Many employers are rightfully concerned with how best to manage the business and financial impact and implications of the COVID-19 outbreak and resulting closures and dislocations. Some are considering temporary furloughs of workers as an alternative to terminations or reductions in force (“RIFs”). Below, we provide a general overview of these employer...
With the world practicing social distancing and fitness studios and gyms across the country shuttering for the time being, wellness enthusiasts of all varieties—from personal trainers and yoga instructors to boxers, dancers and runners—are taking to the internet to make sure that we stay active, even if we can’t leave...
As the situation and circumstances of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continue to change, we hope that you and yours are staying safe, healthy and protected. At Reavis Page Jump, we have been closely monitoring the recommendations of the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as...
Amidst the spread of consequential news this week, one item that was particularly consequential was the sentencing of Harvey Weinstein. On Wednesday, Judge James Burke issued a 23-year prison sentence for Weinstein’s conviction on two felony sex-crime charges. The disgraced movie mogul was convicted of rape in the third degree...
RPJ client and production company Multitude Films' newest feature-length documentary Pray Away will have its world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival in Documentary Competition, as announced last week. Directed by Kristine Stolakis, the film goes in depth to reveal the lasting damage inflicted on individuals in gay conversion programs,...
On Thursday, May 7, 2020, the Read Alliance will hold its annual benefit at the Tribeca Rooftop. The Read Alliance works to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through teens who provide one-on-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities in New York. Since its inception in 2000, the organization has...
We are pleased to announce that RPJ Partner Deena R. Merlen, who heads RPJ’s Connecticut practice, has been appointed as Chair of the Connecticut Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) of the USA and Canada, an independent professional organization that facilitates global intellectual property commerce through education, networking, standards...
RPJ Partner and Women Creating Change Board Chair Heidi Reavis led the contingent selected by The Today Show to honor International Women’s Day this morning. Reavis was interviewed by Today Show’s Kevin Schatell on the importance of women’s civic engagement to promote greater social justice. She mentioned the recent United Nations...
In the February edition of Advokaten, the Swedish Bar Association’s monthly magazine read by nearly every lawyer in Sweden, RPJ Associate Nafsika Karavida (US admission pending) was interviewed about her experience practicing law as a Swedish attorney in New York. Asked by the publication how she came to work with...
RPJ is pleased to welcome our newest Associate Elizabeth V. Stork. Ms. Stork practices in the fields of employment and labor law, litigation, arbitration, mediation and dispute resolution. She has represented clients in matters involving employment counseling, labor issues, misclassification and other wage and hour claims, with particular expertise in class...