From February 18-21, 2016, at the Barnard College campus in New York, the Athena Film Festival will hold its sixth annual celebration of women and leadership through an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries and shorts that highlight women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. The four-day Festival...
Tune in Wednesday, September 23, at 8:00 p.m. ET for the premiere of Catching Odell on the NFL Network. Catching Odell is a one hour documentary special featuring New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who rose to fame after making a spectacular one-handed catch on Sunday Night Football...
RPL congratulates its client Engel Entertainment on this summer's successful premiere of its fourth season of “North Woods Law” on Animal Planet. Tune into Animal Planet, Sunday's at 8 pm ET, to catch the latest episodes (check local listings). This season, the Maine Game Wardens enter their busiest and most perilous time...
We would like to congratulate Jimmy Chin, co-director and star, along with Conrad Anker and Renan Otzurk of the feature documentary film Meru, opening in New York on Friday, August 14, at the Angelika Film Center. Meru follows the journey of three elite climbers as they attempt to conquer the Shark's...
On Tuesday, May 19, RPL Partners Nicole Page and Lawrence Brocchini discussed Employee Misclassification: How to Protect Your Company from Labor Issues and Liabilities for Anchin, Block & Anchin's semi-annual "CPE for CFO's" seminar. This presentation covered the perils of worker misclassification in New York, focusing on frequently overlooked nuances...
We are pleased to announce that RPL client Jackson Films Inc., along with Teale Productions Inc., will premier a new documentary, Grazers: A Cooperative Story, on November 16th as part of DOC NYC. Grazers: A Cooperative Story is an intimate chronicle of a group of fiercely independent farmers in upstate...
RPL Congratulates its client Engel Entertainment on the television series premiere of Untying The Knot, which airs on Wednesday, June 4 at 10/9c on Bravo. The new docu-series features divorce mediator Vikki Ziegler as she advises couples seeking divorce help and mediation.
RPL congratulates Marianne J. Legato, MD, Professor Emerita of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University School of Medicine and Founder of The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine; Susan Avarde, Head of Global Branding, Citigroup Inc.; and Ana L. Oliveria, President and CEO of The New York Women's Foundation, all of whom were...
RPL is thrilled to announce the premiere of the feature documentary ALL ABOUT ANN at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18. The film is about the late Governor Ann Richards, who in 1991, became the first elected female governor of Texas. The film is also scheduled to premiere on...
This article was written by Alice K. Jump, a partner with the Firm. In a major ruling under the whistleblower provisions of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (“SOX”), the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, extended the statute’s anti-retaliation provisions to employers of privately held contractors or subcontractors who perform work for...