On January 30, RPJ Partner Nicole Page will moderate a panel for the Realscreen Summit 2018. The panel will discuss how the unscripted and non-fiction content community can use this moment of cultural awareness as a catalyst to create safe workplaces for all individuals and lasting change in the industry. Ms....
The past few months have been the among the most thought-provoking of my career. I am a litigator and employment lawyer who started practicing in the early 1980s when, for the first time in American history, women were entering the legal profession in large numbers. In law school, feminism was...
Intellectual Property Update: Federal Court Allows Registration of “Scandalous” “FUCT” Trademark Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last year that the Lanham Act’s statutory bar to registration of “disparaging” trademarks ran afoul of the First Amendment, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down a companion...
RPJ Partner Nicole Page wrote an article for Refinery29 entitled, "Don't Let 2018 Be Business as Usual: How to Fight Discrimination and Harassment at Work" on December 18, 2017. "Women and men don't show up to the workplace as blank slates. By the time most of us enter the work force, we've had more than...
Supreme Court denies review for now, but will likely confront the issue at some point. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirming dismissal of a lesbian security guard’s Title VII discrimination claim based on her sexuality....
It was announced last week that the documentary film Unrest, produced by RPJ client Lindsey Dryden, is on the shortlist for the 2018 Academy Awards. Unrest is a personal documentary about Harvard PhD candidate Jennifer Brea's journey with the largely unknown myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), more commonly called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,...
Practice Tip: With cease and desist letters, one size does not fit all. Intellectual property (IP) rights holders risk loss of their exclusive rights if they fail to enforce them vigorously. The cease and desist letter (C&D) is generally the first step in the process. I pride myself on successfully...
On Friday, December 8, 2017, RPJ's newest Associate Nikita ("Niki") Bhargava will be sworn in to the New Jersey State Bar as well as the Federal District Court of New Jersey. The swearing in ceremony will take place at the Superior Court of New Jersey in Middlesex County with the Honorable...
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On November 14, RPL client and production company Cowboy Bear Ninja celebrated the premiere of yet another new show in what has been a busy and successful fall for the company. Liquid Science, airing on the online streaming platform Red Bull TV, features GZA, aka "The Genius", one of the founding...