attorney and investigator

Amy Klosterman (she/her) is an attorney and investigator based out of Seattle, Washington, providing independent investigations to schools and workplaces as well as training and consulting on school and workplace legal issues. Amy also conducts Title IX athletics program equity reviews, mediates athletics matters, and serves as an expert witness to both plaintiffs and defendants in litigation.

Amy opened her law firm in 2019 to share her dedication for civil rights in schools and workplaces after completing 14 years as an attorney with the federal government. For 11 years, Amy was an attorney at the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), where she investigated hundreds of school-based student and employee complaints in areas such as Title IX sexual harassment, Title IX athletics, Section 504/ADA accommodations, FAPE, retaliation against students and employees, website and physical facility accessibility, and race/national origin discrimination. Amy’s favorite part of working for OCR was building constructive relationships with stakeholders. This drives her passion to help schools and workplaces understand their civil rights obligations. Prior to OCR, Amy worked for the Social Security Administration, drafting decisions on disability insurance and SSI for administrative law judges.

Amy received her Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College with honors, where she was recruited for and competed in Division III athletics in cross county and track and field. She received her Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve School of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Washington state; is a licensed private investigator in Washington state; and is an Association of Workplace Investigators Certificate Holder (AWI-CH). She has been trained as a Title IX investigator under the 2024 Title IX regulations, and has been trained as a Title IX investigator and decision maker under the 2020 Title IX regulations. She has received training in trauma-informed investigations from the Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force.

Amy is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, the King County Bar Association, the Association of Workplace Investigators, the Northwest Association of Title IX Administrators (NWATIXA), the American Association of University Women (AAUW), and the Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association of Seattle (MAMA Seattle). She serves on the boards of MAMA Seattle, NWATIXA, and Pacific Crest School. Her hobbies include running, reading, and baking. In the remainder of her spare time, she moonlights as an unpaid Uber driver ferries her school-aged child to activities.

Representative cases at ocr

• 2018 Title IX sexual harassment resolution agreement and letter of findings with a large public university in Washington state

• 2017 Title IX sexual harassment resolution agreement and 2018 letter of findings with a large public university in Hawai‘i

• 2017 Title II/Section 504 disability accommodations/fundamental alteration resolution agreement and letter of findings with a large public university in Washington state

• 2017 Title IX sexual harassment resolution agreement and letter of findings with a large public university in Alaska

• 2007-2016 Title IX athletics investigation, resolution negotiation, and monitoring of resolution agreement with CSU Fresno

presentations and trainings

• July 2021 AAUW Washington Summer Leadership Conference: State of Title IX

• October 2019 - multi-day Title IX trainings for K-12 personnel in Alaska

• March 2018 faculty in-service training at Bates Technical College, WA on post-secondary auxiliary aids and academic adjustments

• October 2016 Oregon Department of Education’s Title IX conference at Chemeketa Community College, OR; presented on Title IX sexual misconduct

• April 2016 NWATIXA conference at Whitman College, WA; presented on Title IX sexual misconduct and Title IX athletics

• November 2015 WSSDA Annual Conference; presentation on Title IX sexual misconduct

• March 2015 Oregon Department of Education’s Title IX conference at Chemeketa Community College, OR; presented on Title IX sexual misconduct

• February 2015 Human Rights Campaign’s Time to THRIVE conference in Portland, OR; presented on equal access to education for LGBTQ students

• October 2014 ATIXA/NCHERM Title IX Investigator training at Pierce College, WA; presented on Title IX sexual misconduct

• January 2013 Title IX investigations training at Portland State University sponsored by the Clery Center and the Victim Rights Law Center

resume

A full resume is available here as a PDF. Please contact Amy if an alternative format is needed.

contact

Amy can be reached at amy@klostermanlaw.com or by telephone at (206) 945-8921.