With a focus on civil rights compliance for higher education institutions, Brigid is a member of the firm's higher education and private schools and labor and employment teams. She has extensive experience in Title VI, Title VII, Title IX, VAWA, ADA, and athletics compliance, and guides clients through complex issues of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Brigid excels in developing non-discrimination and harassment policies, conducting investigations, and training university communities on compliance obligations. Beyond higher education, Brigid advises clients including secondary schools, biotech firms, nonprofits, and professional associations. She has counseled employers through internal investigations, employee climate assessments, and other highly sensitive issues.Brigid is an active member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and contributes to its Committee on Virtual Programming. She has spoken on Title VI compliance at Stetson University's Higher Education and Law Conference, at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), and has spoken about topics including NIL compensation for student athletes and student mental health at the Boston Bar Association's annual higher education conference, for which she has also served as a member of the organizing committee. Brigid is a member of the Committee on Virtual Programming for the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA). Before her current role, Brigid was the Director of Civil Rights at the University of Massachusetts. There, she led a team of investigators and deputy coordinators in implementing comprehensive processes surrounding civil rights policies and ensured such policies, investigations, and trainings were in compliance with federal and state law. She also served as an Investigator at Harvard University's Office of Dispute Resolution. Prior to her work in higher education, Brigid was an Assistant District Attorney in New York City.

Bar Admissions
Massachusetts

New York

Education
JD, Boston College Law School, cum laude, 2005

BA, International Relations, University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, 2002

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