Broadway curtains are gearing up to rise again this fall after a year of lockdown, but the highly contagious Delta variant and breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals present serious considerations for determining the safest ways to get company members and audiences back in the theater. Partner Ethan Krasnoo weighed in...
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive orders, commencing at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively froze statutory and court imposed deadlines for all manner of legal proceedings. For civil proceedings, at least, that stoppage lasted through Nov. 3, 2020. In the months since, a few courts have had a chance to...
Not Going Quietly, directed and produced by independent studio People’s Television, Inc., will open at Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles beginning August 12 and at Angelika Film Center in New York City on August 13! Official selection at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and Winner of the Audience Award and...
On July 21, RPJ Attorney Elizabeth Stork was featured in Bloomberg Law’s article entitled, “As Offices Reopen, State Laws Thread Worker Privacy and Safety.” The piece discusses how employers can prepare to welcome employees back to the office while navigating the many new state employment laws mobilized by the pandemic,...
HBO Max has ordered eight episodes of “The Climb,” a rock climbing competition series where contestants exercise athleticism and acuity to vie for the title of the world’s best amateur climber. Developed by Jason Momoa’s production company On the Road and the show’s creators, The Intellectual Property Corporation, the series...
Journalist and filmmaker Daizy Gedeon was honored at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her latest documentary, Enough!: Lebanon’s Darkest Hour, which received the Cannes Film Festival’s “Movie That Matters Award” in association with the Better World Fund. Profiling the state of systemic corruption within Lebanon’s kleptocratic government, Enough! warns of...
Netflix has released the official trailer for Pray Away—directed by Kristine Stolakis and produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Television—scheduled to release on Tuesday, August 3. The documentary chronicles the polarity and popularity of Exodus International, an evangelical church group founded in the 1970’s, most known for...
On July 1, New York prosecutors revealed the indictment charging Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s Chief Financial Officer, with grand larceny and the Trump Organization with fraud. The indictment of Mr. Weisselberg illuminates civil and criminal liabilities to which corporate finance executives are possibly subject. According to The Wall Street...
A timely new article entitled “The state of the campaign to end mandatory arbitration of sexual misconduct claims in employment agreements” written by RPJ Partner Mark H. Moore was recently published by Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw Today. In this in-depth piece, Mark discusses the growing practice of employers of requiring arbitration...
On Monday, June 21, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the NCAA in the case of “National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston,” entitling many elite student-athletes to additional scholarships and education-related compensations—a decision that honors the work of long-time RPJ client and friend Sonny Vaccaro. Mr. Vaccaro, most known for...