By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman As an employment lawyer, I often find myself having the same difficult conversation with prospective clients who believe they were wrongfully discharged. I explain that while the circumstances of the termination may seem unfair, if the worker was an at-will employee (like most...
By Ethan Krasnoo and Ariana Zhao Since summer 2022, Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE) has banned attorneys involved in litigation against the company from its venues, which include, among many others, Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. To justify this decision, MSGE has cited Rule 4.2 of the...
A bearish economic outlook has launched a wave of mass layoffs throughout the technology, financial services, and media industries. To name a few, Twitter, Google, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft and Disney —the giants of corporate America — are shedding employees at an alarming rate. While the reasoning behind such large-scale reductions...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Alice Jump On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it was proposing a rule to ban noncompete clauses from all employee contracts throughout the country. These noncompetes, FTC Commissioner Lina Khan argued, “block workers from freely switching jobs, depriving them of...
Just over a month ago, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was running one of the world’s largest crypto-currency exchanges and hobnobbing at conferences with the likes of Bill Clinton. Celebrities and athletes, from Larry David to Tom Brady, appeared in FTX advertisements. The FTX name was everywhere, including on the Miami Heat’s...
With the holidays in tow and the year nearing its end, many employees may find themselves checking in on how much vacation time or paid time off (PTO) they have left to use or, depending on company policy, carry over to next year. But what if an employee resigns or...
Twitter is recently undergoing some “extremely hardcore” workplace turmoil, shall we say, and doing so very publicly before the eyes of millions and millions of Twitter users around the world. When I first saw reference to the now well-known email ultimatum set down by Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner and...
The old custom of “salary upon request” is now done and dusted in New York City. Effective November 1, 2022, amendments to the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) now require covered employers to disclose the good faith minimum and maximum annual pay range of positions posted in job...
A surprising silver lining of the pandemic has been the increased accessibility for disabled individuals in ways that had once seemed impossible. For two years, people were encouraged to work from home (WFH), schedule telehealth visits, attend classes remotely, and engage in virtual social opportunities in an effort to contain...
With the rise in popularity of documentaries and docu-series comes the rise in defamation lawsuits as real-life individuals watch their lives unfold on-screen. The most recent case involves Rachel DeLoache Williams, a former Vanity Fair photo editor and former friend of Anna Sorokin (also known as Anna Delvey) who is...