Keffer Hirschauer issued the following announcement on Sept. 21.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – The global pandemic has had educational institutions scrambling to adjust operations to protect students, faculty, and other employees. In the midst of this, schools and universities have also had to review and often rework their Title IX investigative processes and procedures to comply with changes required under new Title IX regulations.
In a recent interview with The Indiana Lawyer, Title IX defense attorney Bradley Keffer at Keffer Hirschauer LLP stated that the new regulations affect Title IX procedures on a macro level, so it’s too early to know how significant their impact will be on Title IX procedures. However, the new rules do address multiple flaws in the ways schools implemented Title IX, and Keffer believes it is possible that the regulations will foster a more balanced approach to Title IX complaints, investigations, and adjudications.
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“Ultimately, time will tell if colleges and universities use this change in Title IX regulations to foster a more equitably and fair adjudication process, or, if they’ll use fight to keep as much of the old Title IX process as possible in their student and faculty policies.”
Bradley Keffer is a founding partner at Keffer Hirschauer LLP, an Indianapolis law firm focused on criminal defense, Title IX, and other cases in which protecting the rights of individuals is critical. The firm is grounded on the experience of Keffer and his colleagues as former deputy prosecutors, giving them critical insight into how to protect their clients’ rights in criminal, Title IX, and a variety of other cases.
For more information on the new Title IX regulation as discussed in The Indiana Lawyer article, click here.