General Counsel Services for Florida Charter Schools and Private Schools

If you are starting a charter school, operate several charter schools, provide services to charter schools as a charter management organization, or operate charter schools in other states and are thinking about coming to Florida, we can help you with general counsel services. We provide the same services to private schools. We have helped charter schools with legal matters in more than 30 Florida school districts.

To discuss general counsel services for a school or operator anywhere in Florida, call us at 850-567-8445 or fill in the message form on this page.

When does it make sense to contract for general counsel services? Usually when a school or operator is too small to justify a full-time general counsel or a legal department but can see questions coming: about state and federal law, the sponsor’s or school district’s requirements, regulatory compliance, employment and labor matters, reviewing and enforcing contracts, or licensing and administrative law. It may sound like a cliché, but advice at the start costs less than counsel called in after trouble arrives. Early advice from us tends to cost less than litigation by us, although we are very comfortable litigating when that is what a good result requires.

Our approach to general counsel work is to learn how you and your organization operate, so that our legal advice serves your plans. Where we can, we look for a lawful way to get you where you want to go: pointing out the legal obstacle in your path is only half the job, and the other half is finding a route around it. If you need specialized advice in an area our firm does not handle, we can help you find and work with the right counsel for it. Mr. Woodring has worked with or supervised hundreds of attorneys from Florida and around the country on varied matters, and that experience in managing legal work is a resource when we are your general counsel.

If general counsel services might suit your school or organization, let us talk it over. What an arrangement covers depends on who you are and what you need, so ask us what it would look like for you. You can call us at 850-567-8445 or email us at Info@woodringlawfirm.com.