Veterans and military consumers face unique vulnerabilities that demand robust protection to honor their service and safeguard their well-being. Many have earned hard-earned benefits through sacrifice, yet they are disproportionately targeted by financial exploitation, scams, and fraud—often due to steady VA or military income streams, personal information tied to service, and challenges like age, disability, trauma, or isolation. Learn about key threats to veterans and servicemembers and what can be done to safeguard them.
Title IX is often viewed through a compliance lens, but for many students, it functions as a critical access-to-justice framework impacting safety, educational access, and long-term stability across both K–12 and higher education settings.
This session provides a practical overview of Title IX under the 2020 regulations, including the role of the Title IX Coordinator, reporting and response obligations, supportive measures, and intersections with the Clery Act. Presenters will examine how institutional policies and processes affect vulnerable and underserved student populations, particularly those experiencing overlapping challenges such as housing insecurity and intimate partner violence.
The session will also explore prevention as an early intervention strategy and provide an overview of the hearing and advisor process, including due process protections and common barriers students face when navigating institutional systems. In addition, the session will address how Title IX intersects with broader civil rights frameworks, including Title VI, and the implications for case classification, reporting pathways, and institutional response.
Through a multidisciplinary lens, this session connects compliance requirements to real-world advocacy, equipping attendees with actionable insight to better support clients interacting with school-based Title IX systems.
This session is particularly relevant for attorneys and advocates representing students in K–12 and higher education systems or working with survivors of gender-based violence.
Every rural community deserves a legal system that is both high-functioning and well-resourced. But lawyer scarcity across much of Texas makes such systems aspirational. This session will discuss solutions to the problem of rural legal deserts: Programs that have supported rural doctors for decades can be models for recruiting rural lawyers; Lawyers' educational, licensing, and practice structures can be updated and tailored to rural needs; and courts can modernize their practices. Learn about recent innovations and successes in these areas, and share your own approaches to rural lawyer recruitment.
Senior Staff Attorney, Dedman School of Law, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center
Camilla Hsu joined the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center as a senior policy attorney in September 2024. Her work focuses on litigation related to Due Process and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and supporting the Center’s mission of advocating for innovative criminal legal... Read More →
