Section One: Attorneys Directory

• Primary purpose: assist accused students and their families with finding and making an informed decision about which attorney(s) will represent them. The Directory also tracks attorneys defending higher ed institutions. Legal and educational professionals may also find the Directory useful as a reference tool.
• Functions: use interactive visual reports, tables, maps, search engines, and other features to find and compare attorneys based on their geographic reach, litigation volume, experience, litigation outcomes, and more.
• Access requirement: $5.99 per month of access.
• Special notes: current subscribers to the Title IX Lawsuits Database and those who have purchased Data Downloads will have access to the Attorneys Directory by default.

Section Two: Data Downloads

• Primary purpose: assist organizations in building and maintaining their own internal records regarding Title IX attorneys representing both accused students and school defendants.
• Functions: customize and download massive datasets of attorney and law firm data in the form of Excel spreadsheets.
• Access requirement: access a dataset of attorney and law firm data priced at fifty cents per attorney record (law firm data included along with the attorney).
• Special note: a discount is available at our discretion for non-profits advocating in behalf of accused students.

That’s the quick summary. I’ll now provide a more detailed explanation of each section below. First, the Attorneys Directory, then Data Downloads.

Attorneys Directory: A Closer Look

The Idea Behind the Attorneys Directory

The Department of Education is gearing up for an almost certain rollback of due process protections for students accused of Title IX misconduct. This will increase the need for accused students to find an attorney to represent them.

There are now nearly 1,600 currently-practicing Title IX attorneys who have litigated lawsuits by accused students since 2011, whether on behalf of accused students or schools. We’ve kept track of them in our Title IX Lawsuits Database. This lawsuits database tracks many other things: 100,000+ pages of legal files, nearly 800 Title IX lawsuits, as well as court, judge, and school data. Accessing the database has historically required a monthly subscription fee of $19.99, or $10.99 for two weeks. While this database has several important purposes, many accused students and families have used it to find an attorney.

But some just want information on attorneys. Additionally, they are often preparing for litigation expenses. The circumstances and needs of the families of accused students is a large driver behind the creation of the Attorneys Directory: a low-cost alternative to look up extensive information on Title IX attorneys. We’re confident that this is the most extensive and accurate resource for information on Title IX attorneys that is easily available to accused students and their families.

Features of the Attorneys Directory

Below, you can get a more visual idea of its features. These images are screenshots from the Attorneys Directory:

Interactive Law Firm / Attorney Maps

Easily find firms and attorneys within a specified geographic region.

Interactive Reports

Compare attorneys – their geographic reach, litigation volume, experience, litigation outcomes, and more – with interactive visual reports.

Search Engines

Find attorneys and law firms by specified criteria.

Interactive Tables Galore

Endless (ok, not really endless, but incredibly extensive) tables of attorney and law firm data that are easily sorted, searched, and filtered.

The Scope of Data Included

We include data on currently-practicing attorneys who have represented students accused of Title IX-related misconduct, or school defendants who were sued by such students, from 2011 onward. We have chosen 2011 because this was the year of the famous “Dear Colleague Letter” that sparked a tremendous increase in litigation by students accused of Title IX-related misconduct.

Below are the data we try to get for each attorney. We aren’t able to get them 100% of the time, but we get very close.

Attorney Data Included

1. Attorney Name: the first and last name of the attorney.
2. Represents: a clarification on whether this attorney has represented accused students, school defendants, or (in some cases) both.
3. Email (Primary): the attorney’s professional email.
4. Email (Secondary): any additional emails we may have for this attorney. Please note that we do not include private, personal emails unless that attorney has specifically used such an email in court filings when listing their contact information (you may be surprised how many attorneys still use AOL or Gmail for their professional email!).
5. Law Firm: the attorney’s law firm. If the law firm has several offices, the specific office of the attorney will be listed.
6. Employer: if an attorney is not in private practice, their employer will be specified here.
7. Sex: the sex of the attorney.
8. LinkedIn: a link to the attorney’s LinkedIn profile.
9. Litigation Volume: a general sense of the number of lawsuits between accused students and school defendants that the attorney has litigated.
10. Total Lawsuits: the total number of lawsuits by accused students we have on record that this attorney has litigated.
11. # of Lawsuits Representing Accused Students: self-explanatory.
12. # of Lawsuits Representing School Defendants: same as above.
13. Earliest Year Representing Accused Students: the earliest year this attorney represented an accused student in court.
14. Earliest Year Representing School Defendants: the earliest year this attorney represented a school defendant in court in a lawsuit by an accused student.
15. Notes: clarifications or additional info regarding this attorney or their career.
16. Attorney Data Quality: a three-point rating system that gives a quick snapshot of how much data we have on this attorney.
17. Next Update By: the time by which we will have this attorney scanned for updates.
18. Attorney Record #: a unique permanent ID assigned to each attorney. This can be used to easily match up records in future updates.

Law Firm Data Included

1. Firm Name: the law firm’s name. Regional offices will be labeled accordingly.
2. Represents: a clarification on whether attorneys at this firm have represented accused students, school defendants, or (in some cases) both.
3. Firm Website: the firm’s website URL.
4. Firm Phone: the firm’s main phone line.
5. Firm Address: the physical address for the law firm.
6. Firm Email: an email for general inquiries for the law firm. Sometimes, this email is for the firm’s office manager or a paralegal.
7. Total Title IX Attorneys: the number of attorneys we have on record who have been involved in litigation by accused students.
8. # of Plaintiff Attorneys: the number of attorneys at this law firm who have represented accused students.
9. # of Defendant Attorneys: the number of attorneys at this law firm who have represented school defendants.
10. Firm Data Quality: a three-point system rating that gives a quick snapshot of how much data we have on this law firm.
11. Notes: any notes that may help clarify the data we have on this law firm.
12. Next Update By: the time by which we will have this law firm scanned for updates.
13. Firm Record #: a unique permanent ID assigned to each firm. This can be used to easily match up records in future updates.

Data Downloads: A Closer Look

The purpose of this section is simple: you can acquire the attorney and law firm data that we have listed above. We are not sure how many may have an interest in this feature, but because we have received several inquiries, we are making it available.

We get data exclusively from official sources: federal and state court dockets, legal filings, law firms themselves, and so forth. We have used this data to construct our Title IX Lawsuits Database, which we update several times a week. Please note that we do not sell any private, non-public data whatsoever.

Data are purchased as one of three datasets:

1. Attorneys and their law firms representing accused students
2. Attorneys and their law firms representing school defendants
3. Datasets 1 and 2 combined.

Acquiring a dataset also grants access to the Attorneys Directory for the lifetime of the Attorneys Directory resource and three months of downloadable data updates from the Data Downloads section. After that point, any data in previously purchased datasets will still be available to download.

Moving Forward

Please see the Attorneys Database for more information on this resource:

Our mission at Title IX for All is “Informing, Connecting, and Empowering” – a mission which has inspired the construction of the Attorneys Database. We will be evaluating this resource and making improvements or adjustments as necessary. Please email us at [email protected] if you have any questions.