This week's TikTok features RPJ Partner Nicole Page as she discusses a situation that may be all too familiar: a hostile work environment. Commonly used as a phrase referring to an unpleasant workplace, a hostile work environment is actually a legal term that is far more complex than most people...
RPJ is proud to announce a new outreach initiative via the launch of Partner Ethan Krasnoo's TikTok presence. Intended to shed some light on common employment and entertainment and media issues, Ethan will feature short, educational videos that aim to inform the general audience of important legal issues. The first...
Pray Away produced by Multitude Films has been nominated for an Emmy Award under the category Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. The film explores the “ex-gay movement” and how former leaders of Exodus International, once the largest conversion therapy organization in the world, have since come out as LGBTQ. The documentary sheds...
On July 26, 1990, thirty-two years ago today, the Americans with Disabilities Act (the “ADA”) was enacted. Heralded as the world’s first comprehensive declaration of equality for people with disabilities, the ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in critical areas including employment, transportation,...
RPJ Partner Nicole Page will be moderating a panel at the Offshore Film Festival in Montauk on Friday, July 15 featuring a dynamic group of female filmmakers and artists to discuss storytelling and art made by women, and the importance of presenting the female perspective in these mediums, especially now....
The Federal Correctional Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, (“FCI-Memphis”) is one of 122 prisons run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The inmates at FCI-Memphis are all males, but the institution has 49 female employees. Due to a chronic shortage of correctional officers, FCI-Memphis regularly “augments” (i.e. requires) females to...
Don’t get me wrong – I love rainbow sprinkles and Kate Bush and Pose, but I’m reminded every time I talk to my family in Florida that the fuzzy feeling of June in the city isn’t shared by all in this hot, hot mess of a country. So I am...
The Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court recently revised its rules relating to e-discovery, with the stated goal of modernizing the process and reducing the burden and expense of what has become one of civil litigation’s greatest hurdles. While the prior rules focused on e-discovery from third...
Meet our own Miss Congeniality, Gracie Lou Freebush. Gracie joins us straight from the breeder as an associate specializing in licking, paper shredding, and spreading joy throughout the office. Here is what you should know about the newest (and possibly cutest) face at the firm: Birthday: December 24, 2021 Breed:...
By Nicole Page and Bilal Mubarack Is having a miscarriage a crime? The terrifying answer is: maybe. The California Penal Code § 187 defines murder as “the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought.” The addition of “fetus” in this definition stems from the 1970...