Agenda / Content Covered

Session time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Eastern
Presenter: Jacob S. Feldman

1. Sexual Harassment: Interpreting Current OCR Positions
2. Title IX and Sexual Harassment Protections
3. Responding to and Documenting Allegations: OCR Requirements, Etc.
4. Responding to and Documenting Allegations: Confidentiality and More
5. Investigating Allegations of Sexual Violence
   1. How Schools Need to Respond to Off-Campus Allegations of Sexual Violence
   2. Timeframes for Completing an Investigation of Allegations of Sexual Violence
   3. Taking Interim Measures During Investigations
6. Discipline: What Schools Should Consider
7. School's Obligations for Title IX Training, Education, and Prevention
8. Title IX Protection Against Retaliation

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JACOB S. FELDMAN is a founding partner in the Garden City law firm of Frazer & Feldman. He received his J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School and his B.A. degree (cum laude) from Brooklyn College. He is admitted to practice law in the state courts of New York, the United States Supreme Court, the Second Circuit and the Federal Circuit courts of appeals, and the Southern and Eastern district courts of New York. Since 1987, he has served public school districts as general counsel. He has handled the defense of public school districts in major federal and state litigation involving civil rights; age, race, disability and sexual discrimination matters; sexual harassment complaints; special education matters; and appeals to the Appellate Division, First and Second departments, the New York State Court of Appeals and to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He has handled the successful defense of dozens of impartial hearings and appeals to the SRO and federal courts on behalf of school districts. Mr. Feldman is a frequent speaker in various special education law programs, speaking on topics including "Developing a Bulletproof IEP," student discipline, preparation for and defense of impartial hearings, and Section 504 in N.Y., conducted by the Nassau-Suffolk Academies of Law, NYSSBA, LIASEA, the Council of New York Special Education Administrators, St. John's University, and many of their school district clients. He is the author of "Read All About It," a monthly compilation of special education cases appearing in the "Attorney’s Corner" of Frontline's Directors' Website. He has been recognized annually by Pulse magazine as one of Long Island's Top Legal Eagles in the field of education law since 2010, and by New York Magazine as a Legal Leader - New York Area's Top Rated Lawyers annually since 2013.