In April of 2024, the Department of Education approved New Title IX rules, which are scheduled to take effect on August 1, 2024. Our firm is closely monitoring ongoing challenges to these new rules in court, and is working hard to...
The June 2022 student discipline case Vengalattore v Cornell University illustrates what federal appeals Judge Jose Cabranes has called “Star Chamber” like and “deeply troubling aspects” of college and...
Federal appeals Judge Jose Cabranes published a June 2022 concurring opinion in the campus sexual-misconduct discipline case Vengalattore v Cornell University, calling campus due process a matter “of life and death for our...
What do you do if you’re in trouble for something you wrote about a professor in an anonymous survey or at an online review site? Shouldn’t happen, right? After all, that’s the whole point of anonymity....
In late March, 2022, the parents of three eighth-graders in the Kiel, Wisconsin Area School District were notified of a Title IX complaint and pending investigation. It alleged the boys sexually harassed another student. The...
As online learning becomes the new normal, algorithm-based technology is an increasingly important tool for colleges to monitor cheating. Anti-plagiarism apps have long been used for written submissions, but the last year has seen...
You lied to your professor or school advisor about having an illness or disability, and now the school has found out. That’s not a good situation. Making false excuses for falling behind on academic assignments, requesting...
Reports from higher education journals like the widely read Inside Higher Ed document a rise in student worker strikes at college and university campuses. The Inside Higher Ed stories describe strikes at Indiana University and...
Catfishing Your Classmate: Can You Get in Trouble?
July 12, 2022
The term catfishing became popular in 2010 with the release of a movie of the same name. The idea is that a person enters into some kind of relationship with someone they have met over the internet. When they finally meet the...
Taking the LSAT is a sometimes stressful, sometimes harrowing experience for hopeful law students to complete. A high score on the LSAT can mean the difference between a career in Big Law, easier access to high profile cases...
In April of 2024, the Department of Education approved New Title IX rules, which are scheduled to take effect on August 1, 2024. Our firm is closely monitoring ongoing challenges to these new rules in court, and is working hard to...
Cheating is one of the most severe violations in medical school, and the consequences can quickly destroy a bright career. However, sometimes professors devise plans to make plagiarizing students feel worse than liars,...
The journal Inside Higher Ed, widely read among college and university faculty, staff, and administrators, reports a story about alleged Title IX and Clery Act violations at Liberty University. Title IX addresses sexual assaults...
Writing a thesis is a daunting process, whether you are an undergraduate facing a five-page paper or a graduate student staring down the barrel of a 150-page these. Some students may find they cannot rise to such high standards...
In April of 2024, the Department of Education approved New Title IX rules, which are scheduled to take effect on August 1, 2024. Our firm is closely monitoring ongoing challenges to these new rules in court, and is working hard to...
In 2021, a tenured professor found himself once again in the administration’s crosshairs for remarks his students find offensive. Shortly thereafter, the university reopened a 2018 case involving the professor on an...
Extreme Student Activism on Campus
June 27, 2022
American college students are known for their commitment to political, social, and cultural issues. Their activism on campus takes many forms: protests, demonstrations, boycotts, strikes, letter-writing campaigns, social media...
Especially when we are young, we all make mistakes – we might drink too much, say the wrong thing, or do something dangerous we later regret. But certain slip-ups are a bigger deal than others and can have far-reaching effects...
Surviving medical school is one of the toughest hurdles a future doctor will face, and most enter their programs expecting to be challenged as they have never been challenged before. Medical students undergo rigorous coursework...
Title IX law is in constant flux, with new rules and legal challenges continuing to shape how schools, colleges, and other institutions handle sex-based misconduct and discrimination. Our firm closely monitors these...