Summer Retreat in Seattle
Five days, forty hours, twenty-four seats. August 9 to 13, 2027. Referral or sponsor required.
Learn moreWe investigate fairly, advise clearly, and build compliance programs that hold
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.
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Practice
The ways institutions put us to work
Three kinds of work. A matter you are already in, a seat that needs covering, or capability you want built before the next one arrives.
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Casework
A matter has already happened. Someone has to run it, hear it, or review it.
InvestigationsInvestigation takeoverHearing officer and decision makerAppeals reviewExpert witness services
All casework02
Coverage and program
The seat itself, or the machinery behind it, before a matter arrives.
Fractional leadershipInterim coveragePolicy and process designMandatory reporting designDigital accessibility programClery Act complianceOCR matter supportCompliance review and audit readiness
All coverage03
Training and tools
What your people learn, and what they work from once we are gone.
Certified trainingCustom institutional trainingBoard and governance trainingCertifications, bootcamps, retreatsThe PlaybooksKnowledge HubAdvisory Coffee TalksOnePointe
All trainingWho we serve
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.
Learn moreThe 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.
Compare all five20 U.S.C. § 1681 · 34 CFR Part 106
Title IX
Sex discrimination and sex-based harassment in education programs receiving federal funds.
Learn more42 U.S.C. § 2000d · 34 CFR Part 100
Title VI
Discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in federally funded programs.
Learn more42 U.S.C. § 2000e · 29 CFR Part 1604
Title VII
Employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation by covered employers.
Learn more42 U.S.C. § 12101 · 29 U.S.C. § 794
ADA / Section 504
Disability access, accommodations, grievance process, and digital accessibility.
Learn more20 U.S.C. § 1092(f) · 34 CFR § 668.46
Clery Act
Campus crime reporting, timely warnings, and the annual security report.
Learn moreThe intersections are where files fail
When more than one governs
A single course of conduct can be Title VI and Title IX at once, and analyzing only the more familiar one is the most common way an institution ends up with an incomplete record.
Learn moreInstitutions define the future. We help strengthen them.
The Learning Institute
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.
Advanced Title IX Investigator Certification
Evidence, empathy, and procedural mastery. Built 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.
Learn moreThe Playbooks
Four volumes covering the frameworks we practice in, written for the person holding the seat rather than for a shelf. Licensed to the institution, not to a seat.
See all four volumes
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 Title VI Compliance Playbook
Complaint intake, hostile environment claims, findings and remedies, and OCR coordination for race, color, and national origin.
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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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The Title VII Investigations Playbook
Harassment, discrimination, and retaliation investigations for institutional employers, with the procedural rigor employment matters demand.
Learn moreInsights
Analysis of the rules, rulings, and resolution agreements that shape compliance work, written for the people who carry it.
Title IX •
The restored Title IX rule is defined by what it leaves out
On September 29, the Department of Education formally repealed the vacated 2024 Title IX amendments and restored the prior text across 23 sections of 34 CFR Part 106. The substance is in the deletions, and any policy drafted against the 2024 text needs a line-by-line check.
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Policy •
Civil rights conditions are moving from directives into grant terms
A federal court vacated the Department of Education's 2025 anti-DEI grant directive because it never defined what it prohibited. The Department's pending EDGAR proposal would write a more specific standard into the grant regulations themselves, and institutions should prepare for that version.
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ADA / 504 •
The Section 504 vacatur narrows the HHS rule, not its accessibility deadlines
A September 23 final judgment removed the integration provisions from the 2024 HHS Section 504 rule. The rest of the rule, including its web and mobile accessibility requirements, remains in effect for institutions that receive HHS funds.
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Title IX •
When the employee resigns, the Title IX obligation does not
OCR's September 17 resolution agreement with Virginia Beach City Public Schools is, at its core, a recordkeeping case. Its most portable lesson concerns what happens after an accused employee leaves.
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Compliance updates, training dates, and audit-ready guidance for higher education, PK-12, and workplace teams. The Fractional Digest monthly, the Coordinator's Brief quarterly.