Duane Morris LLP

Katherine D. Brodie leads the Washington, D.C., team of the firm’s national education law and policy practice and serves as a Team Lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group. She is one of a small number of attorneys in the United States with a daily practice devoted primarily to the needs of educational institutions (nonprofit, public and proprietary), education associations, education companies and investors in education. She has a strong interest in supporting mission-driven educational institutions and their partners to effectively lead and adapt to the rapid pace of change in the U.S. education sector while maintaining high quality educational services as measured in cost, accessibility and student outcomes.

Ms. Brodie’s experience includes, among other areas of the law, those laws and regulations that directly impact educational institutions, including U.S. Department of Education regulations (Title IV student financial aid); Title IX compliance and response; Clery Act/campus safety; privacy and data security; accrediting agency standards including substantive change (ownership and governance, program, location and other changes); state licensing and authorization; admissions and marketing; online and hybrid education; foreign school and overseas operations including study abroad programs; OPM and partnership agreements; income share agreements; and skills-based, non-degree short term programs. Her advice also includes compliance with U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Student Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), U.S. Department of Veterans (VA)/U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) education benefits, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) participation and funding, state education grant programs, and other federal and state regulations and programs relevant to institutional operations. Because the needs of institutions are so diverse, she is often aided in her work by subject matter professionals in the firm’s other disciplines including tax, employment, real estate, immigration, corporate and trial.

She is a frequent speaker and writer on higher education topics and trends and,

Duane Morris LLP - Partner, 2019-present - Special Counsel, 2015-2018 Ritzert & Leyton P.C. - Counsel, 2012-2015 Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities - Vice President of Government and Legal Affairs, 2009-2012 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP - Counsel, 2003-2009 - Associate, 1997-2003

The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1997