Verrill Dana Introduces Higher Education Group
BOSTON, MA and PORTLAND, ME (May 11, 2009) - Verrill Dana, LLP is pleased to announce the establishment of its Higher Education Industry Group. The firm has served as trusted legal counsel to some of the region's most respected educational institutions for nearly 50 years.
The Higher Ed Group was formalized to continue to meet the complex needs of both public and private college and university clients that require lawyers with specialized experience in disciplines relevant to the industry.
The Higher Education Industry Group is chaired by Verrill Dana partner Elizabeth Brody Gluck, who works in the firm's Boston office. The Group provides a broad range of legal services for its higher education clients, including:
- student health and safety, student affairs and risk management;
- sustainability and environmental compliance;
- student and faculty immigration matters;
- labor and employment matters; and
- benefits and compensation
The Group also offers services relating to institutional financing and governance, including: charitable trusts, estate planning and bond financing; regulatory compliance; patent and intellectual property; litigation; and transactional issues.
The Higher Education Industry Group is comprised of attorneys from a variety of legal disciplines, all committed to providing individualized advice, advocacy, and counsel.
About Verrill Dana:
Verrill Dana, LLP is one of the leading law firms in New England, widely known for delivering high quality legal services in a thoughtful and responsive manner that regularly exceeds our clients' expectations.
Tracing its roots to 1862, the firm has grown to become one of Maine's largest law firms. In recent years the firm has grown regionally, and beyond, to become the only Maine firm with offices in Boston, Augusta, Hartford and Washington D.C.. Today, Verrill Dana is a dynamic firm that provides sophisticated legal representation to businesses and individuals in a wide variety of areas. These include all of the traditional areas of legal services, such as litigation, real estate, business law, labor and employment law, and estate planning; and a number of specialized practice areas, such as health care and health technology, immigration and global migration, employee benefits and executive compensation, intellectual property, energy, timberlands, and environmental law, among other
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