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Student Rights

We regularly represent our higher education institution clients in defending claims filed by students with the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR). These claims include challenges to college decisions on classroom disability accommodation requests and college grade decisions. Our firm’s services in this area include policy drafting, training, counseling on equal educational opportunities, and support with policy implementation and investigation of grievances.

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Our attorneys do extensive work with college clients to ensure compliance with applicable civil rights laws for students in all aspects of education, including recruitment, admissions, counseling, financial assistance, athletics, and extracurricular activities, and facilities access. Additionally, we work closely with college leadership teams to appropriately address disciplinary exclusions and emergency removals of students based upon the determinations of college threat assessment teams.

We place a strong emphasis on teamwork, which enables us to leverage the breadth and depth of knowledge of all our attorneys, paralegals and staff.