Jess O’Rourke-Suchoff
Associate
Overview
Jessica O’Rourke-Suchoff helps employers, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations respond to sensitive workplace and civil rights complaints with careful fact development, clear findings, and practical guidance. She focuses on investigations involving discrimination, harassment, sexual misconduct, and retaliation under Title VII, Title IX, Title VI, and related state and federal laws.
A certified Title IX Investigator, Jess conducts complex investigations for colleges, K-12 schools, independent schools, businesses, and nonprofit organizations into high-stakes discrimination and misconduct complaints. With expertise grounded in best practices and a trauma-informed approach, she guides clients through the investigatory and grievance process, including fact-finding, party and witness interviews, credibility assessments, and report drafting. Jess is also experienced as a neutral decision maker and appeals officer and routinely serves as an appointed advisor in administrative proceedings for educational institutions.