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Ishan K. Bhabha
Co-Chair
202 637-6327 ibhabha@jenner.com -
Terri L. Mascherin
Co-Chair
312 923-2799 tmascherin@jenner.com
Schools, universities and companies that support the education sector need smart, sophisticated legal counsel who are familiar with the ever-changing regulatory environment. Jenner & Block is uniquely positioned to serve these clients, offering them creativity, deep regulatory and technical expertise, and extensive litigation, investigation, and crisis management experience. Our lawyers operate at the nexus of compliance and litigation in the large-scale matters that pose significant risk to the legal, financial, and reputational standing of major institutions, as well as in the routine but difficult matters that universities and other affiliated institutions face every day.
Given the scrutiny under which educational institutions operate, their legal challenges require sensitivities to many different concerns: actual or threatened civil or criminal litigation, intense media pressure, congressional or Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigations, and overlapping inquiries by state and federal regulators, accreditors, and others. Jenner & Block is exceptionally well-suited to counsel and defend institutions in these situations. While we have extensive litigation experience – and have represented academic institutions at all levels of litigation, including in the US Supreme Court – our higher education practice has particular strengths dealing with the multi-faceted problems that arise outside of or in conjunction with litigation. On issues ranging from sexual misconduct and student athletics to cybersecurity and online education, we have helped our clients manage their problems and advance their goals.
We bring a wide range of experience to these challenges: