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There’s an Important Court Ruling and New Title IX Guidance re: Prior Statements…Now What?

August 27, 2021

On August 24, the Office for Civil Rights released guidance addressing the Department of Education’s enforcement of the section of the regulations (34 C.F.R. 106.45(b)(6)(i)) regarding the prohibition against statements not subject to cross-examination.  Specifically, OCR states, "in accordance with the court's order, the Department will immediately cease

Top 10 Things to Know about OCR’s FAQs on the Title IX Regulations

July 21, 2021

Yesterday, OCR issued the long-awaited FAQs on the Title IX regulations.  The Q&A on the Title IX Regulations on Sexual Harassment was issued in the wake of the Department of Education announcing its intent to revisit the Title IX Regulations, with a target deadline of May of 2022 for

Title IX Regulatory Changes Forthcoming

June 24, 2021

The Department of Education has formally announced plans to issue a new Title IX regulation and indicated in an online regulatory database that it would publish the proposed rule in May of 2022. A reminder that the proposed rule is not the final rule, meaning that it will go through

Keep Moving

April 21, 2021

Title IX professionals knew this was coming. We expected to hear that there would be significant changes yet again in the Title IX world…but that doesn’t make it any less overwhelming.

May 6, 2020 feels like just yesterday. We were all furiously combing through 2000-plus pages of the “new” Title

Lessons From LSU

March 26, 2021

Years ago, I wrote a blog on the lessons learned from one University’s high profile external investigation into its handling of sexual assault cases.  Five years later, in the wake of the LSU investigation, these lessons remain relevant.

Early March, Husch Blackwell released its investigation into LSU’s handling of