Women and Hollywood has named Pray Away, directed by Kristine Stolakis and produced by Multitude Films, one of 2021’s best women-centric documentaries. The film explores the “ex-gay movement” and how former leaders of Exodus International, the largest conversion therapy organization in the world, have since come out as LGBTQ. Taking...
My Cousin Vinny, the 1992 courtroom drama/comedy starring Marisa Tomei and Joe Pesci turned 30 this week. The film is not only a good drama and fantastic comedy, but served as a driving force in pushing my interest in becoming a lawyer and specifically, a litigator. While lawyering was not...
March 15 is this year’s Equal Pay Day. What does that mean? Imagine that all the working men and women in America start working at the same time on January 1, 2021. It is like the starting line of a race. On your mark. Get set. Go. Imagine they work...
This article is part of RPJ’s non-legal series about the neighborhood and city we inhabit and love, and is a timely contribution both celebrating Women’s History Month and denouncing the invasion of Ukraine. Growing up, working and residing in or around the Flatiron area of New York City, has meant...
In light of International Women’s Day, it seems right to talk about female role models and mentors so naturally, I think about my mom. Growing up in the fifties, my mother eschewed poodle skirts for jeans and sweatshirts, was an athlete and a scholar, and rumor has it, even ran...
Friends and acquaintances who are not lawyers (and even some who are) have expressed curiosity and confusion about the recent well-publicized decision by Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York to dismiss the defamation lawsuit brought by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin against the New York Times....
During the past five years, the New York City Council has enacted a remarkably large number of amendments to the New York City Human Rights Laws that significantly expand employees’ protections against discrimination and harassment. The following is a listing of those amendments with a short description of the new...
You may have heard recently that the Florida legislature is considering a bill dubbed “Don’t Say Gay,” which would prohibit teachers from “encourag[ing] classroom discussion about sexual orientation.” Much has been written about the way that such bills may harm students because it prevents children from learning about different kinds...
Move over Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. After the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in 2014, the International Skating Union changed its rules in figure skating competitions to allow figure skaters to skate to music with lyrics to appeal to younger audiences who tune in to watch the Olympics (goodbye Swan Lake!). Now...
Nothing defined life in the time of COVID quite like Tiger King and, quite like COVID, we are still talking about Tiger King nearly two years later. On Christmas Eve, the production company behind Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls sued Netflix and the producers of Tiger King for copyright infringement...