All Practice Areas

Every matter this practice handles, grouped by the situation it starts from. If you are not sure which group yours belongs to, that is normal — start with the family that sounds closest, or call (561) 308-9119 and I will tell you.

This practice represents students and families. It does not advise, defend, or consult for colleges, universities, testing agencies, or licensing boards.

Discipline and conduct

When a school says you did something wrong — a Title IX complaint, a conduct charge, an interim suspension — the process moves on the school’s calendar, not yours.

• Title IX & Sexual Misconduct — Representation for students facing Title IX or sexual-misconduct allegations: the notice, the investigation, the hearing, cross-examination, and the appeal.
• Student Conduct & Code-of-Conduct Defense — Defense in campus code-of-conduct cases, from the first charge letter through the hearing panel and the appeal that follows it.
• Interim Suspension & No-Contact Orders — Interim suspensions and no-contact orders take effect before anyone decides whether you did anything. How they work and how they are challenged.
• Alcohol & Drug Allegations — Alcohol and drug allegations on campus: the conduct charge, the treatment conditions schools attach to it, and the collateral consequences.
• Hazing & Student Organization Discipline — Hazing charges reach individual students and whole organizations at once. How the two proceedings differ and why that matters to your defense.
• Title VI: Antisemitism, Islamophobia & National-Origin Discrimination — Title VI complaints and charges involving antisemitism, Islamophobia, and national-origin discrimination, whether you brought the complaint or answered it.
• Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation — Discrimination, harassment, and retaliation complaints brought by students against their schools under Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, and the ADA.
• Free Speech, Protest & Expression on Campus — Where campus speech, protest, and expression are protected and where a school may still discipline, at public and private institutions.
• Student-on-Student Conflicts & Bullying — Peer conflict, harassment complaints, and bullying allegations between students, including no-contact orders and the Title IX line.
• Student Government & Organization Issues — Removal from student government, organizational sanctions, and disputes over recognition, funding, and elections.

Academics and dismissal

When the question is whether you stay in the program: dismissal, an integrity charge, a failed appeal, a professionalism finding.

• Academic Dismissal & Suspension — Academic dismissal and suspension: the committee, the appeal, the record it rests on, and the narrow grounds on which it can be reversed.
• Academic Misconduct & Honor Code — Honor-code and academic-misconduct charges, from the professor’s report through the integrity panel and the transcript notation that can follow.
• AI Accusations & Academic Integrity — Accusations that a student used AI to write an assignment, and how a detection score gets treated as proof when it is not.
• Grade Disputes & Grade Appeals — Grade appeals and grade disputes: what the policy actually allows, what evidence changes an outcome, and when a grade becomes a legal question.
• Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) Appeals — Satisfactory Academic Progress appeals: financial-aid eligibility, the appeal narrative, the academic plan, and what happens if it is denied.
• Readmission & Reinstatement — Readmission and reinstatement after a dismissal or withdrawal, and how to build a petition a committee can actually say yes to.
• Graduate & Doctoral Program Dismissal — Dismissal from a graduate or doctoral program: qualifying exams, committee conflicts, advisor breakdowns, and the appeal.
• Law School Dismissal & Academic Standing — Law school dismissal and academic-standing disputes, and how the outcome reaches character-and-fitness review at bar admission.
• Medical School Dismissal & Remediation — Medical school dismissal, remediation, promotions-committee review, and the professionalism findings that often accompany them.
• Nursing School Dismissal — Nursing school dismissal: clinical failures, safety findings, and the board-of-nursing consequences students are rarely warned about.
• Health-Professions Programs — Dismissal and discipline in pharmacy, dental, PA, PT, OT, veterinary, and other health-professions programs.
• Clinical, Rotation & Externship Failures — Failures in clinicals, rotations, and externships, where the evaluation is subjective and the site is not the school.
• Professionalism & Fitness Concerns — Professionalism and fitness-for-practice findings, which reach conduct outside class and follow students into licensure.
• Research Misconduct & Dissertation Integrity — Research-misconduct allegations and disputes over dissertation integrity, authorship, and data, including ORI referrals.
• Plagiarism Accusations — what a similarity report actually proves, and what evidence clears a student.
• Academic Probation & Warning — what triggers it, what the letter requires, and what it costs you later.
• Failing to Clear Probation — whether dismissal is automatic when the conditions are not met, and where the arguments actually are.
• Promotion & Progress Committee Decisions — the committees that decide advancement in medical, nursing, dental and PA programs.
• Remediation in Professional Programs — what the offer actually contains, and what accepting it narrows.
• Repeating a Year & Deceleration — a year of tuition, aid eligibility and match timing, and when it can be appealed.

Accommodations

Section 504 and the ADA in higher education — requesting accommodations, documenting them, and challenging a denial.

• Disability Accommodations — 504 & ADA — Section 504 and ADA accommodations for college and graduate students: requesting them, appealing a denial, and enforcing them once granted.
• Testing Accommodations for Standardized & Licensing Exams — Testing accommodations for the LSAT, MCAT, USMLE, NCLEX, bar exam, and other standardized and licensing exams.

Records and status

What the school holds about you and whether you are still enrolled: education records, transcript holds, rescinded admissions, leave, visa status.

• FERPA & Education Records — FERPA and education records: what is in your file, who may see it, how to get a copy, and how to challenge what it says.
• Transcript Holds, Registration Blocks & Record Corrections — Transcript holds, registration blocks, and corrections to a record that is wrong, incomplete, or annotated after a conduct case.
• Degree Revocation & Rescission — Degree revocation and rescission after graduation, and the process a school owes a graduate before it takes a degree back.
• Admission & Acceptance Rescission — Rescinded admission offers, whether for a disclosure, a conduct finding, a senior-year grade, or something found online.
• Leave of Absence & Administrative Breaks — Leaves of absence, medical withdrawals, and involuntary or administrative leave, including the conditions schools attach to return.
• International Students: Discipline, Visa Status & SEVIS — International students facing discipline: how a conduct outcome reaches F-1 or J-1 status, SEVIS reporting, and reinstatement.
• Private Student Loan Disputes — Private student loan disputes, servicing errors, and defenses when a lender or school sues over an education debt.

Litigation against schools

When the campus process has run out, or was never going to be enough.

• Due Process at Public Institutions — Due-process claims against public institutions: notice, a meaningful hearing, and what the Fourteenth Amendment actually requires.
• Breach of Contract Against Universities — Breach-of-contract claims against colleges and universities, where the handbook, the catalog, and the policy become the contract.
• Discrimination & Civil-Rights Litigation — Civil-rights litigation against schools under Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, the ADA, and Section 1983.
• OCR Complaints & Federal Agency Filings — OCR complaints and other federal agency filings: what they can accomplish, what they cannot, and how they fit with litigation.
• Injunctions & Emergency Relief — Temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions when a school’s decision would cause harm that cannot be undone later.
• Appeals & Court Review — Appeals and judicial review of school decisions, including certiorari petitions and the deferential standards courts apply.
• Settlement & Negotiated Resolutions with Schools — Negotiated resolutions with schools: what a settlement can include, what it should never include, and when to walk away.

The accommodation clusters

Accommodations have more depth than any other area on this site, and it is organised three ways so you can come at it from whichever direction you already know.

• By type of accommodation — extended time, stop-the-clock breaks, reduced-distraction testing, paper exams, memory aids, note-taking, recording, CART, food and medication, reduced course load, attendance flexibility, course substitutions, technical standards.
• By disability and medical condition — ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, epilepsy, migraine, narcolepsy, diabetes, sickle cell disease, cancer, asthma, IBD, GERD, food allergies, stuttering, long COVID.
• By exam and by school — LSAT, MCAT, USMLE and COMLEX, NCLEX, GRE and GMAT, bar exam, CPA, SAT and ACT, and by program type.
• The cases and guidance behind the rules — Davis, Ewing, Wynne, Guckenberger, Barnes v. Gorman, the ADA Amendments Act, and OCR guidance.
• FERPA and your education records — what is in your file, who may see it, how to get a copy, and how to correct what it says.

Not in Florida?

I am admitted in Florida and work with local counsel elsewhere. Student defense nationwide covers all fifty states and the District of Columbia, and explains how an out-of-state matter actually works.

What this costs

Fees and scope of services sets out the flat fees in plain numbers, before you call.