Preventive Law for Schools and Colleges provides a comprehensive and comprehensible giude for managing legal risk in the real world of educational administration. Based on their more than fifty combined years of representing educational clients, the attorney-authors of Preventive Law provide step-by step guidance on how to...

• anticipate legal problems before they arise
• draft effective policies, procedures, and contracts to promote resolution of disputes on campus
• understand the basic elements of the law, what to do and what not to do for the many specific activities of your college-- both on or off campus
• develop concrete, effective strategies for preventing or minimizing adverse consequences
• work productively with legal counsel as a problem-solving team

Written to maximize readability and relevance, Preventive Law is a must-read for administrators, board members, personnel directors, risk managers, student affairs directors, affirmative action officers and lawyers who recognize that prevention is the only road to minimizing lawsuits and containing legal costs.

Key Features

• Clear non-legalistic discussions that focus on critical legal principles and trends busy administrators need to know
• Frequent references to concrete problems and typical educational institution scenarios
• Separate practice pointers with specific advice for problem prevention
• Model policies, contracts and other documents easily adaptable to your institution's specific needs

Desk Copies
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The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Preventive Law For Schools & Colleges / by Michael W. Prairie and Timothy K. Garfield

Published 2004 by School & College Law Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2003108965

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