Higher Education

• Tax issues, including monitoring constantly changing federal, state and local laws for tax-exempt institutions; planning and compliance with unrelated business income, real estate tax exemptions, employment taxes, IRS tax audits, and joint ventures.
• Labor and employment issues, including governmental compliance, employee benefits, collective bargaining and union relations, tenure and nepotism; class-action litigation, sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit defense, litigation prevention and insurance coverage analysis.
• Real estate and zoning:  real estate transactions, acquisition, permitting and environmental matters; financing, development, project management, zoning and land-use issues.
• Institutional financing:  multifaceted financing, bond counsel, acquisitions, grants, and other funding issues.
• Charitable and planned giving:  endowment building, negotiating and drafting structured donations and charitable giving vehicles, advice on substantiation and valuation of gifts and tax-reporting issues.
• Governance: chairing governing bodies, administrative restructuring, governance issues, revising by-laws, restructuring boards and committees, advising on conflict of interest policies, trustee liability, insurance and indemnification.
• Campus management, including structure and efficiency analysis, utility and service contract counseling, personnel and financial planning, structuring non-profit and for-profit ventures.        
• Government affairs:  interfacing with state and local government, drafting legislation, representation before the U.S. Department of Education.