Everbright has long provided comprehensive legal services to education administrative authorities and their affiliated public institutions, higher education institutions, vocational schools, primary and secondary schools, special education schools, schools for children of foreign personnel (international schools), and education enterprises. We have developed systematic expertise in education administration, law-based school governance, and education dispute resolution. Our team is deeply familiar with the institutional logic underlying education regulation, school governance, and teaching activities. We consistently handle complex and sensitive matters, including student management and disciplinary actions, labor and personnel issues, academic integrity and research achievements, and campus safety.

Leveraging the firm’s synergistic capabilities across Government and Public Affairs, Dispute Resolution, Labor and Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Technology and Data, Real Estate and Construction, and Liquidation and Restructuring, Everbright provides end-to-end support for complex, sensitive, or socially impactful matters in the education sector. Our services cover institutional framework development, day-to-day operations, major incident response, and dispute resolution, translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable institutional arrangements and solutions.

Main service contents：

● Education Administration and Policy Support
Legality review of educational policies, normative documents, and major administrative decisions; educational administrative licensing, regulatory enforcement, government information disclosure, administrative reconsideration, and administrative litigation; general legal counsel for education authorities and their affiliated public institutions.

● School Governance and Student Affairs
Drafting and review of school charters, decision-making procedures, authorization management, contract management, and compliance mechanisms; legal support for admissions, student status management, degree conferral, examinations, awards and honors, educational discipline, disciplinary actions, and student appeals and hearings; institutional development for law-based school governance and legal compliance training.

● Labor, Personnel, and Teachers' Professional Ethics
Recruitment, employment, performance assessment, disciplinary actions, and dismissal of faculty and staff, along with related labor and personnel disputes; personnel management in public institutions, development of teachers' professional ethics and conduct, and the protection of teachers' rights and interests.

● Educational Cooperation and Operational Management
Joint educational programs, school-enterprise cooperation, and industry-academia-research collaborations; procurement, infrastructure construction, leasing, fee collection, advertising, and state-owned asset management; establishment, day-to-day operations, and regulatory compliance for private schools, schools for children of foreign personnel, and educational training institutions.

● Research, Intellectual Property, and Educational Digitalization
Research project management, ownership and commercialization of academic/technological achievements, academic integrity, publishing, copyright, and trademark matters; cybersecurity, data security, and personal information protection in smart campuses, online education, and the application of artificial intelligence.

● Campus Safety and Major Incident Response
Protection of the rights and interests of minors and special education students; handling of student bullying, student injuries, and other campus safety incidents; fact-finding investigations, emergency response, home-school communication, public relations and crisis management, and regulatory communications.

● Educational Restructuring and Dispute Resolution
Negotiation, mediation, arbitration, litigation, and enforcement of disputes concerning educational administration, contracts, labor and personnel, educational training, intellectual property, and torts; establishment, change of sponsors, demerger, merger, termination of operations, liquidation, and restructuring of private schools and educational institutions.