Today, The New Yorker featured the documentary “Radical Love” produced by RPJ client Caroline Waterlow, in an article entitled The Romance of American Activism in “Radical Love.” Directed by William Kirkley, the documentary follows the marriage and activism of Michael and Eleanora Kennedy during the 1960s and 1970s. Eleanora and...
RPJ client Story Center Films LLC is debuting “Cured” tonight on PBS and the PBS video app on National Coming Out Day at 10/9c. The documentary follows the fight to overturn the medical establishment’s labeling of homosexuality as a mental illness. Before 1973, homosexuality was listed in the Diagnostic and...
Today BBC News reported as its primary Feature the first meeting of a “citizen’s grand jury” convened by 23-year-old Madison Smith, citing a rarely used nineteenth-century law to bring charges against her rapist, after the County DA refused to prosecute stating violence related to “immature sex” was not worthy of...
RPJ is proud to congratulate Partners Helen D. (Heidi) Reavis, Nicole Page and Alice K. Jump and Special Counsel Frederick R. (Fred) Fucci on their 2021 selection to Super Lawyers. We also congratulate Partner Jill Kahn Marshall and Associates Michelle Lamardo and Elizabeth Stork on their selection to Super Lawyers’...
RPJ commends The Lions Model Management on the launch of a music video and non-fungible token (NFT) raising awareness of trans lives, trans murders, and LGBTQ advocacy organizations. The project was jointly produced with blockchain company Lukso and stars openly transgender model Valentina Sampaio, who launched the campaign at the...
Congratulations to RPJ friend and client Julie Wolf on scoring the newly created role of Senior Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs, for Canadian media power Cineflix, overseeing the company’s global business and legal affairs teams on both scripted and unscripted projects. Julie’s previous roles include Vice President, Business &...
After over 50 years as leading experts in debt and equity finance throughout the New York metro area and around the country, The Singer & Bassuk Organization (SBO) is bringing its expertise to commercial real estate giant Avison Young (AY). Andrew (Andy) Singer and Scott Singer, the father-son founders of...
Yesterday, RPJ Partner Nicole Page was quoted in Law360 in an article entitled, “A Cheat Sheet for Activision Blizzard’s Legal Woes.” Activision Blizzard, the largest gaming company in the Americas and Europe, has recently faced a slew of legal threats from the federal government concerning its workplace practices, ranging from...
Yesterday, it was reported that RPJ Client Jannat Gargi has been named senior vice president and head of documentaries at media company Westbrook, overseeing the production of non-fiction features and premium series. She was most recently vice president of documentaries at Vice Studios, where she developed award-winning documentaries including “Flee,”...
On September 6, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced, amidst widespread concern over the Delta variant, that COVID-19 has been designated as an airborne, highly contagious and communicable disease under the HERO Act. As such, most private employers with employees in New York must put their workplace safety plans...