School & College Legal Services of California is a duly established joint powers authority that was formed to provide high quality legal and labor relations services for community colleges, school districts, and county offices of education at a reasonable cost. Operationally, we combine the best features of private law firms and governmental law offices. Because we provide legal services exclusively for community colleges, school districts, and county offices of education, we have significant expertise in areas of law that directly relate to our clients. Our attorneys have over 200 years of combined experience in school and college legal and educational matters. We strive to provide high quality, cost-effective legal services in the areas of student rights and discipline, special education, personnel, discrimination complaints, collective bargaining, grievances, facilities issues, contracting and purchasing, real property, Brown Act and other governance issues, and other areas of education law.
We are strongly committed to the practice of preventive law. We help clients address issues proactively through frequent workshops, timely newsletters, useful templates, checklists, and other tools to ensure compliance and reduce legal costs.
All Client Memos
All Client Memo (August 4, 2023)
All Client Memo (March 1, 2023)
All Client Memo (April 25, 2022)
All Client Memo (August 31, 2021)
All Client Memo (August 3, 2021)
Upcoming Workshops
Why IEPs Go Bad (How to Avoid Conflict) (K-12)
September 25 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmHow to Respond to those Frequently Asked Questions: A legal overview of key issues when responding to student, parents, community, trustee, and administrator questions and requests. (K-12)
September 28 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pmManaging Public Disruptions at Board Meetings (K-12/CCD)
October 5 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am