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top 5 things every MALE student RESPONDENT should know

ONE:               Wish I knew that I needed a lawyer for every step of the sexual misconduct process. 

Did any one at your school ever ask you to self-teach a course? Would you perform an appendectomy on yourself?  Would you go to war alone?  Of course not! Then why in the world would you go through one of the most politicized and complex situations in anyone’s schooling without a person with legal experience representing you?  You need to lawyer up!

TWO:              Wish I knew that once accused of sexual misconduct, no one at the school was on my side. 

 We know this betrayal may be difficult to understand because no one taught you to be suspicious of school staff, but be aware that your school’s Title IX staff see you as radioactive.  To the school’s Title IX staff you are a potential scandal and a possible rapist.  So, if the school’s Title IX staff doesn’t prosecute you harshly and all the way they will be accused of protecting rapists.  They will not protect you. They will protect the school’s brand only.  You protect yourself hiring us as your legal team.

THREE:           Wish I knew that statistically speaking, my school is treating me badly because anti-male bias dominates the school sexual misconduct discipline. 

 Usually, women are discriminated against—except when they complain of sexual misconduct against a grown man like you in a college or university.  That situation has the man suffer reverse discrimination.  Sadly, that’s your new tribe:  men who become scapegoats.  Men who endure discrimination.  You need to get lawyers who specialized in this field to deal with that systemic male bias.

FOUR:             Wish I knew that the school uses an illogical and one sided definition of consent to define sexual misconduct violations. 

Your school’s Title IX sexual misconduct policy uses a novel view of sex that does not match well with the reality of actually having sex or with anything you may have learned while growing up.  The problem with these new “affirmative consent” or “continuous consent” definitions in your student handbook, which you are now accused of violating, is that no one can obtain that form of consent.

FIVE:               Wish I knew that no one will believe my innocence on my word alone which is why I need evidence to back up everything I say. 

 You are not a child anymore so you need to seize the opportunity to save everything you have—texts, snapchats, insta stories, whatever, because that’s your story.  Assume that the persons complaining against you will treat you as if you were an adult and a criminal, and will try to delete stuff.  You need to screenshot, save on a personal account, and even print out everything, immediately.

top 5 things that parents of a MALE student respondent should know

ONE:              Wish I knew that I needed to focus on my son’s sexual trauma, on his shame, and on saving his career.

The school will ignore that you, and your son, devoted at least 18 years of your lives on getting his career going. Your “mama bear” or “tiger mom” work means nothing at this point.  Sadly, the sexual trauma that your son experienced and will continue to experience, including the pain to come as a result of the sexual misconduct process, will likely ruin your son’s name forever; it is harming him right now.  So don’t waste your time trusting the school, blaming him, or blaming her—be realistic and focus on making him safe, and on saving his career.

TWO:              Wish I knew the data actually shows that the school staff handling Sexual Misconduct investigations and disciplinary hearings will not be fair to my son because he is a man.

The data is clear. In today’s colleges and universities, administrators have become deer caught in the headlights of the #meToo and #TitleIX scandals.  This turns your son into the scapegoat of the school’s fear that to not convict every man means they are rape enablers.   Reliable statistics show that:

“The rate of rape and sexual assault was 1.2 times higher for nonstudents (7.6 per 1,000) than for students (6.1 per 1,000).” See, https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5176

 Yet schools routinely cite #meToo and #TitleIX flawed data claiming that:

“One in 5 women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college (i).” See, https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf

This wild statistical disparity (6.1 per 1000 women according to the US Government, 1 out of 5 women according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center) suggests that men who respond to sexual misconduct charges face a school administrative process staffed with employees who will treat them worse just because they are men.   

“Over the last eight years, there have been several hundred lawsuits filed against colleges and universities by students accused of sexual assault by another student. Now, experts say a case is filed every two weeks or so.”

 See, Katie Malafronte, Every Two Weeks a Student Accused of Sexual Assault Sues Their School, Campus Safety, April 19, 2019, available at,

https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/clery/student-accused-sexual-sues-school/

 A global law firm that advises schools and school staff, Proskauer, analyzed 130 cases brought by men and found that:

•           64.6% of those cases had the male student claiming the school staff had reverse discriminated them under Title IX. See, Proskauer, Title IX Report: The Accused. Available at:

https://www.proskauer.com/insights/download-pdf/4895

THREE:          Wish I knew that the strategic way to help my son to safeguard his good name and to handle the sexual misconduct investigation and hearing is to lawyer-up.

You need to take decisive action—a power move—to save your son’s career and his mental well being.  Hire your son a specialized lawyer to achieve a quick change in the power relationship between your family and the school.  Qualified Title IX lawyers push school bureaucrats out of their comfort zone. 

FOUR:             Wish I knew that the woman who complained against my son already has a lawyer.

In our experience, and you can check on this reading the school’s information about “survivor support” groups, every single woman who files a complaint of sexual misconduct in a school has received extensive, aggressive, and politicized legal help from any of the hundreds of charitable organizations that help rape survivors. This is so because the school sends the females who complain to them, but does not send the men who receive the complaint to anyone. You balance that out by hiring us for your son.        

FIVE:      What does the Jauregui Law Office offer your family as sexual misconduct counsel?

•           We work with your son day and night to create a strategy to save his career.

•           We investigate, research, write and talk to witnesses to prove that what your son is accused of did not violate school policy.

•           We make it known to the school’s Title IX Coordinator and to the Title IX investigators that we are checking everything they do to your son.

 •           We sue schools including large universities, and small colleges.

•           We focus on cleaning any blemishes on your son’s record.