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 Myanna

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.

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Meet Myanna

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. 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.

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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

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

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.

Testimonials

What my clients say

I am an associate professor. I can say that because Myanna Dellinger successfully resolved a dispute between myself and my university over my application for tenure and promotion. Summer 2024, I was awarded tenure but not promoted. The reasons given were clerical at best, but that argument did not move the needle on an appeal through the university's conventional channels. I contacted Myanna Dellinger in December 2024 because of her location and her experience with contracts and academic contexts. She became immediately invested, working with sensitivity to my time and finances as well as to the delicacy of bringing a lawyer to the table of my place of current employment. She read all relevant materials, even those I had not easily organized, and drafted clear, persuasive letters, keeping the dispute out of court. Even during the fires in Los Angeles, she remained attentive to the case and excited about its resolution. In mid-February, we achieved a successful resolution of promotion with back pay. I am 100% sure that the university would not have come to this decision without the polite but determined spectre of liability Ms. Dellinger presented. Hiring her was a great decision, and I'm grateful for her work.

Associate Professor

Thanks to Ms. Dellinger's diligent efforts and steadfast advocacy, I am immensely relieved to have successfully resolved the matter and obtained the rightful compensation for the damages suffered. I wholeheartedly endorse Ms. Dellinger's legal services to anyone in need of expert representation and support in navigating complex legal challenges. She is an invaluable asset, and I am profoundly grateful for her exceptional assistance.

Yoko. K

My experience working with Myanna Dellinger, JD, PhD has been excellent. While my situation is not yet resolved, Dr. Dellinger's approach has been detailed oriented, focused, thoughtful, and compassionate. As someone who has worked in academia, she understands the unique environment of higher education and brings keen insights to our conversations. Dr. Dellinger is also grounded and aware of what approach works best. Having her on my side makes my current situation bearable.

Anonymous Tenured Professor

Testimonials

What my clients say

I am an associate professor. I can say that because Myanna Dellinger successfully resolved a dispute between myself and my university over my application for tenure and promotion. Summer 2024, I was awarded tenure but not promoted. The reasons given were clerical at best, but that argument did not move the needle on an appeal through the university's conventional channels. I contacted Myanna Dellinger in December 2024 because of her location and her experience with contracts and academic contexts. She became immediately invested, working with sensitivity to my time and finances as well as to the delicacy of bringing a lawyer to the table of my place of current employment. She read all relevant materials, even those I had not easily organized, and drafted clear, persuasive letters, keeping the dispute out of court. Even during the fires in Los Angeles, she remained attentive to the case and excited about its resolution. In mid-February, we achieved a successful resolution of promotion with back pay. I am 100% sure that the university would not have come to this decision without the polite but determined spectre of liability Ms. Dellinger presented. Hiring her was a great decision, and I'm grateful for her work.

Associate Professor

Thanks to Ms. Dellinger's diligent efforts and steadfast advocacy, I am immensely relieved to have successfully resolved the matter and obtained the rightful compensation for the damages suffered. I wholeheartedly endorse Ms. Dellinger's legal services to anyone in need of expert representation and support in navigating complex legal challenges. She is an invaluable asset, and I am profoundly grateful for her exceptional assistance.

Yoko. K

My experience working with Myanna Dellinger, JD, PhD has been excellent. While my situation is not yet resolved, Dr. Dellinger's approach has been detailed oriented, focused, thoughtful, and compassionate. As someone who has worked in academia, she understands the unique environment of higher education and brings keen insights to our conversations. Dr. Dellinger is also grounded and aware of what approach works best. Having her on my side makes my current situation bearable.

Anonymous Tenured Professor

Testimonials

What my clients say

I am an associate professor. I can say that because Myanna Dellinger successfully resolved a dispute between myself and my university over my application for tenure and promotion. Summer 2024, I was awarded tenure but not promoted. The reasons given were clerical at best, but that argument did not move the needle on an appeal through the university's conventional channels. I contacted Myanna Dellinger in December 2024 because of her location and her experience with contracts and academic contexts. She became immediately invested, working with sensitivity to my time and finances as well as to the delicacy of bringing a lawyer to the table of my place of current employment. She read all relevant materials, even those I had not easily organized, and drafted clear, persuasive letters, keeping the dispute out of court. Even during the fires in Los Angeles, she remained attentive to the case and excited about its resolution. In mid-February, we achieved a successful resolution of promotion with back pay. I am 100% sure that the university would not have come to this decision without the polite but determined spectre of liability Ms. Dellinger presented. Hiring her was a great decision, and I'm grateful for her work.

Associate Professor

Thanks to Ms. Dellinger's diligent efforts and steadfast advocacy, I am immensely relieved to have successfully resolved the matter and obtained the rightful compensation for the damages suffered. I wholeheartedly endorse Ms. Dellinger's legal services to anyone in need of expert representation and support in navigating complex legal challenges. She is an invaluable asset, and I am profoundly grateful for her exceptional assistance.

Yoko. K

My experience working with Myanna Dellinger, JD, PhD has been excellent. While my situation is not yet resolved, Dr. Dellinger's approach has been detailed oriented, focused, thoughtful, and compassionate. As someone who has worked in academia, she understands the unique environment of higher education and brings keen insights to our conversations. Dr. Dellinger is also grounded and aware of what approach works best. Having her on my side makes my current situation bearable.

Anonymous Tenured Professor

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