Consultants From The NCHERM Group, LLC Have Been Engaged as Expert Witnesses in Jameis Winston/FSU Lawsuit

NCHERM Group partners Brett A. Sokolow and W. Scott Lewis are serving as expert witnesses for the woman who says Florida State University ignored her allegations of rape against another student.  The incident, dating back to December 2012, involves allegations of a rape by Heisman Trophy winning FSU quarterback, Jameis Winston. FSU ignored notice of the assault and has only now — almost two years later — decided to hold a hearing under its Code of Conduct to determine whether Winston violated university policy by committing a sexual assault. As experts on campus conduct processes, The NCHERM Group determined that it was an appropriate time to announce the involvement of Sokolow and Lewis as experts for the victim.

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Van Brunt in USA Today on bullying in college

“I think it’s that perception (college) a blank slate,” Van Brunt says. “Once high school’s over it’ll be a whole new experience, but the problems don’t go away. These things don’t just disappear … I would argue they get worse because you’re adding stress … Why would that get easier not harder?”

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New York Magazine profiles Sokolow

“I just want the ones who did it to get in trouble and the ones who didn’t to not get in trouble,” he says before we part. “Is that so much to ask?”
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Al Jazeera America quotes Sokolow on CalArts

"Those should have resulted in additional charges and it's a reason to enhance the sanction," said Brett Sokolow, the president of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, who's advised colleges on their sexual assault policies for more than 15 years. "Abusers tend to violate no-contact orders." http://ow.ly/CNsSJ

The NCHERM Group Continues to Advocate for Affirmative Consent Policies in Colleges and Schools Across the Nation

Affirmative consent is an idea whose time has finally come. The NCHERM Group, LLC is pleased to see that American society is embracing consent as the foundation for respectful sexual communication through legislation, public discourse and social policy.

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Al Jazeera America quotes Sokolow in "Sexual assault reports jump 61% at top colleges in two years"

These numbers are still a fraction of the actual number of students who are sexual assaulted at college, studies show. But the trend is noteworthy and "nearly universal" across America's colleges, according to Brett Sokolow, the president of the law firm and consultancy the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, who has advised colleges on sexual assault policies for more than 15 years.

"It's not just that more women and men are reporting, they're reporting right away," he said. "The delay is gone."

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