As the anticipation for returning to work after the pandemic continuously increases, and conversations about employee safety and COVID-19 guidelines compliance evolve, it is difficult to say what our new normal will look like, and perhaps even more difficult to imagine what shapes our new professional lives may take. Juggling...
Last year the American Bar Association (ABA) published a report with grim findings on the lack of diversity in American patent law.[1] Building on that report and our own experience of the lack of diversity in the patent law profession, we ask what the reasons behind a largely homogenous patent...
Earlier this month, New York federal district court Judge Laura Taylor Swain denied a motion to dismiss a case filed by Sketchworks Industrial Strength Comedy Inc. seeking to obtain the court’s preemptive declaration that its musical Vape, which it created as an alleged parody of the musical Grease, constitutes “fair...
On Tuesday, a tense nation had a weight lifted off its shoulders as former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts in the death of George Floyd, including unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. It has almost been a year since the video of George...
On April 13, Insider’s article entitled, “The failed Amazon union bid has reignited calls to pass the PRO Act. Here's how the labor bill could help freelancers” quoted RPJ attorney Elizabeth Stork on the PRO Act and its potential consequences. If signed into law, the PRO Act would increase federal...
Bystander intervention has been featured prominently in the news recently, with witnesses at the trial centered on the death of George Floyd recounting their observance of his alleged murder and their failure to take action, and with video footage of a brutal attack of a Filipino woman just outside a...
With President Biden announcing that all adults in the United States should be eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine by April 19 and Covid-19 restrictions being lifted or eased throughout much of the country, many businesses that had remained shuttered or remote throughout the pandemic are considering the return of...
The compelling human rights documentary, Missing in Brooks County, chronicling the humanitarian crisis along the US/Mexico border, has been a great success across the country ever since its release. Just in the past few months, the film has won Best Documentary Feature at the Thin Line Documentary Film Festival, and...
RPJ friend and client, noted songwriter and now author Amy Powers, just released her first book to critical acclaim! A graduate of Harvard Law and Columbia Business Schools, in “No Degree Required: Network Marketing the Ivy League Way,” Amy guides her readers on how to master the “Ivy League” blueprint...
RPJ client and a New York Times bestselling author, Julie Metz, recently released her new book Eva and Eve. The memoir follows her late mother, Eve, on her harrowing childhood journey in Nazi-occupied Vienna. Julie discovered a keepsake book, after her mother’s passing, filled with farewell notes from friends and...