Sokolow quoted on Kipnis case in Chronicle of Higher Ed

"The way campuses like Northwestern respond to complaints like hers just validates the faculty fears to which Kipnis gives voice," Sokolow wrote.

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Boston Herald quotes Sokolow on due process rights

“They panicked, with a capital ‘P,’ ” said Brett Sokolow, an attorney who has advised hundreds of colleges on how to deal with sexual misconduct. “In panicking in response to this strong enforcement, campuses overcorrected.”

And that “overcorrection” led to cases where the accused had the deck stacked against them — they were in effect guilty unless they could prove their innocence.

That, in turn, led to cases like this one involving Amherst where the accused predator would file suit against the university for espousing an unfair process.

Now that kind of litigation is forcing schools to rethink and readjust again. The pendulum continues to swing, and observers, including the parents of college kids, are waiting for it to find a comfortable medium.

“I think it’s going in the right direction,” Sokolow said. “I don’t want a process that protects the rights of the accused more than the victim, and I don’t want a process that protects the rights of the accused. You have zero margin for error here.”

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Sokolow quoted in Chronicle of Higher Ed on fraternity insurance issues

"The nationals take the position that they can’t go down with all the sinking ships," says Brett A. Sokolow, president of the Ncherm Group, a consulting and law firm that advises colleges and that was formerly known as the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management.

The goal, typically, is to push liability onto the local chapter, he says.

Chapters, in turn, often deflect responsibility onto parents’ homeowners’ insurance because fraternity members typically still use their parents’ address as their own. But those insurance companies are starting to specifically exempt activities that are illegal or that involve fraternities, Mr. Sokolow says.

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MTV references Sokolow on terminology

Brett Sokolow, the CEO of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, a consulting and law firm, told Al Jazeera that he originated the terms “nonconsensual sexual intercourse” and “nonconsensual sexual contact” as a way of bypassing many universities’ inability to believe that their students could be guilty of rape.

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HuffPo quotes Sokolow on UCSF case

"Letting the accused individual drag out the clock for BS reasons and using the attorney really runs counter to the promptness to Title IX," said Brett Sokolow, president of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management.

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Inside Higher Ed quotes Sokolow on accused student lawsuits

“These Title IX suits are not faring well so far, but all it takes is one good win with the right set of facts and the right attorney, and a whole new venue of litigation will open up,” said Brett Sokolow, the president of NCHERM Group, a risk management firm that works with colleges. “I’m not ready to say that these suits hold no hope, but I am seeing campuses readjust their approaches to ensure fairness for all, which should quiet the need for such suits, over time.”

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