Title IX Services.

Overview.

Title IX: Helping Institutions Prepare, Comply, and Respond.

Colleges and universities must be prepared to respond to Title IX allegations promptly while adhering to applicable federal Title IX regulations and institutional policies. BartlettJames is here to assist by providing the full range of Title IX services and a team of experienced professionals to support your institution.

BartlettJames understands the legal, financial, and reputational risks presented by Title IX allegations, particularly those that include egregious or high profile allegations. Our team is highly trained and experienced with the Title IX regulations and committed to understanding and following your institutional policies and procedures implementing the Title IX regulations. We bring years of judicial and Title IX experience to your campus and are prepared to help your institution remain compliant through each of our Title IX services.

Whether you need Title IX investigators, decision-makers, educators, advisors, appellate officials or informal mediators, the BartlettJames team is here to help. We are prepared to serve our client institutions with the responsiveness, accuracy, and professionalism necessary to address Title IX allegations and procedural requirements.

BartlettJames Title IX Solutions.

BartlettJames is available to provide services in each of the following areas of the Title IX compliance:

Title IX Investigations

The BartlettJames team of Title IX investigators is exceptionally well-equipped to conduct accurate and detailed investigations of Title IX complaints. All our Title IX investigators are attorneys who combine their decades of legal experience with years of work in the Title IX realm.  We conduct prompt, impartial, and professional investigations that meet the federal Title IX regulatory requirements.  We bring insight and experience critical to ensuring an unbiased, thorough investigation.

Learn more about our Title IX investigative services.

 

Title IX Appeals

The BartlettJames team includes five individuals who are immediately available to serve individually or as part of a panel of appellate officials based on the needs of the case and your institution’s policy. These team members have over six decades of experience as administrative law and/or criminal law judges and are comprehensively trained on the Title IX regulations. As appeal officers with legal and judicial experience, we provide an extra layer of protection for the institution by ensuring our work is defensible, accurate, and adheres to the Title IX regulations.

Learn more about how we can assist with Title IX appeals.

 

Title IX Hearings (Decision-Making)

BartlettJames is here to assist by providing highly experienced attorneys to serve as decision- makers in Title IX hearings. With years of judicial and higher education experience, we understand the Title IX regulations, including issues of relevance and when questions may or may not be asked of parties and witnesses.  We bring impartial decision-making, professional expertise, and exceptionally detailed, defensible work to your institution.  All our decision-makers are attorneys with no less than 20 to 30 years experience in the practice of law.  The majority of our decision-makers have served as judges in administrative proceedings or in criminal proceedings, or both.  They know the Title IX regulations; more importantly they know how to conduct a hearing that assures fairness to the parties and a legally defensible outcome for the institution.  We are committed to assuring that your institution is postured to survive any subsequent legal challenge to your process.

Learn more about how we can help with Title IX hearings.

 

Title IX Training

Our Title IX professionals have developed comprehensive training materials to meet the requirements of both the 2020 and the 2024 Title IX regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Education.  We are committed to supporting your institution through cost-effective in person or virtual training on the applicable regulations.  We also incorporate training on your institution’s implementing policies and procedures upon request.  Our training modules are designed and tailored to support your specific audience needs, including comprehensive training for Title IX coordinators, investigators, decision-makers, advisors, informal resolution facilitators, and appellate officials.  Our sessions are designed to prepare your Title IX team to fully understand the requirements of the Title IX regulations and to carry out a compliant, effective Title IX program.

See our full Title IX training services here.

 

Title IX Informal Resolution 

Our mediators are trained and prepared to assure impartiality, fairness, and objectivity.  When appropriate, the informal resolution process allows the parties to address their grievances in a less structured and more cost-effective setting than in a formal Title IX hearing.  Our team of highly experienced and certified mediators is available to facilitate a variety of alternative dispute resolution modules, including mediation, conciliation, negotiation, and restorative justice procedures.  Our facilitators frequently are able to assist the parties in resolving underlying interpersonal dynamics issues, resulting in a satisfactory conclusion for the parties and the institution, including establishment of work-place collegiality and effectiveness.

Learn more about how we help your college or university facilitate Title IX mediation and other Title IX informal resolution methods. 
 

Team.

James P. Pottorff, Jr.

Director, Higher Education Operations

Jim is our Higher Education Team Leader and a member of the BartlettJames Executive Committee.

K. Michele Allison-Davis

Executive Committee Member

Michele is a member of the BartlettJames Executive Committee and serves as a highly respected Title IX investigator. She provides a wealth of executive legal experience and seasoned judgment from her 24-year career in legal education and the myriad positions she held as a practicing attorney in other organizations. She has a distinguished background in diversity leadership and affirmative action matters. Michele is based in North Carolina.

Donna Wright

Donna is regarded as one of the leading Title IX Decision Makers in America. Donna trains and oversees the BartlettJames team of retired judges who provide hearing assistance around the nation. Donna’s enviable 35-year career as an attorney and Military Judge marks her as one of the true leaders of our organization. She is superbly experienced in administrative, environmental, personnel, and contract law. Donna is based in Florida.

Why Choose BartlettJames for Title IX Services?.

The BartlettJames team is recognized for discreetly and effectively serving universities and colleges in a wide variety of situations, including throughout every step of a Title IX proceeding, regardless of complexity.  We are committed to responsive and expeditious support at cost effective and competitive pricing.  We are prepared to handle any level of Title IX challenge your institution is facing.

 

Impartial Approach

The BartlettJames team serves as an unbiased, highly experienced, and trusted third party to assist your institution in response to any Title IX complaint. 

 

Experienced Team

With a combination of substantial judicial and Title IX experience, we bring the insight, professional approach, and precision that institutions need to handle Title IX cases effectively. 

 

Sensitive, Discrete, & Prompt

Our team understands the university setting, the responsibilities of university and college administrators, and the potential legal, financial, and reputational risks presented by Title IX allegations. We serve our client institutions with sensitivity, discretion, and expediency.

 

Get in Touch with Bartlett James Today 

Contact us today to discuss which Title IX services we can provide for your institution. We will always respond within one hour.

 

 

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1. Because the 2024 Title IX regulations have been enjoined from enforcement by federal court orders in 26 states, as well in 500 other institutions of higher education across most states, including in states not subject to the court orders pertaining to the 26 states, this discussion is based on the 2020 Title IX regulations. Given the recent re-election of Donal Trump, and the fact the 2020 regulations were issued by the Department of Education while he was president, it is likely the 2020 regulations, or a very close version of them, will be in force during the next presidential administration.  Consequently, and without commenting on the relative merits of the 2024 regulations vis a vis the 2020 regulations, this discussion uses the 2020 regulations as its basis.
 

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