National Association of College and University Attorneys

The Financial Value Transparency Wake-Up Call: Navigating a New Compliance and Business Landscape
2023-11-30 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Webinar

Time to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators

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About this Event

On September 28, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, published a new Final Rule governing Gainful Employment programs and, separately, a new Financial Value Transparency Framework that would apply to “nearly all academic programs at postsecondary institutions.” The Department will establish performance benchmarks for each program based on information institutions will be required to report and earnings data to be provided by a federal agency. Information regarding each program’s performance will then be available on the Department’s website, and institutions will be required to disclose its availability to prospective and current students. For graduate degree programs with failing outcomes under the debt-burden measures, prospective students will be required to acknowledge viewing the Department’s new website before entering into an enrollment agreement. For failing non-degree programs, institutions must adhere to warning and disclosure requirements for both prospective and current students. And non-degree programs that fail multiple years will lose Title IV eligibility.

Join us for this 2-hour webinar in which two expert NACUA member attorneys will discuss:

The origins of the Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment Rule,

The new reporting and disclosure requirements under the Rule and the logistical challenges to expect in establishing compliance,

How the Department will evaluate each academic program and the likely potential consequences of receiving “high-debt-burden” or “low-earning” labels, and

How to prepare campus leaders and stakeholders to build Financial Value Transparency evaluations into academic program planning and review.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar will be of interest to lawyers employed by colleges and universities within the Office of General Counsel and in various roles throughout the institution, outside counsel, and senior institutional leaders.

Speakers

Hailyn Chen

Hailyn Chen
Co-Managing Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson

Hailyn Chen is a Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.

Ms. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom, with a practice focused on complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

Ms. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School, an elite boarding school in Ojai, California. In 2021, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and, in 2020, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.

Ms. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS), the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76,000 lawyers around the world.

She has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer, the Daily Journal, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health, Athletic Medicine, and Academic Medical Centers,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.

Ms. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters, including personal injury, First Amendment, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation, she advises on complex policy, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.

She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Program Schedule

TimeSession Topic1:00 P.M. ETIntroductionsOrigins of the new frameworkPotential litigation and other obstacles to full implementationThe reporting and disclosure requirements How the metrics workThe consequences of a “high-debt-burden” or “low-earning” labelImplications for academic program planning and reviewQuestions and Answers3:00 P.M. ETConclusion

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Fall 2023 CLE Workshop: Compliance
2023-11-08 00:00 - 2023-11-10 23:59 | Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC, Washington, DC

Race-Conscious Admissions Guidance Post-Students for Fair Admissions (Part 3)
2023-09-29 15:00 - 17:00
Webinar

Time to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators

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About this Event

In the weeks since the Supreme Court issued its opinion in the race-conscious admissions cases, the federal and state policy and enforcement frameworks around admissions have already shifted in significant ways with new challenges to legacy admissions and race-conscious scholarships surfacing at an increasing rate. On June 29, 2023, attendees of the 2023 NACUA Annual Conference gathered for a Live Briefing to hear initial impressions regarding the opinion, its impacts on higher education, and initial considerations for next steps. On July 31, 2023, NACUA offered a 45-minute Briefing during which a trio of experts provided a comprehensive summary of the opinion, an overview of the then-current state of litigation and external developments, and practical tips to position your institution for moving forward. Please join NACUA, for the third installment in this timely and important series, which is a two-hour webinar with the expert panel from the second Briefing returning to cover topics, including:

Brief overview of the opinion

90-day retrospective on emerging trends in impacts to legacy admissions and scholarship administration

Deep dive into the August 14, 2023, Joint Guidance Documents co-released by the Departments of Education and Justice

Concrete practical applications to campus policy and practice

Question-and-answer session with the panel

Who Should Attend?The webinar will be of interest to in-house and outside college and university counsel, particularly to counsel who advise on institutional policy development and management, the alignment of institutional DEI values with admissions and financial aid policies and practices, and the administration of gift instruments. Admissions and financial aid administrators, institutional equity officers and administrators, and major gifts officers, will also find this webinar valuable.

Speakers

Hailyn Chen

Hailyn Chen
Co-Managing Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson

Hailyn Chen is a Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.

Ms. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom, with a practice focused on complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

Ms. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School, an elite boarding school in Ojai, California. In 2021, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and, in 2020, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.

Ms. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS), the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76,000 lawyers around the world.

She has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer, the Daily Journal, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health, Athletic Medicine, and Academic Medical Centers,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.

Ms. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters, including personal injury, First Amendment, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation, she advises on complex policy, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.

She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Program Schedule

TimeSession Topic3:00 P.M. ETIntroductionSummary of SCOTUS’s race-conscious admissions decisionJoint Guidance Documents and Practical ApplicationsCollateral Impacts Updates: Scenario(s)Questions and Answers 4:55 P.M. ETConclusion

CLE

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2023 Annual Conference
2023-06-27 00:00 - 2023-06-30 23:59 | Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL

2023 Lawyers New to Higher Education Workshop
2023-06-26 00:00 - 2023-06-27 23:59 | Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL

What General Counsel Need to Know About Ombuds
2023-05-30 12:00 - 13:15
Webinar

Time to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators

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About this Event

More and more institutions of higher education are creating ombuds offices on campus. Their unique roles are sometimes not fully understood or effectively leveraged to complement formal resolution channels.

Please join NACUA and cooperating organization, the International Ombuds Association, for a complimentary overview of the practice of organizational ombuds, including:

Discussion on the role of ombuds on campus,

How ombuds and general counsel can work together effectively, and

The role of campus ombuds in risk management at institutions of higher education.

This complimentary webinar, which will not offer CLE credit, will be a useful primer leading up to our Annual Conference session titled, Embracing Conflict: Ombuds as Strategic Allies for Campus Counsel, which will feature a more in-depth discussion of how the Office of General Counsel can effectively interface with the institution’s Ombuds.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar will be of interest to in-house and outside counsel to colleges and universities, senior institutional leadership, and current ombuds at colleges and universities.

Speakers

Hailyn Chen

Hailyn Chen
Co-Managing Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson

Hailyn Chen is a Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.

Ms. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom, with a practice focused on complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

Ms. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School, an elite boarding school in Ojai, California. In 2021, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and, in 2020, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.

Ms. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS), the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76,000 lawyers around the world.

She has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer, the Daily Journal, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health, Athletic Medicine, and Academic Medical Centers,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.

Ms. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters, including personal injury, First Amendment, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation, she advises on complex policy, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.

She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Program Schedule

TimeSession Topic12:00 P.M. ETIntroductionWhat is an ombuds and how does one become an ombuds?How does the ombuds role differ from that of the office of general counsel or human resources?Discussion of a hypothetical scenario The importance of structure1:15 P.M. ETConclusion

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You Signed What?! Delegated Contractual Authority – Best Practices and Policies
2023-05-16 12:00 - 14:00
Webinar

Time to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators

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About this Event

At any given moment, colleges and universities manage hundreds, if not thousands, of contracts reaching all areas of campus operations. Depending on an institution’s size, it can be nearly impossible for campus counsel to review every contract. Therefore, officers and employees on campus are often granted delegated signature authority to enter into contracts on behalf of the institution.

Please join us for a 2-hour webinar where two expert NACUA member attorneys will discuss delegated contractual authority, including:

Discussion on best practices for implementing a contractual authority policy or process, including tips and samples for creating a delegated contractual authority matrix;

Distinctions between campus counsel’s role vs. the role of institutional business partners;

Litigation issues, including those related to personal liability;

Caselaw for both public and private institutions;

Issues pertaining to certain types of contracts, such as clickthrough agreements.

Who should attend?

This webinar will be of interest to in-house and outside counsel to colleges and universities, as well as other higher education administrators who draft or approve contracts.

Speakers

Hailyn Chen

Hailyn Chen
Co-Managing Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson

Hailyn Chen is a Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.

Ms. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom, with a practice focused on complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

Ms. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School, an elite boarding school in Ojai, California. In 2021, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and, in 2020, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.

Ms. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS), the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76,000 lawyers around the world.

She has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer, the Daily Journal, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health, Athletic Medicine, and Academic Medical Centers,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.

Ms. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters, including personal injury, First Amendment, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation, she advises on complex policy, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.

She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Program Schedule

TimeSession Topic12:00 P.M. ETIntroductionOverview of signature authority process Caselaw update CQuestions & AnswersLitigation issues, including those related to personal liabilityHypotheticals Questions & Answers1:30 P.M. ETConclusion

CLE

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Colleges and Universities as Commercial Landlords: Considerations for the Generalist
2023-04-19 12:00 - 13:30
Webinar

Time to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators

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About this Event

Many, perhaps most, colleges and universities are also landlords—not only to students in residence halls but also to a variety of commercial interests ranging from small, local “mom and pop” shops to large, brand-name corporate franchises. At the same time, real estate law is a world unto itself with its own language and practices. While some large institutions may have real estate experts in their legal departments, many institutions have one or two generalists who also handle leasing from time to time.

Join us for a 90-minute webinar in which two expert NACUA member attorneys and a campus Director of Real Estate Planning will discuss the role of campuses as landlords in the commercial leasing context, including:

Pre-planning considerations to think about before beginning negotiations with a potential tenant;

Post-execution communications and lease management;

What to include in a well-crafted letter of intent;

Coordination with other departments on campus;

Lease provisions of particular concern in the higher education context;

Terms to pay particular attention to, and more.

Who Should Attend?This is an introductory-level webinar which will be of particular interest to counsel who are new to higher education law or new to real-estate work.

Speakers

Hailyn Chen

Hailyn Chen
Co-Managing Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson

Hailyn Chen is a Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.

Ms. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom, with a practice focused on complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

Ms. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School, an elite boarding school in Ojai, California. In 2021, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and, in 2020, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.

Ms. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS), the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76,000 lawyers around the world.

She has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer, the Daily Journal, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health, Athletic Medicine, and Academic Medical Centers,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.

Ms. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters, including personal injury, First Amendment, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation, she advises on complex policy, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.

She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Program Schedule

TimeSession Topic12:00 P.M. ETWelcome; Introduction and ScopeCommercial v. ResidentialPre-Lease ConsiderationsQuestions & AnswersLetters of Intent and LeasesQuestions and Answers Special Considerations for Very Small and Very Large EntitiesDay-to-Day Management of Lease RelationshipsFinal Questions & Answers1:30 P.M. ETClosing Remarks

CLE

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Spring 2023 CLE Workshop: Higher Education Discrimination Law
2023-03-22 00:00 - 2023-03-24 23:59 | Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, CA, San Diego, CA

Yes We Can: Approaches to Post-Tenure Faculty Review
2023-03-16 12:00 - 13:30
Webinar

Time to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators

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About this Event

The vast majority of tenured faculty members offer vital contributions throughout their careers to advance the teaching and research missions of their colleges and universities. However, addressing the performance and conduct issues posed by a small number of tenured faculty in a shared governance framework often requires a large-scale coordinated effort on the part of counsel, provosts, department chairs, and a cadre of other institutional leaders. The result is usually limited success in minimizing the legal and reputational risks posed by an underperforming or misbehaving faculty member – or worse— messy and public complaints, litigation, and internal cultural strife.

Join us for a 90-minute webinar in which two expert NACUA member attorneys will discuss post-tenure faculty review, including:

Legal developments over time that have impacted the institution of tenure that have both contributed to the challenge of problematic tenured faculty members and recently provided an opportunity to address this issue;

Costs and benefits of instituting a post-tenure review policy or system that balances risk mitigation, due process, and respect for academic freedom;

Practical considerations such as building internal stakeholder support;

And employment legal implications including conducting defensible reviews, unionized faculty, and more.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar will be of particular interest to counsel who advise on faculty matters, academic affairs, employment law, and institutional policy development and management, as well as institutional colleagues in the Offices of the Provost, Faculty Affairs, and Academic Affairs.

Speakers

Hailyn Chen

Hailyn Chen
Co-Managing Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson

Hailyn Chen is a Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.

Ms. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom, with a practice focused on complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

Ms. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School, an elite boarding school in Ojai, California. In 2021, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and, in 2020, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.

Ms. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS), the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76,000 lawyers around the world.

She has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer, the Daily Journal, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health, Athletic Medicine, and Academic Medical Centers,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.

Ms. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters, including personal injury, First Amendment, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation, she advises on complex policy, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.

She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Program Schedule

TimeSession Topic12:00 P.M. ETWelcome & IntroductionHow Did We Get Here and Where are We Now?Implementing a Post-Tenure Review ProcessQuestions & Answers We Have a Process – Now What?Questions and Answers 1:30 P.M. ETConclusion

CLE

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Navigating the World of Affiliated Entities
2023-02-27 12:00 - 14:00
Webinar

Time to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators

Event Details

About this Event

Affiliated entities are part of the fabric of college and university operations. Whether we are talking about alumni foundations, athletic boosters, or real estate partnerships, colleges and universities often create affiliates to advance institutional mission while reducing risk exposure, managing financing or tax issues, and reducing operational barriers that might otherwise inhibit institutional goals. Of course, counsel must devote a great deal of thought to structuring these affiliates and managing the associated legal and practical challenges. Join us for a 2-hour webinar in which two expert NACUA member attorneys will discuss:

Reasons for creating affiliated entities;

Considerations in structuring affiliated entities, including special governance considerations;

Examples of where and how affiliates are used;

Legal and operational challenges and risks;

Unique issues related to joint ventures, research affiliates, and traditional foundations;

And more.

Who Should Attend? This webinar will be of particular interest to counsel who advise on business and transactional issues, University business officers, and NACUA members employed by institutional affiliates.

Speakers

Hailyn Chen

Hailyn Chen
Co-Managing Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson

Hailyn Chen is a Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.

Ms. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom, with a practice focused on complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

Ms. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School, an elite boarding school in Ojai, California. In 2021, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and, in 2020, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.

Ms. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS), the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76,000 lawyers around the world.

She has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer, the Daily Journal, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health, Athletic Medicine, and Academic Medical Centers,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.

Ms. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters, including personal injury, First Amendment, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation, she advises on complex policy, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.

She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Program Schedule

TimeSession Topic12:00 P.M. ETIntroductionsWhy form an affiliated entity?Structuring an Affiliated EntityHow do colleges and universities use affiliated entities?Challenges and RisksQ&A Finance Corporation IssuesResearch Foundation Issues Traditional Foundation Issues Real World ExamplesQ&A2:00 P.M. ETConclusion

CLE

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If you are a member and couldn’t attend live, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time, but may not be copied, posted, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution, organization, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here.

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At The Top of Your Feed: Social Media Issues on Campus
2023-02-06 12:00 - 14:00
Webinar

Time to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators

Event Details

About this Event

Students, faculty, and staff have long used social media to engage with one another and with the world outside of the institution. However, the expanding reach and evolution of social media platforms has challenged the law – and campus counsel – to keep pace. One post can unleash severe ideological clashes among faculty, students, and the community in a contentious political climate. A new reel can give rise to an entire workstream focused on student-athletes’ ability to use social media for commercial purposes. A five-word Tweet can lead to a five-month legal saga with the growing world of influencers providing social media commentary as the institution grapples with sensitive issues. These are just some of the complex situations arising from social media at colleges and universities. Join us for this 2-hour webinar where presenters will explore legal developments related to social media issues, including:

Advice for developing and revising social media policies,

Updates on recent case law in the social media space, including guidance on distinguishing “on-campus” from “off-campus” speech and on addressing and/or disciplining social media behavior by students or employees,

Pointers for navigating cancel culture when it targets faculty or staff, and

Pros and cons of institutional responses to disputes playing out on social media, including considerations of reputational risk.

Who should attend?

This webinar will be of interest to lawyers employed by colleges and universities within the Office of General Counsel and in various roles throughout the institution, outside counsel, and senior institutional leaders. fficers and administrators, and major gifts officers, will also find this webinar valuable.

Speakers

Hailyn Chen

Hailyn Chen
Co-Managing Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson

Hailyn Chen is a Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.

Ms. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom, with a practice focused on complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

Ms. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School, an elite boarding school in Ojai, California. In 2021, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and, in 2020, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.

Ms. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS), the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76,000 lawyers around the world.

She has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer, the Daily Journal, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health, Athletic Medicine, and Academic Medical Centers,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.

Ms. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez

Sonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters, including personal injury, First Amendment, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation, she advises on complex policy, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.

She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Program Schedule

TimeSession Topic12 :00 P.M. ETWelcome and IntroductionCase Law UpdateAdvice for Developing and Revising Social Media PoliciesQ&AScenarios Q&A2:00 P.M. ETConclusion

CLE

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Webinar Recording

Members who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar.

If you are a member and couldn’t attend live, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time, but may not be copied, posted, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution, organization, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here.

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Winter 2023 Virtual CLE Workshop: Student Affairs
2023-01-25 00:00 - 2023-01-27 23:59 | Virtual

Fall 2022 CLE Workshop: Sponsored Research and Technology Transfer
2022-11-02 00:00 - 2022-11-04 23:59
INSTRUCTORS

Abbey Richards

Abbey Richards
Senior Counsel

Abbey V. Richards has been part the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel at the George Washington University since 2003, starting as a law clerk and working her way through the ranks to her present Senior Counsel role. She regularly advises senior leaders on a wide range of issues impacting higher education. Her principal areas of focus include non-profit governance and compliance, business and banking transactions, non-profit taxation, international issues, conflicts of interest, research compliance, and general contract review. In addition, for several years she taught a course in Higher Education Law and Politics at Drexel University’s Graduate School of Education.

Abbey joined NACUA in 2005. During this time, she has served on several committees including multi-year terms on the Committee on Finance and Audit, the Committee on Strategic Planning, the Committee on Membership and Member Services, and the Committee on Program for Annual Conference. She has also spoken several times at NACUA conferences and workshops.

Abbey holds a B.A. in International and Area Studies from the University of Oklahoma and both a J.D. and an M.A. in International Affairs from the George Washington University.

2022 Annual Conference
2022-06-26 00:00 - 2022-06-29 23:59 | Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, PA

2022 Lawyers New to Higher Education Workshop
2022-06-25 00:00 - 2022-06-26 23:59 | Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL

Spring 2022 CLE Workshop: Higher Education Employment Law
2022-03-29 00:00 - 2022-03-31 23:59
INSTRUCTORS

2022 Virtual General Counsel Institute
2022-02-04 00:00 - 2022-02-06 23:59
