Youth-Serving Organizations

Overview

Taylor English’s Youth-Serving Organizations group is dedicated to protecting and enhancing your passion for service. Our attorneys use their industry experience to help safeguard your ability to pursue your mission and serve your clients.

We regularly advise day care centers, camps, mentoring organizations, non-profits, schools and social welfare organizations that work with young people.

We understand that our clients face legal issues unique to their mission. Our attorneys frequently work with organizations to meet their social and financial goals by providing legal counsel on the following matters:

  • Compliance with state laws and licensing standards,
  • Defense of personal injury and abuse claims,
  • Contract disputes, defamation claims and other litigation,
  • Internal investigations,
  • Employment matters,
  • Non-profit governance,
  • Risk management, and
  • Tax issues.

“We look to Taylor English to provide a full range of services for our members. They understand the challenges of running a child care center and are our “go to” firm when our members have licensing issues and general litigation.”

- Carolyn Salvador, Executive Director, Georgia Child Care Association

Experience

Experience

  • Achieved summary judgment for defendant in copyright case involving speech therapy cards

    Defended educational products company in lawsuit alleging infringement of copyrights in cards for assistance with speech therapy. The court granted our motion for summary judgment, finding that there was no infringement of any copyright in the selection and arrangement of Plaintiff’s cards as a matter of law. Ristuccia v. Super Duper, Inc.

  • Solis v. Laurelbrook

    Successfully defended a private school against claims by the United States Department of Labor that its vocational program violated child labor laws. The favorable opinion from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals established precedent for all similar schools in the four-state circuit.

  • Litigation on behalf of day care centers

    Defense of day care centers throughout Georgia in licensing and general litigation matters.

  • Defense of youth-serving organizations

    Successful defense of camps and day care centers against personal injury claims, including claims of sexual assault against children in care.

  • Counsel for youth-serving organizations

    Legal advice for camps, day care centers, private schools, and mentoring groups in matters including mandated reporting requirements, employment issues, corporate matters, and state licensing rules.

  • ACLU action against Atlanta Public Schools

    Represented Atlanta Public Schools in favorably resolving a class action brought by the ACLU that raised federal and state constitutional and statutory claims with respect to the adequacy of education, procedures for assigning and disciplining students, and search practices at alternative high school.

  • Hecht v. Laurelbrook Sanitarium and School

    Represented the defendant, a Seventh Day Adventist school and sanitarium, against claims brought by the plaintiff under Tennessee’s workers’ compensation statutes. The defendant’s defense was based in part under the United States Constitution and the Tennessee Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

  • Corporate reorganization and convertible note offering

    Acted as counsel to Dew Learning in a corporate reorganization and recapitalization through which Dew Learning became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dew IT Holdings, LLC ("Holdings"), the former members of Dew Learning exchanged their interests in Dew Learning for membership interests in Holdings, and Holdings was capitalized by the sale of $2.5 million in convertible notes to its majority owners.

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