Deputy General Counsel
(860) 486-5796
Nathan (“Nate”) LaVallee serves as Deputy General Counsel to the University of Connecticut within the Office of the General Counsel, where he advises on a wide range of complex legal, regulatory, and strategic matters affecting the University.
Nate has more than 20 years of experience in public-sector and higher-education law, having spent the majority of his career as in-house counsel to New England’s two largest public flagship universities. His practice is heavily focused on developing and executing critical university strategies, agreements, and transactions necessary to address key business, governance, and compliance issues across large, decentralized institutions.
Nate has extensive experience in Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) and related intercollegiate athletics matters and regularly speaks nationally on NIL and emerging issues in higher education. His broader subject-matter experience includes regulatory and statutory compliance, legislative initiatives, FERPA, student discipline, public records and open-government laws, and other core higher-education legal matters.
Prior to joining UConn, Nate served as Associate General Counsel at the University of Massachusetts, where he handled the full spectrum of higher-education legal issues. Earlier in his career, he represented municipal and state agencies in a wide range of matters in state and federal courts, as well as before administrative agencies, commissions, and other regulatory bodies.