Kalani Linnell Asroff

Kalani Linnell Asroff is an experienced education law practitioner with a keen understanding of the issues from both a legal and practical standpoint. She advises clients in matters involving special education, student civil rights, and operations/practices.

In the years before joining the firm, Kalani worked with law firms with significant education law practices. She also worked as an investigator and hearing officer for a consulting firm that advised educational institutions in major areas of legal compliance. She also worked as a teacher in a large Pennsylvania school district prior to attending law school. As such, she has a deep understanding of the challenges teachers and administrators face on a daily basis in terms of discipline, safety, and plan/goal implementation.

She is especially dedicated to the issue of Title IX compliance, including having knowledge of the currently applicable 2020 Regulations as well as historical and recent Title IX trends. She completes training annually with the Association of Title IX Administrators to serve her clients officially and compliantly in the roles of Title IX Coordinator, Title IX Investigator, Title IX Decisionmaker, and Title IX Appeal Decisionmaker. Additionally, she counsels other attorneys at the firm when they are called upon to conduct client informational gatherings on this topic. In 2020, she was invited to join a select group of attorneys providing Title IX guidance on the rules to the State University of New York. She also advised the Pennsylvania School Board Association on model policies relating to Title IX, and she regularly delivers live presentations on the subject to schools, professional associations, and fellow attorneys.

She maintains a constant commitment to professional development by seeking opportunities to learn, grow and share through client in-service training, writing legal alerts and articles on cutting-edge topics, and presenting live continuing legal education programs and seminars. She also works to share that knowledge with those aspiring to legal careers as an adjunct professor at Thomas Jefferson University, where she teaches legal research, writing, and oral argument to undergraduate pre-law majors.