Expert legal support for professors facing tenure challenges.

Facing tenure and other academic employment challenges shouldn’t be overwhelming—you’re not alone. With my expert support, navigating the process becomes simpler, giving you the confidence to protect your career and secure your future.
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About us

Our experienced team combines legal expertise with personalized service.

Welcome to Professor Tenure Legal Support, where your career and rights are Myanna's top priority. Myanna brings unparalleled expertise in academic and contract law to protect and advocate for professors navigating tenure challenges.

Proven results with a trusted track record of success.

Clear, responsive communication every step of the way.

Your rights are safeguarded with expert legal protection.

Confidentiality you can trust, ensuring your privacy and security.

Meet Myanna

Ceren Kurt
Ceren Kurt
Academic promotion and tenure are protected by established procedural, contractual, and constitutional rights. Unfortunately, many academic institutions attempt to avoid these rights. If you are encountering problems with your promotion and/or tenure process, you have come to the right place. 

Myanna Dellinger, M.Sc., JD, PhD, is a practicing attorney and former tenured law professor working for several ABA-accredited law schools. She had to fight hard for tenure herself, but won. She knows first-hand how agonizing and difficult the journey towards tenure can be. This may even be the case despite little or no fault by the professor.

Myanna Dellinger

M.Sc., JD, PhD

Myanna now provides legal consultation for other professors who are unjustly being denied tenure or who have related academic disputes. For example, she helps professors maneuver the highly complex and procedurally difficult tenure process before problems arise, renders advice based on law and institutional requirements, edits application materials for legal and procedural clarity to meet institutional requirements, negotiates with department deans, provosts, general counsel, and/or university presidents. If you are denied tenure, she will help you navigate the appeals or reconsideration process at your institution to ensure the best chances of a favorable outcome. If you have exhausted your institution’s internal procedures, she can advise you on whether litigation makes sense, and represent you in court (in California). She will also help you explore options to reach a negotiated resolution, as that may be swifter, less adversarial, and may lead to the best outcome.
Ceren Kurt
Ceren Kurt
Myanna has been a member of the California bar since 2009.  Myanna is affiliated with David Frakt, a successful higher education lawyer and former law professor on the East Coast who has 30 years of legal experience.   When it makes sense for your case, these attorneys can team up to provide you with the benefit of their combined experience.   

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Services

Not many attorneys specialize in these areas.  Myanna is a highly experienced higher education lawyer, an attorney who represents professors, a lawyer for college and university faculty members, and tenure dispute lawyer.

Tenure guidance

Myanna provides comprehensive support to help professors start and navigate their tenure track journey. From understanding pitfalls to meeting time limits and requirements, Myanna ensures you're set up for success.

Tenure guidance

Myanna provides comprehensive support to help professors start and navigate their tenure track journey. From understanding pitfalls to meeting time limits and requirements, Myanna ensures you're set up for success.

Tenure guidance

Myanna provides comprehensive support to help professors start and navigate their tenure track journey. From understanding pitfalls to meeting time limits and requirements, Myanna ensures you're set up for success.

Academic promotion support

Myanna assists professors in achieving academic promotion and overcoming challenges along the tenure process. Myanna provides personalized strategies to protect and advance your academic career.

Academic promotion support

Myanna assists professors in achieving academic promotion and overcoming challenges along the tenure process. Myanna provides personalized strategies to protect and advance your academic career.

Academic promotion support

Myanna assists professors in achieving academic promotion and overcoming challenges along the tenure process. Myanna provides personalized strategies to protect and advance your academic career.

Tenure dispute advocacy

Facing tenure conflicts or premature separation? Myanna offers expert legal advocacy to protect your rights and resolve disputes effectively.

Tenure dispute advocacy

Facing tenure conflicts or premature separation? Myanna offers expert legal advocacy to protect your rights and resolve disputes effectively.

Tenure dispute advocacy

Facing tenure conflicts or premature separation? Myanna offers expert legal advocacy to protect your rights and resolve disputes effectively.

Institutional tenure expertise

Whether at a law school, university, or private or public college, Myanna specializes in tenure policies tailored to your institution. Myanna's experience ensures the best possible outcomes in diverse academic environments.

Institutional tenure expertise

Whether at a law school, university, or private or public college, Myanna specializes in tenure policies tailored to your institution. Myanna's experience ensures the best possible outcomes in diverse academic environments.

Institutional tenure expertise

Whether at a law school, university, or private or public college, Myanna specializes in tenure policies tailored to your institution. Myanna's experience ensures the best possible outcomes in diverse academic environments.

Policy and compliance

Myanna guides professors through tenure rules, regulations, and institutional policies to ensure clarity and compliance. Let Myanna help you navigate complex requirements with confidence.

Policy and compliance

Myanna guides professors through tenure rules, regulations, and institutional policies to ensure clarity and compliance. Let Myanna help you navigate complex requirements with confidence.

Policy and compliance

Myanna guides professors through tenure rules, regulations, and institutional policies to ensure clarity and compliance. Let Myanna help you navigate complex requirements with confidence.

Higher education law

Myanna's legal services extend beyond tenure to address broader issues in higher education law. Myanna advocates for professors in a variety of academic and institutional matters.

Higher education law

Myanna's legal services extend beyond tenure to address broader issues in higher education law. Myanna advocates for professors in a variety of academic and institutional matters.

Higher education law

Myanna's legal services extend beyond tenure to address broader issues in higher education law. Myanna advocates for professors in a variety of academic and institutional matters.

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Take the first step toward protecting your career—schedule a consultation with Myanna now.
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