Updates from the CEO

The latest update from Albert Roberson, on where the civil rights docket is heading this term.

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Institutions define the future. We help strengthen them.

Institutions carry an obligation that outlasts whoever is holding it. We hold civil rights compliance to the standard it will eventually be read against, for colleges, PK-12 districts, and workplaces. The stakes are high. The standard should be higher.

The frameworks we work in

Every engagement runs inside one or more of these five. Knowing which one governs a matter, and when more than one does, is the first decision in the file and the most commonly missed.

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20 U.S.C. § 1681 · 34 CFR Part 106

Title IX

Sex discrimination and sex-based harassment in education programs receiving federal funds.

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42 U.S.C. § 2000d · 34 CFR Part 100

Title VI

Discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in federally funded programs.

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42 U.S.C. § 2000e · 29 CFR Part 1604

Title VII

Employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation by covered employers.

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42 U.S.C. § 12101 · 29 U.S.C. § 794

ADA / Section 504

Disability access, accommodations, grievance process, and digital accessibility.

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20 U.S.C. § 1092(f) · 34 CFR § 668.46

Clery Act

Campus crime reporting, timely warnings, and the annual security report.

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Who we serve

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Higher education

Title IX, Title VI, and Clery Act obligations carried across a full institutional portfolio, from intake through resolution and OCR coordination.

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PK-12 districts

District-scale coordination on a dedicated PK-12 fee schedule, because the obligation does not scale with the budget.

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Workplaces

Title VII investigations, harassment and retaliation matters, and the policy architecture that keeps findings defensible.

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We investigate fairly, advise clearly, and build compliance programs that hold.

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What the civil rights docket is telling institutions right now.

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Policy

What “audit-ready” actually means

Why documentation and process discipline, not good intentions, are what survive an OCR review.

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Title IX

The first 24 hours of a Title IX complaint

Getting notice, supportive measures, and the initial record right before anything else moves.

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Title VI

Title VI is having a moment. Are your processes ready?

Ancestry, national origin, and shared-ancestry complaints are rising, and being scrutinized.

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ADA / 504

Section 504 vs. ADA: what PK-12 teams get wrong

The two overlap, but they are not interchangeable. Where districts most often slip.

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The Learning Institute

Where practitioners are made, not assumed.

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Certifications, bootcamps, and residential retreats for the people who hold the coordinator seat. The curriculum is built from the same casework the firm carries, which means the practice standards taught in the room are the standards applied in the field.

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Summer Retreat in Seattle

Five days, forty hours, twenty-four seats. August 9 to 13, 2027. Referral or sponsor required.

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Advanced Title IX Investigator Certification

Evidence, empathy, and procedural mastery. The firm's most requested credential for sitting investigators.

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Winter Retreat in Vail

Five days, forty hours, eighteen seats at 8,150 feet. January 17 to 21, 2028.

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Clery Act Compliance for Campus Safety

Campus security authorities, Clery geography, timely warnings, and the annual security report, for the people who have to produce it every October.

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Practice

Casework

The ways institutions put us to work.

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Investigations

Title IX, VI, VII, ADA and 504

Investigations

Investigation takeover

Matters already in progress

Investigation takeover

Hearing officer and decision maker

Higher education and PK-12

Hearing officer and decision maker

Appeals review

Independent of the original finding

Appeals review

Expert witness services

Litigation and hearings

Expert witness services

Coverage and program

Fractional leadership

Deputy, full seat, director

Fractional leadership

Interim coverage

Leave, vacancy, or surge

Interim coverage

Policy and process design

Grievance procedures and instruments

Policy and process design

Mandatory reporting design

Intake and escalation pathways

Mandatory reporting design

Digital accessibility program

The April 2026 rule and its timeline

Digital accessibility program

Clery Act compliance

ASR, timely warnings, daily log

Clery Act compliance

OCR matter support

Including resolution agreements

OCR matter support

Compliance review and audit readiness

Before anyone files

Compliance review and audit readiness

Training and tools

Certified training

In person and virtual

Certified training

Custom institutional training

Scoped to your frameworks

Custom institutional training

Board and governance training

Trustees and school boards

Board and governance training

Certifications, bootcamps, retreats

The Learning Institute

Certifications, bootcamps, retreats

The Playbooks

Four volumes, institutional license

The Playbooks

Knowledge Hub

Working library and templates

Knowledge Hub

Advisory Coffee Talks

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Advisory Coffee Talks

OnePointe

Separate site, onepointe.ai

OnePointe
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The Title IX Investigations Playbook

Intake through final determination in 240 pages. What the regulations require, and what defensible practice looks like.

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The ADA and Section 504 Coordinator's Playbook

Accommodations, documentation, digital accessibility, and the structural work that prevents complaints.

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Trust, operationalized

Work with us

Engagements begin with a scoping conversation. We look at the portfolio you are carrying, the exposure you are managing, and the seat you need covered, then we tell you plainly whether we are the right firm for it.

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