By John Beranbaum and Isabelle Kern In terms of women’s rights, 2022 certainly will be remembered as the year the U.S. Supreme Court, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 142 S.Ct. 2228 (2022), overturned the nearly 50-year old precedent, Roe v. Wade (1973), guaranteeing a woman’s constitutional right to...
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...
As a follow up to the recent post on the January 21st premiere of Multitude Films’ documentary Milisuthando at the Sundance Film Festival, last week, The Hollywood Reporter published a glowing review of the film. Reexamining her own experience growing up in apartheid South Africa, director Milisuthando Bongela reflects on...
In New York State, employers are required to adopt a sexual harassment prevention policy, which includes a complaint form, and to provide the policy to each employee. To aid employers in fulfilling this obligation, a few years ago the state published a model sexual harassment prevention policy that employers may...
Notarizations are intended to prevent fraud by providing assurances that a document is authentic, and that signatures on the document are genuine. New York licenses individuals with specific qualifications to become notaries and notarize documents in New York. Recently, New York expanded its legal authority for notaries to, as of...
New York recently passed a new statute that gives more rights to the heirs of entertainers and other famous people. The “right of publicity” refers to an individual’s right to control the commercial use of their name, image and likeness. Before the new statute was passed, upon their death, these...
Congratulations to Jessica Devaney, Founder and President of Multitude Films, on their win on Sunday, January 22 of the 2023 Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Nonfiction Producers Award. The Award honors a producer with films at the Sundance Film Festival for their body of work and commitment to creative producing...
Congratulations to our friends and clients Milisuthando Bongela, Marion Isaacs, and Multitude Films on the upcoming premiere of Milisuthando at the Sundance Film Festival! Director, Milisuthando Bongela, reflects on the “moment of first encounter” between previously segregated white and Black South Africans. She draws from her own experiences growing up...
RPJ Senior Attorney Christine Clarke was interviewed about current and upcoming threats to abortion access in the most recent episode of The O+G Advocates, a podcast created by a team of expert OBGYNs that explores the science and politics of reproductive health care medicine. In the episode, Christine talks about...
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...