A Title IX accusation can put your entire future at risk: your standing at school, your degree, your record, and your reputation. And it happens on a track that is separate from the criminal courts, with its own rules, its own timeline, and its own hearing. Students often do not realize how quickly a campus investigation moves, or how much is decided before they ever get real help. If you have been accused of sexual misconduct at your college or university, the time to build a defense is now, not after the hearing.

At the Law Office of Lauren Campoli, we defend students facing Title IX proceedings at Minnesota colleges and universities. As a trial lawyer, Lauren brings the one skill these hearings now turn on most: the ability to cross-examine effectively when it counts.

What Title IX Is

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a federal law providing that no person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from or discriminated against under any education program receiving federal funding. In practice, it requires schools that receive federal funds to investigate and resolve complaints of sexual harassment and misconduct, through their own process, entirely separate from the criminal justice system.

A Separate Process, With Serious Stakes

A Title IX case is not a criminal case, and that surprises people. Your school runs its own investigation, interviews witnesses, and holds its own hearing, using its own standard of proof, which may be as low as a preponderance of the evidence. A student can face suspension or expulsion, a permanent mark on their education record, and lasting damage to their name, all without a criminal charge ever being filed. And because a Title IX matter can run alongside a criminal investigation, what you say in one can affect the other. Coordinated defense matters.

The 2020 Rules Now Govern, and They Center on the Hearing

After several years of changing regulations, the 2020 Title IX rules are once again the framework in effect nationwide, following a federal court decision in January 2025. For a student accused of misconduct, the most important feature of these rules is the live hearing: at a formal hearing, each party has an advisor who directly cross-examines the other party and the witnesses. That single procedure often decides the outcome. It is also precisely where an experienced trial lawyer makes the difference, because cross-examination is not something to improvise in a room where your future is on the line.

How We Defend Title IX Cases

We get involved early, before the investigation hardens, and we work the case on every front: reviewing the allegations and the school’s own policy, gathering and preserving evidence such as messages and witness accounts, preparing you for interviews and the hearing, and serving as your advisor to cross-examine at the hearing itself. Where a parallel criminal matter exists, we defend both together so one does not sink the other.

Talk With a Minnesota Title IX Defense Lawyer

If you are facing a Title IX complaint, act quickly, because the process is already in motion. Contact the Law Office of Lauren Campoli at 612-500-7777 to discuss your case.

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