Katherine Brodie

Partner and Education Team Lead @Duane Morris LLP

Washington, DC, US

Katherine D. Brodie is a co-lead of Duane Morris LLP\'s established education law and policy practice. Her practice is devoted primarily to the needs of higher education institutions (non-profit, public and proprietary), higher education associations, higher education companies, and investors in higher education. She has a keen interest in supporting institutions and their partners to effectively lead and adapt to the fast pace of change in the delivery of education services while maintaining high quality.Ms. Brodie’s experience includes, among other areas of the law, U.S. Department of Education Title IV student financial aid regulations and accrediting agency standards including substantive change (ownership and governance, program, location and other changes), buy/sell transactions, civil rights law including Title IX compliance and response, campus safety/Clery Act, marketing (federal and state misrepresentation prohibitions), distance education, governance, foreign school and overseas operations including study abroad programs, career pathways, affiliation and partnership agreements, and skills focused programs including coding boot camp and other short term courses. Her advice also includes compliance with U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Student Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), U.S. Department of Veterans (VA)/U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) education benefit, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funding, state education grant program, and other federal and state regulations and programs relevant to institutional operations. Because the needs of institutions are so diverse, she is often aided in her work by subject matter experts in the firm’s other disciplines including tax, real estate, immigration, corporate, and trial.

The George Washington University Law School

Doctor of Law (JD)

Bowdoin College

A.B.