Campus on Trial: Litigation Management for Busy College Counsel

Lauren Peach is a seasoned legal leader who heads the Higher Education team at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. In this role, she serves as a trusted advisor and strategic litigator for all of Colorado’s public colleges and universities, their governing boards, and several state agencies. Under Lauren’s leadership, the team provides comprehensive legal counsel and deftly handles a wide range of litigation in state, federal, administrative, and appellate courts. 

Drawing on her deep experience in employment law and as both general counsel and litigator across multiple jurisdictions, Lauren brings a pragmatic, high-level perspective to every case and client interaction. She is known for her ability to navigate complex legal challenges while maintaining strong, solution-focused partnerships with institutional stakeholders. 

Lauren not only manages a dedicated legal team but also orchestrates litigation strategy and staffing across the broader Attorney General’s Office and with outside counsel—ensuring her clients are represented with skill, consistency, and excellence. 

David Corry is General Counsel for Liberty University and its affiliated entities. He oversees a team of nine attorneys that provide legal services and advice to decision makers for the world’s largest Christian university, resolve legal claims, facilitate transactions, foster organizational ethics and a culture of compliance, and provide counsel for sound decision making and creative problem solving—all in service to the university’s mission. This requires his practice to be wide and varied since the work of these entities touches so many areas of the law. He also directs and oversees various outside counsel engaged to provide legal services to the University and serves as Secretary to the Board of Trustees.  

David previously served as Senior Litigation Counsel for Liberty Counsel, a nationwide public interest religious civil liberties law firm. His practice with Liberty Counsel focused primarily on religious liberty and free speech constitutional law matters for individuals and ministries.  

Before joining Liberty Counsel, David was the Chief Legal Officer for Jim Walter Homes, a top-30 homebuilder. The first part of his legal career primarily involved commercial and real-estate related litigation, serving as a shareholder and founding attorney of medium-sized real estate boutique firm in Tampa, Florida.  

David has published numerous articles in legal publications and spoken at various legal seminars and workshops. He served on the School of Business graduate program faculty at Liberty University. He held other positions in higher education before entering law school.  

David was graduated with honors from Florida State University College of Law in 1990. He received a B.A. in Mass Communications with distinction from the University of South Florida.  

David is the seventh son in a family of nine children. He and his wife, Suzanne, raised three children, ages from twenty-two to thirty-six and hosted numerous foster children in their home in Lynchburg, Virginia. 

Leslie Bissinger Golden serves as Associate General Counsel for Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. In this role, Ms. Golden supports the Vice President for Policy and General Counsel by providing legal advice and counseling to the College, participating in the creation and enforcement of College policy, and working with members of the Valencia community to further the Colleges interests. Ms. Golden previously served as an administrator at another institution before coming to Valencia. Prior to that, Ms. Golden practiced with the firms of Baker & Hostetler and Rumberger, Kirk and Caldwell in Orlando as a civil and commercial litigator. She received her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Florida and her law degree, cum laude, from Stetson Universitys College of Law.