Student Defense Nationwide

A national practice, by design

Student defense is, at its core, a federal and campus-process practice — which is why it travels. The disputes that bring students to me are governed first by the school’s own written policies and second by federal law: FERPA, Title IX, Section 504 and the ADA, constitutional due process at public institutions, and the ADA’s testing-accommodation rules for national exams. Those rules read the same in Ann Arbor, Austin, and Atlanta, and the campus process they feed into runs on the school’s handbook wherever the campus sits.

What I do, wherever you study

  • Record review and strategy — the flat-fee Full Read + Game Plan engagement: your school’s policies, your federal claims, and your practical options, assessed together.
  • Support inside the campus process. Who may advise you in a university proceeding is set by the school’s policy, not by any state’s bar rules — and many schools allow any advisor the student chooses. Where the policy permits, I prepare statements, submissions, appeals, and hearing strategy for students at institutions across the country.
  • Exam and testing accommodations. LSAT, MCAT, GRE, USMLE, COMLEX, NCLEX, bar, and CPA accommodation requests, denials, and appeals run through national testing programs under federal law — there is no state line to cross. See exam accommodations.
  • Court, with the right team. Federal claims can often be brought where the student is; where a courtroom outside Florida is the right move, the case proceeds through pro hac vice admission and association with counsel admitted there — a routine structure courts see every day. See how association works.

Research without state lines

Behind every matter is the same research platform a university’s outside counsel uses: Westlaw coverage of every state’s cases, statutes, rules, and administrative codes, plus the complete federal record — with every citation verified at its source. When a matter turns on one state’s contract law or education code, the research capability is already in place; the only question is whether that state’s rules call for associating counsel admitted there, and I will tell you plainly when they do.

Straight answers about licensure

I am admitted in Florida, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Florida, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Federal-law assessment and campus-process support travel with me; advice on another state’s law and appearances in its courts happen with local counsel or through pro hac vice admission. If your matter is purely a question of another state’s law, I will say so on the first call and point you to the right kind of lawyer — that candor costs you one phone call and saves you a retainer.

The rules that make cross-state work possible

This structure is not improvisation — it is how modern legal practice is designed to work. Nearly every state has adopted temporary-practice provisions modeled on ABA Model Rule 5.5(c), which permit an out-of-state lawyer to work on a matter in association with counsel admitted there, in anticipation of pro hac vice admission, or where the work arises out of and is reasonably related to the lawyer’s home-state practice — and campus proceedings themselves are governed by the school’s own policy on advisors, not by court-admission rules. Every engagement involving another state is structured to fit that state’s version of these rules before work begins, and where a matter calls for something different, I say so up front.

By state

Every state has its own page, and on each one every institution — the public universities, the private colleges, and the medical, osteopathic, nursing, and law schools — has its own individual page as well. Those per-school pages are linked from each state’s page rather than listed here, which keeps this page readable and puts the school-specific detail where it belongs. Pick your state, then your school.

  • Alabama — Alabama, Auburn, UAB, South Alabama, Samford, ACOM, VCOM-Auburn, and more.
  • Alaska — the University of Alaska campuses and Alaska Pacific, and more.
  • Arizona — ASU, Arizona, NAU, Grand Canyon, Midwestern, A.T. Still, Creighton-Phoenix, and more.
  • Arkansas — Arkansas, Arkansas State, UCA, UAMS, and NYIT-Arkansas, and more.
  • California — the UC and CSU systems, Stanford, USC, Loma Linda, Western U/COMP, Touro-CA, CHSU, and more.
  • Colorado — Colorado, Colorado State, Denver, CU Anschutz, and Rocky Vista, and more.
  • Connecticut — UConn, Yale, Quinnipiac, Fairfield, and the state universities, and more.
  • Delaware — Delaware, Delaware State, Wesley, and Goldey-Beacom, and more.
  • Florida — the complete school-by-school index, including every osteopathic program, and more.
  • Georgia — UGA, Georgia Tech, Emory, Mercer, Morehouse, Augusta/MCG, PCOM Georgia, and more.
  • Hawaii — Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Pacific, Chaminade, and BYU-Hawaii, and more.
  • Idaho — Boise State, Idaho, Idaho State, and ICOM, and more.
  • Illinois — Illinois, UIC, Northwestern, Chicago, Loyola, DePaul, Rush, Midwestern, Rosalind Franklin, and more.
  • Indiana — Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Butler, IU medicine, and Marian, and more.
  • Iowa — Iowa, Iowa State, Northern Iowa, Drake, and Des Moines University, and more.
  • Kansas — Kansas, Kansas State, Wichita State, Washburn, KU Medical Center, and KansasCOM, and more.
  • Kentucky — Kentucky, Louisville, Western Kentucky, and the state universities, and more.
  • Louisiana — LSU, Tulane, Louisiana Tech, Loyola, Xavier, and the LSU health schools, and more.
  • Maine — Maine, Southern Maine, Bowdoin, Colby, Bates, and UNE, and more.
  • Maryland — Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Towson, UMBC, and the Maryland health and law schools, and more.
  • Massachusetts — Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, Northeastern, UMass, Tufts, and the medical and law schools, and more.
  • Michigan — Michigan, Michigan State, Wayne State, MSUCOM, OUWB, Cooley, and more.
  • Minnesota — Minnesota, Mankato, St. Cloud, Carleton, Macalester, St. Thomas, Mayo, Mitchell Hamline, and more.
  • Mississippi — Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Southern Miss, and William Carey, and more.
  • Missouri — Missouri, Washington University, Saint Louis, KCU, ATSU, and the law schools, and more.
  • Montana — Montana, Montana State, Montana Tech, and Touro-Montana, and more.
  • Nebraska — Nebraska, UNO, Creighton, and the Nebraska Medical Center, and more.
  • Nevada — UNLV, Reno, Nevada State, Touro-Nevada, and Boyd law, and more.
  • New Hampshire — New Hampshire, Dartmouth, Southern New Hampshire, and Franklin Pierce, and more.
  • New Jersey — Rutgers, Princeton, Seton Hall, Rowan, NJIT, and the medical and law schools, and more.
  • New Mexico — New Mexico, New Mexico State, NM Tech, UNM medicine, and Burrell, and more.
  • New York — the SUNY and CUNY systems, Columbia, NYU, Cornell, NYITCOM, TouroCOM, and more.
  • North Carolina — Duke, UNC, NC State, Wake Forest, ECU, Campbell, and the health schools, and more.
  • North Dakota — North Dakota, North Dakota State, and Minot State, and more.
  • Ohio — Ohio State, Cincinnati, Case Western, Ohio University Heritage COM, NEOMED, and more.
  • Oklahoma — Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Tulsa, OSU-COM, and the law schools, and more.
  • Oregon — Oregon, Oregon State, Portland State, OHSU, Lewis & Clark, and Willamette, and more.
  • Pennsylvania — Penn, Penn State, Pitt, Temple, Drexel, PCOM, LECOM, Jefferson, and more.
  • Rhode Island — Brown, URI, Providence, Bryant, and Roger Williams, and more.
  • South Carolina — South Carolina, Clemson, MUSC, Furman, and the law school, and more.
  • South Dakota — South Dakota, South Dakota State, SD Mines, and Augustana, and more.
  • Tennessee — Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Memphis, Meharry, LMU-DCOM, and the law schools, and more.
  • Texas — the UT and A&M systems, Houston, Rice, Baylor, BCM, TCOM, Sam Houston, UIW, and more.
  • Utah — Utah, Utah State, Weber State, BYU, Noorda, and Rocky Vista Southern Utah, and more.
  • Vermont — Vermont, Middlebury, Norwich, and the UVM medical school, and more.
  • Virginia — UVA, Virginia Tech, William & Mary, VCU, George Mason, EVMS, VCOM, and the law schools, and more.
  • Washington — Washington, Washington State, Gonzaga, Seattle, PLU, and PNWU, and more.
  • Washington, D.C. — Georgetown, George Washington, American, Howard, and Catholic University, and more.
  • West Virginia — West Virginia, Marshall, WVSOM, and the law school, and more.
  • Wisconsin — Wisconsin, Marquette, MCW, and the UW system campuses, and more.
  • Wyoming — the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming community-college system, and more.

If a specific school is not yet built out, the state page still explains how discipline, dismissal, appeals, and accommodations work at every institution in that state, and the analysis in any given matter depends far more on the governing policy and the facts than on which page exists. Email me and I will point you to the right starting place.