• The Title IX Evolution: Navigating the Expanded Terrain

    Event Details About this Event On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, released its latest Title IX regulations. As anticipated, the Final Rule makes several significant departures from the 2020 Rule, by expanding Title IX’s scope, including expanding the definition of sex-based discrimination and harassment, and broadening what triggers […]

  • Implementing Workplace Protections for Pregnant or Lactating Personnel

    Event Details About this Event The Pregnant Workers Fairness (PWFA) and Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) Acts were signed into law by President Biden on December 29, 2022. PWFA requires covered employers to provide reasonable accommodations for an employee’s known limitations correlated with pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so will cause the […]

  • The DOJ’s Final Rule on Digital Accessibility: Practical Considerations for Public Institutions and Changes on the Horizon for Private Institutions

    Event Details About this Event On April 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice issued its Final Rule regarding implementation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) across digital platforms, which codifies application of existing nondiscrimination requirements for services, programs, and activities to public postsecondary web-based services and mobile apps. This Rule […]

  • Back to School: Challenging Disability Issues in a Return to Campus

    Event Details About this Event With the beginning of a new academic year comes a wave of student disability accommodation requests and issues. As practitioners in this space know, these requests and issues grow more complex and challenging each year. Therefore, it is crucial that an institution’s departments communicate clearly and effectively to ensure fairness and […]

  • Election 2024: Voting & Political Campaign-Related Activities on Campus

    Event Details About this Event Since 2020, the legal landscape for student voting and elections, in addition to cultural expectations and sensitivities surrounding political campaign activity on campus and in the workplace, have shifted and evolved. As the country leaps into the final sprint to the November election, counsel must contend with a heightened level […]

  • Navigating Campus Activism: Legal Insights for University Protests

    Event Details About this Event As students, faculty, and staff head back to campus, colleges and universities around the country anticipate a continued presence of demonstrations and protest activities related to the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza and the upcoming presidential election.  Counsel must be prepared to advise on how to (1) protect the […]

  • The Law of Gender Identity on Campus

    Event Details About this Event The law pertaining to antidiscrimination protections for postsecondary students, faculty, and staff who identify as transgender, or whose gender identity is nonbinary, is complex. It is a combination of federal, state, and local laws, interpreted via inconsistent and occasionally conflicting jurisprudence across different jurisdictions, which is further complicated by regulatory […]