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Your longtime client calls you one evening in great distress to tell you that she just got an expulsion notice for her 13 year old son – and the hearing is in two days.  Your college [...]

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By Attorney Winona W. Zimberlin Connecticut law allows public schools to expel students, up to a maximum period of one calendar year. Unless an emergency exists, a hearing is required. On school [...]

By Winona W. Zimberlin SCOPE The goal of this chapter is to provide an overview of the basic background required to represent students who are involved in disputes with schools. The rights of [...]

One of the best ways to help your lawyer help you in a higher education disciplinary case – or in any education case – is to make a written request to your school for a complete copy [...]

You can afford a lawyer to help you in your higher education disciplinary case. Private colleges won’t allow your lawyer into a hearing session, but that does not mean that you are not [...]

Most colleges will allow an appeal process if you lose a disciplinary hearing. They will typically allow a written appeal to another university official. There are limited grounds for such an [...]

College students often face disciplinary hearings because of conduct related to a disability. Sometimes students with a mental disabilty such as depression or anxiety will try to self- medicate [...]

Mistake Number One – Not telling the parents Over the next few weeks I will be blogging about the five biggest mistakes college students make when facing a disciplinary hearing. The first [...]

Failure to describe all your impairments to your doctors   You only have a few minutes with your doctor at every appointment. Your doctor is busy and may be in a rush. You are going in for [...]