Sokolow quoted on Yale sexual misconduct case

Brett Sokolow, who advises colleges on the handling of sexual misconduct cases as president of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, said that the pushback from alleged assailants "is going to get much worse before it gets better, once these cases [against the universities] start to win, which they are doing now." He's seeing more cases that are not getting dismissed — an initial win — as "judges are getting more acclimated" and seeing that "the college process needs to be looked at more carefully.

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UT-Knoxville litigation commentary, Mother Jones

Speaking about the massive civil rights lawsuit brought by eight college women against University of Tennessee-Knoxville, The NCHERM Group President & CEO and ATIXA Executive Director Brett Sokolow comments that this litigation “has the potential to call attention to insufficient discipline of athletes” and could “put other universities on warning that they need to be taking this misconduct seriously and treating it as a culture and climate issue.” Sokolow is also serving as a consultant for the plaintiffs. http://ow.ly/Z4w1R