RPJ is delighted and honored to welcome our newest colleagues to the team: John A. Beranbaum John A. Beranbaum joins RPJ’s strong practice in employment law, litigation, arbitration, mediation, and trial advocacy. With over 30 years of litigation and trial experience, Mr. Beranbaum regularly counsels clients navigating complex workplace circumstances...
The Senate today, acting on a bipartisan basis, passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, which prohibits employers from requiring employees to arbitrate claims of sexual assault or harassment. The bill was approved earlier this week by a large bipartisan majority in the House of...
In its continued efforts to combat gender and race-based pay inequity, last month New York City enacted a new law that requires employers to disclose on internal and external job listings the expected salary range of a given position. The new law takes effect on May 15, 2022. Starting then,...
Yesterday, Nicole Page was quoted in an article by Deborah Copaken in her newsletter Ladyparts entitled, "Ageism Part II: Getting Fired." The essay explores the experiences of middle-aged women in corporate America facing termination as their employers seek more inexperienced employees that they can pay less, while male employees continue to...
Earlier this week, it was announced that CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker has resigned from his position, effective immediately. A couple insiders reportedly stated that he was going to be fired if he did not quit. Mr. Zucker’s abrupt departure is but the latest headline-grabbing instance of a top executive...
On Monday, RPJ client Anna Holmes published The Radical Woman Behind “Goodnight Moon” on the New Yorker, exploring the life and work of Margaret Wise Brown. Her children's books, including the classic "Goodnight Moon," rejected the moral instruction of classic fables and folktales, in favor of stories that reflected the preoccupations,...
As New York City comes back to life, we are reviving our non-legal series about the neighborhood and city that RPJ inhabits and loves. When I was a kid growing up in Long Beach, NY, I was fortunate enough to have a Dad who was crazy about theatre and to...
Missing in Brooks County, the influential feature documentary that follows two families as they search for missing children in Brooks County, Texas, and puts a human face on the fatal crossings by undocumented Mexican immigrants that has created the “largest cemetery” in the United States, will be premiering on PBS’s...
As New York City comes back to life, we are reviving our non-legal series about the neighborhood and city that RPJ inhabits and loves. Those of us who have ridden the subway to RPJ’s Madison Avenue offices in the past two years have taken advantage of a less crowded station...
In a 6-3 decision issued January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court cast significant doubt on the viability of a pillar of President Biden’s plan to fight to the spread of Covid-19. The Court’s majority held that challengers were likely to succeed on their claim that the Occupational Safety and Health...