We advise businesses on a wide range of corporate matters, including formation, financings, commercial real estate, complex transactions, intellectual property, corporate governance, private equity, securities, mergers and acquisitions.
Practice Area: Schools & Educational Organizations
Schools & Educational Organizations
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For decades, our attorneys have represented independent schools and other educational organizations — serving as trusted advisors to boards, heads of school and business officers. We value our deep relationships with the educational clients we represent. Our experience representing educational organizations allows us to recognize and address the unique issues confronting schools, while drawing on the expertise of the attorneys in our Corporate and Real Estate, Labor & Employment, and Litigation Practice Groups to provide comprehensive legal services to our school clients. Those services range from corporate transactional and governance matters to employment issues, to matters involving the relationships among schools, students, and parents.
Our experience in transactional and governance matters includes representing schools in complex multi-party tax exempt financings and assisting clients in organization formation and tax exempt status matters. We also provide guidance to boards of directors on governance issues; represent clients in obtaining traditional financing; assist with real estate acquisitions, leases, and construction-related matters; and prepare and review a wide range of contracts, including service, employment, and intellectual property agreements.
We also assist educational clients on employment matters. We advise clients on compliance with federal, state and local laws, including laws addressing workplace discrimination, leaves, workplace safety, and wage and hour laws. We help clients develop policies, handbooks and forms, negotiate employment agreements, and conduct trainings on sexual harassment and other employment law issues. When employment disputes do arise, we represent schools in connection with administrative proceedings, complaints, and lawsuits.
Maintaining effective relationships with students and parents is critical for our educational clients. We provide advice on student discipline issues, privacy laws, compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and mandatory reporting of suspected abuse. We also work with clients to develop enrollment agreements and student and parent handbooks.
In addition to these legal services, members of our firm have served on the boards of independent schools, universities and other educational organizations. This board service gives the firm a different perspective on the unique environment in which educational organizations operate.
Areas of Focus
- Labor & Employment Matters
- Corporate Transactions & Finance
- Board Governance
- Student & Parent Relationships
- Litigation
- Real Estate
- Intellectual Property Matters
- Training & Workshops
Representative Clients
- The Bay School of San Francisco
- Branson
- Crystal Springs Uplands School
- The Hamlin School
- Hillbrook School
- Katherine Delmar Burke School
- Lick Wilmerding High School
- The Little School
- Marin Country Day School
- Marin Primary and Middle School
- Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton
- San Francisco Day School
- San Francisco University High School
- Santa Catalina School
- Saint Andrew’s Episcopal School
- Sonoma Academy
- Town School for Boys
- The Urban School
Our estate planning attorneys provide counsel on issues of estate planning, trust formation, charitable planning and trust and estate administration to individuals, families and private foundations.
With expertise and experience in employment litigation, preventive counseling, and traditional labor law, Folger Levin offers comprehensive services to meet the legal needs of employers.
Folger Levin attorneys help nonprofit organizations navigate the many state and federal legal requirements that are unique to the nonprofit sector.
Our litigation attorneys have extensive trial and appellate experience representing corporate clients and individuals in a wide array of complex commercial disputes.
Schools & Educational Organizations
For decades, our attorneys have represented independent schools and other educational organizations — serving as trusted advisors to boards, heads of school and business officers.
