Higher Education

Paul Hastings routinely helps higher education clients with their most sensitive and challenging matters. Our deep bench of practitioners has extensive and longstanding experience representing university, research institution and higher education clients across a host of different practice areas.

Partnering With Higher Education Institutions on Legal Issues

• Antitrust and Class Actions: Our team has a wide range of experience representing colleges and universities in high-profile antitrust and class action litigation. These include price-fixing and compensation lawsuits.
• Labor and Employment: For over 70 years, we have been a go-to firm for traditional labor and employment, representing higher education clients in their most complex, challenging, sensitive and high-profiles matters. We have decades of experience litigating cases involving university students, contractors and employees, including tenured professors, across all facets of legal issues.
• Investigations: With over 150 attorneys with relevant experience, we are equipped to handle any investigation on behalf of institutions of higher education, regardless of the nature and scope of the inquiry. As a result, our team has a positive record representing higher education institutions in high-stakes investigations in a variety of areas.
• High-Profile, Single Plaintiff Complaints, Title VI and Title IX: We have significant experience defending dozens of sexual assault and harassment complaints, as well as in Title IX complaints, litigation and counseling. We have extensive administrative mandamus experience and regularly represent colleges and universities in myriad workplace investigations.