In a decision of importance to photographers, filmmakers and other creative artists, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a summary order today affirming a lower court decision dismissing federal Copyright Act claims brought by photographer Janine Gordon against photographer Ryan McGinley. Gordon v. McGinley, et al., Nos. 11-3711...
The Women’s City Club will confer its Eleanor Roosevelt “Moving History Forward” Award on Dr. Michelle Bachelet, a long-time champion of gender equality, at its annual reception and lecture on October 31, 2012. A former President of Chile, Dr. Bachelet serves as the first Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN...
RPL Partner Helen D. ("Heidi") Reavis has been elected as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Women's City Club of New York (July 2012). Established in 1915, the WCC is a nonprofit, non-partisan, multi-issue activist organization dedicated to improving the lives of all New Yorkers. The WCC shapes...
Over a period of five years, photographer Robin Bowman drove some 21,731 miles across America, interviewing and photographing teenagers she met along the way. The images and words of those teenagers are presented in her award-winning book, IT'S COMPLICATED: The American Teenager. Spring, a gallery located at 126a Front Street,...
RPL Attorney Nicole Page will be attending the Real Screen Summit on January 30th and January 31st.
RPL Hosts Women's Forum Health Care Forum, “Will Health Care Reform Help or Hurt You?” Assembled panelists include Pamela Brier, President and CEO, Maimonides Medical Center; Pamela Gallin, MD FACSF, Director, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Joan Leiman, Chief of Staff to the President & CEO, New York-Presbyterian Hospital;...
The Firm won a significant appellate victory on behalf of our client, Broadway Metro Associates, LP ("Broadway Metro"). A unanimous five-member panel of the Appellate Division, First Department affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing a breach of contract claim against Broadway Metro as seller under a contract for sale ("Contract")...
Located at 41 Madison Avenue, at the corner of 26th Street and Madison Avenue, RPL's office building has experienced years of a lack of identity when it comes to its association with a New York City Neighborhood. Not quite located in Gramercy, or Midtown East, or even Chelsea, our office...