Bryan Perry, the new general counsel at Northern Illinois University, was educated in public schools and has spent most of his professional life working for public universities.“As I did more research about [NIU], I felt that a lot of my personal philosophy, and also how I practice law, really was in line with NIU and [NIU President] Dr. [Lisa] Freeman,” said Perry, who assumed his new position July 1.Perry previously worked at Morgan State University, a historically black school in Baltimore and his alma mater, where he …