Joel Buckman is an education regulatory lawyer who helps clients comply with federal law and handle their most significant controversies and transactions. For more than a decade, Joel has focused on helping higher education institutions, technology companies, investors, and associations achieve practical, strategic solutions to legal challenges. One half litigation and advocacy, the other half regulatory compliance and advising, Joel Buckman’s practice focuses on helping colleges and universities achieve practical, strategic solutions to legal challenges. Joel advises and represents education institutions and associations, ranging from nonprofit and proprietary colleges and universities to public and private primary and secondary schools. Joel’s practice has involved a wide range of issues, including Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and Department of Justice (DOJ) civil rights investigations, research misconduct investigations, faculty and staff labor and employment issues, adjunct and full-time faculty unionization efforts, donor disputes and restricted gift compliance, Title IV compliance, federal and state privacy law compliance, and governance. While in law school, Joel worked in the Children’s Law Clinic on student discipline and special education matters, and was also an editor of the Duke Law Journal. Before joining the firm, Joel served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
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On 18 May 2020 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in an antitrust case challenging the association’s policy of limiting the compensation paid to student-athletes. The decision is the latest concerning the NCAA’s (...)
