For Students:
OGC doesn’t provide legal services directly to students, but you’re not on your own. Undergraduate and Graduate Student Government offer students Legal Counseling Services with outside legal counsel. For more information on their resources please visit this page.
If you have a concern you would like to report, the best place to start is Report & Response. That site also has a comprehensive listing of campus resources — including confidential options.
Our Work
OGC’s Student Life & Academic Affairs Practice Group provides legal advice and counsel to university schools, departments, and leadership on the wide range of issues that come with serving nearly 50,000 students across 23 schools and academic units.
We advise on:
- Civil Rights & Conduct
Discrimination, reporting requirements, campus safety, student misconduct, academic integrity, and organizational violations. - Accessibility & Wellbeing
Disability accommodations, health and counseling services, health leave processes, threat management, and student safety interventions. - Free Expression & Student Organizations
Matters involving student organizations, events, protests, and other campus activities, with a focus on free speech, compliance, and safety. - Housing and Campus Life
Campus housing, student programs, athletics, and youth-serving programs, including safety, compliance, and risk management. - Academics & Enrollment
Academic policies and processes—handbooks, accreditation, records, admissions, financial aid, academic progress, and dismissals. - Immigration & Global Engagement
Immigration matters, international student compliance, and policies related to global enrollment and partnerships. - National Security
Export control compliance, research security, and institutional engagement risks involving emerging technologies and countries of concern
For legal advice in these areas, unit leaders may contact OGC at (213) 740-7922 or gcoffice@usc.edu and request a Student Life & Academic Affairs attorney.