Warm congratulations to RPJ Client Jessica Devaney and Multitude Films on the upcoming Sundance Film Festival opening night premier of It’s Only Life After All. The Multitude produced documentary shines a light on Emily Saliers and Amy Ray of the Grammy Award-winning folk rock duo Indigo Girls. Adding to the...
Read Alliance is a nonprofit dedicated to tutoring striving readers in New York’s five boroughs, providing them with the building blocks to academic success through phonics instruction. Over the past year, Read Alliance has embarked on a notable geographical expansion and has recently formed an Expansion Committee to guide that...
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who served as New York City mayor from 1934 to 1945, is celebrated as one of the city’s most vibrant and colorful characters, and a champion of reform and progress in Depression Era New York. In 1938, however, he made a rare political misstep, which impacts...
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...
Congratulations to RPJ Clients Tabitha Breese and Yesenia Tlahuel on the nomination of their film, Mija, for Best Feature Documentary in the 2022 IDA Documentary Awards! Mija follows 26-year-old music manager Doris Muñoz, as she works to launch the career of Chicanx pop stars while navigating her own family’s undocumented...
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...
Congratulations to RPJ Client K.B. Miller of Fighter Steel Productions and Teressa Tunney on the debut of their upcoming thriller podcast series, Spark Hunter. Premiering on Realm, this riveting sci-fi series centers on the world’s most advanced AI, created for the government and grappling with the existential dilemma of its destiny to be a weapon in the...
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...