Lisa T. Scruggs

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Education Law
  Policy Engagements: Served as regulatory counsel for majority investment in PreK-Higher Education holding company with transaction value of more than $110 million.
  Served as regulatory counsel for M&A transactions of PreK-12 for-profit schools involving more than 230 locations with total combined enterprise value of more than $1.3 billion.
  Represent single site charter school in consolidation with charter school network.
  Served as regulatory counsel for private school network change of ownership.
  Counseled K-12 private
  charter schools on regulatory, accreditation
  authorizer approval, student, parent
  employment issues.
  Assisted client with establishment of college bridge degree program involving private secondary school with International Baccalaureate program.
  Advised clients
  performed due diligence on charter law aspects of the client's acquisition of multi-million charter school portfolio.
  Worked with charter school facing a non-renewal recommendation to help it obtain a full five-year renewal of its charter.
  Conducted multi-state regulatory compliance review for Fortune 1000 company following acquisition of fast-growing K-12 virtual education provider.
  Performed industry analysis for Fortune 1000 company
  reviewed performance of major education management organizations.
  Counseled charter school on feasibility
  legal implications of multi-state combination within charter network
  advised local school board
  negotiated revisions to comprehensive management services agreement.
  Counseled national reform organization on advocacy related to reform of teacher credentialing laws
  regulations.
  Performed multi-state statutory
  regulatory review for national education reform organization
  revised st
  ard performance agreement templates for use with school districts across the United States.
  Served as replication counsel
  prepared analysis of laws
  regulations in various states applicable to system of for-profit private schools for rapidly growing provider of individualized education programs.
  Analyzed federal, state
  local laws
  regulations relating to provision of discounted Internet service to public school children
  their families.
  Prepared
  negotiated agreements between education providers
  state
  local education agencies.
  Counseled national school transportation company on procurement
  bid protest issues.
  Complex Litigation: Prepared
  defended administrative decisions made by the Illinois State Charter School Commission in state trial
  appellate court.
  Successfully defended client in multiple lawsuits filed in Illinois state trial courts.
  Appointed Special Assistant Attorney General in Illinois
  assisted with negotiation of consent decree for policing reform in City of Chicago.
  Defended national education organization against improper third party subpoenas.
  Litigated claims on behalf of national school transportation company.
  Prepared amicus briefs in federal court, including U.S. Supreme Court, on behalf of national education organizations in cases involving constitutional law
  federal statutes.
  Successfully defended local school council in arbitration of administrator's challenge of local school council personnel decision.
  Successfully defended NYSE REIT in a lawsuit involving nuisance
  unfair business practice claims brought by a subprime mobile home mortgage lending company.
  Represented NYSE REIT in suits involving unfair business practice claims in California.
  Represented NYSE REIT at trial of federal constitutional challenge of rent control ordinances in California.
  Secured dismissal of arbitration for Fortune 10 company in a license agreement contract dispute.
  Successfully defended Fortune 250 company in multiple class actions involving warranty
  consumer fraud claims in California
  Illinois.
  Pro Bono: Settled constitutional legal challenge to school funding system in Illinois.