{"id":28994,"date":"2020-02-16T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=28994"},"modified":"2020-02-25T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T16:06:00","slug":"peter-f-lake-discusses-increased-liability-litigation-in-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2020\/02\/16\/peter-f-lake-discusses-increased-liability-litigation-in-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter F. Lake discusses increased liability litigation in Higher Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:18px\">By Alexander C. Kafka<br><em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em><br>Feb. 16, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LAKE-PETER-orig.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Peter F. Lake\" class=\"wp-image-23471\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LAKE-PETER-orig.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LAKE-PETER-orig-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LAKE-PETER-orig-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><figcaption>Professor Peter F. Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colleges will have to tighten their belts amid the next recession and a subsequent mid-decade enrollment drop of roughly 15 percent. But one place they might not want to cut is their general-counsel offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s because on top of a widening list of free-speech, mental-health, regulatory, and other legal concerns, the forthcoming era of austerity will usher in a slew of new issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve ever had to cope with the level of rightsizing we\u2019re about to in higher education,&#8221; says Peter F. Lake, a higher-education-law expert at Stetson University. 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