Hannah Dodge

Hannah Dodge is an Associate in the San Francisco office of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore where she advises independent schools and non-profits on a range of labor, employment, governance, and education matters. Hannah is experienced in providing advice and counsel on a range of matters, including drafting and revising employment, enrollment, and Head of School contracts; advising on student and employee discipline issues and misconduct investigations; and advising on employee leaves and accommodation issues.  Hannah also advises non-profit clients in areas of corporate governance and business and facilities, including drafting and negotiating contracts with third parties on behalf of clients. Hannah creates LCW’s monthly Private Education Matters newsletter.

Hannah also devotes a portion of her practice to conducting workplace investigations. Hannah has conducted investigations into allegations including mass shootings and violence in the workplace, as well as claims of harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.

Prior to her time at LCW, Hannah was a legal intern for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights where she performed data analysis on race discipline and restraint and seclusion data in regional elementary and secondary school districts for compliance reviews set by the U.S. Secretary of Education. In this role, she researched and wrote about the obligations of postsecondary institutions in accommodating students with food allergies.

Hannah obtained a dual degree in Education and Law from Boston College. At Boston College, she was a graduate research assistant in Education Policy, where she conducted several research projects on the intersection of education and law. One project involved research and interviews on the experience of Latinx law students in Bay Area, California law schools.