Practices

Education

Guide clients through the complex regulatory environment that affects the education sector

Why Cooley

20+ attorneys and subject matter professionals focused on education regulatory issues

Team includes senior personnel from the Department of Education, former regional and national accreditation agency executives and senior staff from one of the largest state authorizing agencies

Clients include hundreds of institutions of every type, public, independent and for-profit, from community colleges to top-tier research universities, as well as the service providers that support the education community and the firms that finance it

Unique State and International Authorization Services that help schools navigate the cross-border environment for online education

Experienced in a wide variety of institutional structures, corporate formation, for-profit to non-profit conversions and M&A transactions

Nationally ranked privacy practice to navigate data protection and student privacy issues

Aggressive and effective litigators that represent education clients in a wide range of controversies in federal and state courts, and before the Department of Education

Government analytics practice headed by a former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Education that provides clients with federal public policy insights and regulatory strategies to make informed business decisions

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