Julie Liddell has devoted her career to helping people of all backgrounds find justice in the courts. She spent a decade in public service as staff attorney at the highest appellate courts in Texas and at the State Bar of Texas enforcing attorney ethics.

More recently, Julie has turned her efforts to helping parents and children fight for their health, wellness, and privacy against technology companies who are exploiting them for profit through compulsory education. To that end, she founded the EdTech Law Center (ETLC), a law firm devoted to helping families at the intersection of school and technology. ETLC is actively litigating numerous cases against major tech companies on the basis of privacy violations, deceptive trade practices, and defective products.

Although a young firm, ETLC has scored several early wins. In August 2024, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed an amicus brief in support of her position that schools may not act in lieu of parents in agreeing to bind children to arbitration with technology vendors, an argument that won the day on the company’s motion to compel arbitration. 

ETLC also survived a motion to dismiss in a major class action against one of the leading providers of education technology in the U.S. The Hon. James Donato ruled that children do have a right to privacy in their personal information—even and especially at school. In his words:

The complaint amply alleges that PowerSchool collects, for its own commercial benefit, data about public-school kids from information that the students share as part of their legally required education. Doing so without parental notice or consent, as is alleged, plausibly describes conduct that is “highly offensive to a reasonable person and . . . constitutes an egregious breach of the social norms.”

Cherkin v. PowerSchool Holdings, Inc., No. 24-cv-02706-JD, 2025 WL 844378, at *3 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 17, 2025) (internal citations omitted).

Julie understands that families should not be forced to choose between their right to an education and other fundamental rights. She is committed to helping end that current arrangement for the benefit of families in the U.S. and around the world.