Heidi Siegmund Adjunct Professor of Law

Phone: 540-458-8335

Email: hsiegmund@wlu.edu

Office: 487 Lewis Hall

Areas of Expertise/Classes Taught

Higher Education Practicum (with Bud Schill)

Education

BS, College of William & Mary

JD, University of Virginia

About

Heidi E. Siegmund is a Partner with McGuireWoods in Richmond, Virginia. Her practice focuses on a wide range of education and employment-related issues, and Heidi defends employers and educational institutions facing litigation in both federal and state court. Heidi also counsels employers on compliance with various federal and state laws and regulations, including Title VII, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Virginia Human Rights Act.

In addition, Heidi advises both public and private educational institutions on a variety of issues, including Title IX, Title VI, FERPA and privacy issues, tenure denial and revocation, Department of Education and/or Office of Civil Rights investigations, athletics compliance, contract negotiation and management, and faculty and student conduct matters.

Heidi also has experience advising clients on data privacy and intellectual property issues, and uses this experience to assist employers with matters such as ownership of intellectual property, licensing, trade secret protection, restrictive covenants, non-disclosure, and data rights.

Before joining McGuireWoods, Heidi clerked for the Honorable Robert E. Payne, United States District Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia. She also completed a judicial internship with the Honorable David J. Novak, United States Magistrate Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia.

Heidi earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia, where she served on the editorial board of the Virginia Law & Business Review. She teaches higher education law as part of the adjunct faculty at the Washington and Lee University School of Law.