Civil rights compliance for colleges, PK-12 districts, and employers.

Investigations, fractional and interim coordinators, and training across Title IX, Title VI, Title VII, ADA and Section 504, and the Clery Act. Work that holds up when a court, an auditor, or an agency reads it.

What we do

Start from where you are

Institutions call us at one of four moments. Each one has a place to start, and most engagements add a second service once the first is underway.

Federal review

A federal agency is involved

A data request from OCR or the Justice Department, a Clery program review, or a resolution agreement to negotiate and carry out.

What we do

We work alongside your counsel through the request, the response, the interviews and site visits, and the monitoring that follows an agreement.

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Also

Not sure which one you are in? Many matters touch more than one. A scoping call sorts it out.

The work

What every engagement delivers

Whichever service you start with, these three come with it.

  1. A file that holds up

    Every decision documented with its reasoning, built to be read by a court, an auditor, or an agency.

  2. A named practitioner in the role

    Coverage by a licensed investigator with practitioner experience in higher education, PK-12, and the workplace.

  3. Instruments your team keeps

    Templates, checklists, and procedures licensed to your institution, not to one person.

Training and publications

Train your people

Certifications, retreats, and the Playbooks, built from the same casework the firm carries.

The Playbooks

Four volumes covering the frameworks we practice in, written for the coordinator doing the work rather than for a shelf. Licensed to the institution, not to one reader.

See all four volumes

The firm

Institutions define the future. We help strengthen them.

Practitioners
The people who do the work have held the coordinator role inside institutions, and they write the curriculum the Learning Institute teaches.
Alongside counsel
We are frequently engaged through or alongside general counsel. We are a compliance firm, not a law firm, and we say so in writing.
Portland, Oregon
Based in Portland, working with institutions across the country, in person and remotely.

Insights and news

What the civil rights docket is telling institutions

Analysis of the rules, rulings, and resolution agreements that shape compliance work, written for the people who carry it.

Scoping

Tell us what you are carrying.

A scoping call settles the frameworks, the fee basis, and the deadline.

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 role you need covered, then we tell you plainly whether we are the right firm for it.

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