On August 11, Deadline announced the release of Cured, a documentary directed and produced by RPJ clients, Bennett Singer and Patrick Sammon. The film premieres on August 24 at Outfest Los Angeles and will be broadcast in the coming months. The film covers the true story of the passionate gay...
RPJ is thrilled to congratulate our client, production company Cowboy Bear Ninja, on its recently announced 2020 Emmy nomination for the series Black Women OWN the Conversation! The company partnered with OZY Media to produce the four-part talk show series, which featured “intimate conversations about important issues with honest opinions...
On June 30, the New York Attorney General’s Office announced that they had reached a settlement of nearly $19 million with Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, The Weinstein Company, and company board members and executives, hailing it as a major victory on behalf of victims of Weinstein’s sexual misconduct. However, just...
On June 30, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing sued Cisco Systems Inc. for discrimination on behalf of John Doe, an Indian engineer at Cisco’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Doe was born into the Dalit population in India, which is considered the lowest caste in the country’s hierarchical system....
Last week on July 9, RPJ Partner Helen D. (Heidi) Reavis presented via Zoom to Columbia University Law School’s LLM and U.S. Business Law programs, open to foreign lawyers and MBA graduate students around the world, on the history of American racial and gender profiling, the lead-up to the #MeToo...
Many people don’t know how much can be lost by going to court. For even small lawsuits with relatively small damages at play, the addition of attorneys’ fees and costs of legal proceedings can multiply the overall cost tenfold, which can in some cases lead to loss of assets, including...
It is with great pride and excitement that we announce the promotion of two of RPJ's attorneys, Ethan Krasnoo and Jill Kahn Marshall, to Partner, as of July 1, 2020. Both are exceptional members of the RPJ team, and we congratulate them on their incredible work and accomplishments! —————— Jill...
On July 1, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Senate-backed bill to extend the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses through August 8 as a stopgap measure, allowing time for Congress to come to a consensus on a second piece of pandemic relief legislation. The bill was supported by...
Last week, Unilever announced that it would drop the word “fair” from its skin-lightening products line “Fair & Lovely”. The announcement comes after a fresh wave of backlash against the skin-lightening product lines of many brands across the cosmetics industry, including those of industry giants Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal and...
Earlier this week Vice Studios U.S. announced that it has named Jannat Gargi, a veteran documentary producer and client of RPJ, to fill the new role of VP, Head of Documentaries for the Vice Media division. Gargi will oversee all documentary projects in the U.S. for the company, of which...