Tomorrow, on Wednesday, September 13, Nicole and Daniel will be presenting a panel as part of the Realscreen sponsored program known as Dialogue. Dialogue is a workshop designed to align television executives who are BIPOC, disabled, or neurodivergent across the unscripted and non-fiction industry and provide mentorship and guidance to...
By Deena Merlen and Cleopatra Elrashidy While many forms of discrimination are outlawed in the United States, there are quite a few forms of discrimination that are not expressly covered by discrimination laws and policies. One such form of discrimination is caste-based discrimination. The caste system, which regulates people’s social...
By: Nafsika Karavida On July 28, 2023, President Biden signed Executive Order “Federal Research and Development in Support of Domestic Manufacturing and United States Jobs,” also known as “Invent it Here, Make it Here.”[1] The main purpose of the Executive Order (“EO”) is to boost domestic manufacturing of inventions that...
by Gregory Feit On August 25, 2023, in Perry et al. v. City of New York,[1] the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that if an employer requires overtime work, knows about it, or should have known about it through reasonable diligence, then the employer is...
by Alice K Jump New York City litigators have a (somewhat) deserved reputation for aggressive attacks and scorched earth tactics, all in the name of zealous advocacy. The dispute between two of New York’s most prominent litigation firms, Quinn Emanuel Urquart & Sullivan LLP, on one side, and Wigdor LLP...
Rolling Stone recently featured a discussion of Ayenda, a documentary focused on the harrowing tale of the Under-18 Afghan National Women’s Football Team's escape from Kabul after it fell to the Taliban. Ayenda was produced by RPJ client Words and Pictures and will premiere on MSNBC on August 27. Read...
RPJ Partner Ethan Krasnoo was recently featured in a Law360 article entitled “Opera Star’s Plea Shows Broad Reach of #MeToo, Atty Says”. Law360 publishes its newsletter to 1.5 million legal professionals each day. The article, by Cara Salvatore, features a “Q&A” with Ethan which focuses on RPJ’s representation of Samuel...
by Jill Kahn Marshall On June 27, 2023, the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act (PWFA) was signed into law, providing additional workplace protections for pregnant workers and workers experiencing pregnancy-related conditions. Last Friday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released draft regulations that further explain the parameters of the law. While...
by Nicole Page On midnight of Friday July 14th, the Screen Actors Guild- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union actors officially went on strike. SAG-AFTRA’s 160,000 members joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA) who have been striking since May of this year. Hollywood writers and actors...
RPJ Partner Deena R. Merlen , who serves as Co-Chair of the Diversity Law Committee of the FairField Co. Bar Association, is pleased to announce an upcoming event hosted by the Diversity Committee: “Diversity Law: A Half Century of Changing Attitudes on LGBTQI Rights in Connecticut.” This CLE program, which...