Lathrop & Gage has a strong tradition of providing outstanding legal services to schools and universities throughout the Midwest. Click here for complete information regarding our education practice.  We offer a complete array of legal services as counsel for public schools and school districts, universities and other governmental and quasi-public bodies. We assist with charitable giving programs including the preparation of legal documents necessary for the design, planning and execution of successful deferred giving programs (e.g. charitable remainder trusts, gifts of stock of closely held corporations, life insurance)

We represent both large and small school districts and universities and understand the often conflicting demands which must be addressed within the context of decreasing resources, the increasingly stringent regulatory environment imposed by federal and state laws, and insistence on higher and higher levels of student achievement and staff accountability.  These and other competitive challenges facing school districts demand highly skilled administrators, supported by broad-based legal expertise which a multi-specialty firm such as ours is especially well-suited to provide.