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Every parent wants their children to have the opportunity to go to college and prepare themselves for a career. In the midst of a divorce case, however, making your children's college plans can be problematic.

On March 30, the CFPB settled with a student loan servicer to resolve allegations that the servicer made deceptive statements to student loan borrowers and misrepresented their forgiveness...

California is continuing to lead the way on student lending regulation. Its latest enactment further complicates the efforts of financial entities to collect on defaulted private student loans. We discuss the statute below.

U.S. Representative Maxine Waters, Chairwoman of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, penned a letter to the incoming Biden administration suggesting changes to the student...

Counsel at schools and universities understandably don't follow legal developments in financial services very closely, but recent changes in regulations affecting prepaid accounts

First, the bill would expand the types of educational materials that would be excluded from reporting because they "directly benefit patients or are intended for patient use."

Shin v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, et al., a Massachusetts Superior Court judge found that the parents of Elizabeth Shin could proceed with their claims against two MIT administrators and four MIT medical professionals in a lawsuit over their daughter’s suicide.

July 11, 2019 Resident training does not always proceed as smoothly as one hopes. Sometimes a patient may experience an adverse event as a result of care provided by a resident

The Appellate Division's recent ruling in Lynch, Inc. v. Board of Education addresses a critical question for New York municipalities and school districts: Can the "piggybacking" exemption under General Municipal Law § 103(16) be used to award public works construction contracts?

A federal court in New York struck down a U.S. Department of Education policy requiring American Indian students born in Canada to obtain immigration documents before receiving federal student aid. The decision affirms that Jay Treaty students cannot be subjected to additional documentation requirements not authorized by Congress, marking a significant victory for the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe and Indigenous students nationwide.

As we near the end of the first year of the Biden administration, we wanted to highlight a Department of Justice (DOJ or "the Department") action that may become increasingly relevant in the federal research space in 2022.

Public entities are not exempt from reporting if they have adopted their own procurement policies.

On January 9, 2025, a federal judge from the Eastern District of Kentucky vacated the Biden Administration's 2024 Title IX Rule, effectively taking it "off the books" nationwide.

On April 3, 2026, the White House released President Donald Trump's fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget proposal for the next federal fiscal year that begins on October 1, 2026.

In our last post, we discussed how in recent years colleges and universities have been among the most successful users of the public-private partnership ("P3") model.

House Ed and Labor Committee Plans a Busy Week. Next week, subcommittees of the House Committee on Education & Labor will hold two hearings.

On March 10, 2025, Judge Adam B. Abelson of the US District Court for the District of Maryland issued a clarified preliminary injunction to address the question of whether the previous injunction applied to entities beyond the defendants named in the lawsuit.