Title IX Training.

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.

Michele began her legal career with positions as an Associate Attorney General for the State of North Carolina in Raleigh, North Carolina, as a staff attorney for the United Auto Workers-General Motors Legal Services, as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Shreveport, Louisiana, and as a Supervising Attorney for The Public Law Center at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Married to a now-retired U.S. Air Force officer, she found herself moving to accompany her husband as his career required him to relocate around the country.

Settling into legal academia, Michele became the Assistant Dean of Admissions, Financial Aid, and Diversity Affairs at the Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana. There she served as the school’s diversity officer and routinely counseled students on diversity issues, complaints, and concerns while planning multicultural activities. She additionally advised the Law School Dean on diversity issues as they arose and drafted the Affirmative Action Statements for the ABA accreditation process, including a statistical analysis of student bodies regarding diversity. Michele also managed the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid while also serving as a member of the Administration, Staff, and Faculty Diversity Committee, as an advisor to the Black Law Student Association, and as an advisor to the Student Diversity Committee. She did this while managing an annual budget of more than two million dollars and meeting strategic recruitment and enrollment goals each year.

Michele received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She earned her Juris Doctorate from North Carolina Central University of Law in Durham, North Carolina, where she was an Honor Graduate and a member of the North Carolina Central University Law Review.

Rebecca is a nationally-recognized expert on legal matters pertaining to veteran's educational rights and trauma-informed, sexual-misconduct investigations. She has conducted numerous highly sensitive Title IX investigations. Rebecca is based in Louisiana.

Before law school, Rebecca was employed as a counselor to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking, and later as a victim’s advocate, for the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her extensive experience working with victims of domestic and sexual violence garnered her significant community recognition. Following law school, Rebecca worked at the Skagit County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in Mount Vernon, Washington, in both the civil and criminal divisions. Her experiences there included civil and criminal bench and jury trials, appellate advocacy in support of several serious felony convictions, and juvenile legislative advocacy, which earned her national media attention.

Rebecca also serves as the Communications Director for the Military Spouse J.D. Network, an attorney bar association for military spouses. Additionally, she is engaged in private practice serving military veterans seeking Veterans Affairs disability compensation benefits, and she is still a Senior Appellate Attorney for the Florida Guardian ad Litem Program. Finally, Rebecca is a volunteer through The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program where she represents veterans at no cost to them before the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

Rebecca has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Masters of Social Work from Tulane University, with a specialized certificate in disaster mental health. She has a Juris Doctorate with a certificate in International Law from Loyola College of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she competed on the national moot court team and earned induction into the Order of Barristers, while also serving as a member of the Maritime Law Journal.

Margaret has conducted countless Title IX investigations. The wisdom and experienced she earned during her highly-distinguished career routinely proves invaluable to our higher education clients. She enjoyed more than 30 years of service as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, as a renown legal educator and law school administrator, and as a staff member for a United States Senator. She has also served on multiple boards of directors and engaged in a private law practice representing clients before state and federal administrative agencies. Margaret is based in North Carolina.

For more than 30 years, Margaret served the Campbell University School of Law in myriad capacities. She taught a wide variety of subjects with immediate relevance to clients of BartlettJames, while also serving as the Associate Dean for Academic, Student and Administrative Affairs, as an Assistant Dean for External Relations, and as the founding Director of Campbell’s nationally-recognized Externship Program. Margaret has served as lead investigator in numerous Title IX investigations for numerous university clients. Likewise, she has presented Title IX educational programs to several higher education clients. She has also conducted specialized investigations into matters involving the sexual mistreatment of minors.

Of significant note, Margaret was appointed by the President, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina for five years—a position as the chief federal attorney for civil and criminal matters in 44 out of the 100 counties in North Carolina. Subsequent to that position, she has continued her federal work by serving in the National Association of Former United States Attorneys (NAFUSA) for the past three decades, including several terms on its Board of Directors and all the offices in its leadership chain, culminating with President in 2003-2004.

In addition to her work in legal education and as a United States Attorney, Margaret has also served for the past ten years on the North Carolina Rules Review Commission, including stints as the Chairman and First Vice-Chairman. The Rules Review Commission is the state agency created by the General Assembly to review and approve rules adopted by State of North Carolina agencies. She further serves or has served on multiple Boards of Directors for the North Carolina Bar Association and the Wake County Bar Association/10^th Judicial District Bar, while also serving on and chairing the Wake County Board of Elections. In recognition of her exemplary service to the State of North Carolina and her community, Margaret was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the most prestigious award conferred by the Governor of North Carolina.

Margaret received her undergraduate education at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and graduated, with Honors, from the Campbell University School of Law, currently in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she was a member of the Campbell University Law Review Editorial Board. Margaret also has engaged in graduate legal studies at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.