cataloged.

Just a few recent examples of such written updates include:

  • Trump Administration Issues Memorandum Aimed at Requiring Colleges and Universities to Produce More Student and Applicant Data, https://bit.ly/4aihLoS, (August 21, 2025).
  • Title VI Coordinator Mandate for New York Colleges and Universities Signed into Law, https://bit.ly/3XM4zkH, (August 27, 2025).
  • Expanded Benefits for Educational Assistance Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, https://bit.ly/4obuTzL, (September 12, 2025).
  • DOL Launches “Project Firewall" to Target H-1B Program Abuse, https://bit.ly/4rkgcNu, (September 23, 2025).

Our higher education attorneys also present in-person seminars and remote webinars to brief our clients on timely higher education law topics, such as major federal law and policy shifts. We have also recently featured presentations on crisis management, data privacy and cybersecurity, disability and pregnancy-related accommodations, hiring and firing best practices, leave laws and employee benefits issues.

Examples of such recent presentations include: