We’ve just implemented our ninth consecutive monthly expansion to our Title IX Lawsuits Database, focusing this time on attorney records. In summary, we have:

• Tripled the number of Title IX attorneys listed in the database to ~1,200
• Expanded the scope of information listed for attorneys and law firms
• Changed the structure of the database to facilitate finding the right attorneys and the lawsuits they have litigated more efficiently and accurately
• Refreshed all pre-existing attorney data to reflect which attorneys have moved to new firms or entirely different positions at other organizations

Below is a more thorough breakdown.

Now Tracking University Attorneys

When attorney records were first systematically added to the database in February of 2017, the goal was to create a resource for students and families who seek to understand their options after or while undergoing a Title IX proceeding. For that reason, the only attorneys the database tracked were plaintiffs’ attorneys.

We’re moving in the direction of creating a more comprehensive resource, and we also wish to lay a foundation for more thorough analytics in the future. For these reasons, we have added all attorneys who have defended universities in the lawsuits tracked in our database. The total number of these defendant attorneys is over 600. We have also added over 80 pro-due process attorneys, for a total of ~1,200 Title IX attorneys across ~600 law firms.

New Information Tracked

Of course, each attorney will be tracked by which lawsuits they have litigated on behalf of plaintiffs or defendants. In addition, out of ~1200 attorney contacts, we’ve been able to obtain email addresses for 83% and LinkedIn information for 75%. While the purpose here is not to create an email list, we have included email and LinkedIn information in the “Detail” pages dedicated to individual attorneys and law firms.

The following tallies have also been added for each law firm:

• Total # of Title IX attorneys
• Total # lawsuits litigated on behalf of plaintiffs
• Total # lawsuits litigated on behalf of defendants

Database Structure Changes

Our search engines and spreadsheets have been updated to allow searching and sorting lawsuits by which attorneys have litigated on behalf of plaintiffs or defendants. The Attorneys & Law Firms page has also been overhauled entirely. On that page, there are now two spreadsheets – one for attorneys and another for law firms – as well as the interactive map of law firms. All of these can now be sorted by their respective litigation efforts on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants.

In addition to providing basic information about attorneys, the “Attorneys” spreadsheet links to an “Attorney Details” page related info about that attorney. Likewise, the Law Firms spreadsheet provides both basic information about the law firm and a link to more specific and related information about the firm.

This has been the ninth consecutive monthly expansion to our Title IX Lawsuits Database in a 10-month series of expansions promised on the 11/29/2018 relaunch. As a recap, here is a timeline of previous expansions:

• July 2019 – enhanced claims tracking
• June 2019 – Clery Act data
• May 2019 – oral arguments
• April 2019 – “save” feature  for lawsuits & research notes
• March 2019 – expansion of judge records, various user interface updates
• February 2019 – expansion of the scope of lawsuits to include dating violence, stalking, exploitation, harassment, etc.
• January 2019 – expansion of court system records
• December 2018 – creation of a changelog, database load speeds halved

Thank you for reading. If you aren’t signed up to our Title IX Lawsuits Database, we invite you to do so at this link.

Best,

The Title IX for All team