General Education

Professionalism and excellence across the board.

Educational institutions face a unique set of challenges and legal issues, while maintaining, protecting, and promoting the organizations’ mission.

As the demographics and culture of an organization shift, institutions are forced to stay current with student and faculty policies, hiring and firing procedures, real estate, property, litigation, legislative changes, and liability concerns. Over the years, we’ve won more than just lawsuits and simply our share of business, we’ve earned trust.

We regularly handle the following legal issues for our clients:

Annexation
Appointment and election of board members
Charter schools
Child complaints
Constitutional issues
Contract negotiation and interpretation
Education law
Election law issues
Filing of financial disclosure statements under the Missouri ethics law
Governance
Investigations into citizen and internal complaints
Missouri Open Meetings Act
Office of civil rights investigations
Personal injury claims
Policy development
Procedural requirements of meetings
Procurement
Protection of assessed valuation
Public record requests
Public school law
Purchasing and contracting
Qualifications and rights of candidates
Residency issues
School board defense
School board liability
School desegregation
School uniform policies
Security
Sexual harassment by students and staff
Special education
Staff training regarding risk management and prevention
Student drug testing
Student searches
Teacher tenure
Use of the Internet by students and staff
Use of school premises by religious and other groups

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