Education Law

Our Education Law team represents elementary schools, charter schools, high schools, and colleges and universities in all issues pertaining to education law. It also advises regarding any legal concerns associated with the operations of schools, including employment and labor, taxation, real estate, land use, construction, and nonprofit board and foundation issues. 

Taylor Porter attorneys represent schools in drafting and revising handbooks, faculty handbooks, and contracts as well as in matters related to discipline, admissions, and hiring. The firm serves as counsel to school foundations and the Louisiana High School Athletic Association, advising them on policy making and constitutional law issues for high school athletics. 

Several of our Partners serve as general counsel for high schools in the Baton Rouge area.

Representative Experience:

• Education issues, including faculty, staff, and student relationships; civil service; procurement; public financing contracts; property; contract confection and negotiation; campus records; research confidentiality; claims under Title VII, Title IX, and the Civil Rights Act; the Americans with Disabilities Act; NCAA matters; church/state relations and free speech issues; technology transfer; and numerous other public law issues regarding elementary, secondary, and higher education.
• Labor and employment issues, including hirings, wage issues, overtime policies, dismissals, and collaboration with administrators to develop manuals and handbooks that outline affirmative action plans, sexual harassment policies and procedures, and drug-testing policies and procedures.
• Taxation, financing, and bonding issues, including charter school tax-exempt status, filings with the IRS, private donations, bank loans, tax credits, and bond opportunities.
• Real estate, construction, land use, and facility-use arrangement issues, including negotiating leases with property owners for commercial real estate and property.
• Construction issues for new charter schools or renovation issues with existing charter schools and working with general contractors on various contract concerns.

Taylor Porter is active in the local education community. The firm is a community outreach partner with Volunteers in Public Schools (VIPS) and has participated in several school-related community projects.