Original Steptoe Steps in to Advise 16 Different Schools
In a unique and somewhat unusual arrangement, 16 colleges across the U.S. have all agreed that just one law firm—West Virginia-based Steptoe & Johnson PLLC—will provide legal services to their institutions. Just don't confuse the firm with its Washington, D.C.-based doppelgänger.
September 01, 2017 at 04:24 PM
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In a unique and somewhat unusual arrangement, 16 colleges across the U.S. have all agreed that just one law firm—West Virginia-based Steptoe & Johnson PLLC—will provide legal services to their institutions.
The Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), an Atlanta-based nonprofit that represents the interests of 16 liberal arts colleges across the southern U.S., decided that in an effort to drive down internal costs and streamline best practices, the colleges would all use Steptoe & Johnson, according to a report by Inside Higher Ed.
The agreement came about rather serendipitously, explained Steptoe partner Jim Newberry Jr., head of the firm's higher education practice and a former mayor of Lexington, Kentucky. In January 2016, Newberry had a chance encounter with Yale Law School graduate and current ACS president R. Owen Williams at The Counsel of Independent Colleges' Presidents Institute, the largest annual meeting of college and university presidents.
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