On Saturday, February 11th, RPL Partner and principal entertainment attorney Nicole Page will lead a workshop with Associate Allison ("Ally") M. Grein entitled "Contract Landmines: How to Navigate and Negotiate the Legal Side of Filmmaking" as part of the 7th Annual Athena Film Festival at Barnard College. Ms. Page will help participants understand the legal landscape...
RPL Partner Deena R. Merlen was privileged to speak at the Opening Session of the Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations on February 1, 2017. The event brought together exceptional youth delegates from 85 countries with ambassadors and other UN high officials, intra-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and other partners...
In Stacey Lastoe's article, published on Friday, January 20, 2017 on The Muse, she confronts the question, "Can I get fired for talking politics at work?" Lastoe turned to RPL Managing Partner Helen D. ("Heidi") Reavis and Partner Deena R. Merlen for answers. "What happens if I do discuss politics at the office?...
From February 9th to 12th, the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College and Women and Hollywood will host their 7th Annual Athena Film Festival, a yearly celebration of women's leadership on view in an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries, and short films that highlight powerful and courageous women in real life and in...
Every year we host an Ask for More Holiday Lunch for women executives focusing on women in leadership roles and how to continue paving the way to gender equity. This year, while covering the myriad ways in which discrimination manifests itself in the workplace, we highlighted the federal and state...
Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP Partner Mark H. Moore shares key need-to-knows about the federal anti-hacking statutes as they pertain to employment disputes-- how companies use the statutes, what they imply for monitoring employee communications, and how they may change with the recent passage of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). The...
On Tuesday, December 6, 2016, Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP hosted its second annual Ask for More Holiday Lunch, led by Partner Nicole Page. The Ask for More events focus on women in leadership roles and paving the way to gender equity. This year, Ms. Page spoke about the myriad ways in which discrimination manifests itself in the...
Two weeks ago on October 27, 2016, New York City passed the “Freelance Isn’t Free Act,” (the “Act”) which provides legal protections for freelancers. The Act will go into effect 180 days after it is signed by Mayor de Blasio. Prior to this Act, a freelancer’s sole remedy for nonpayment...
On Saturday, November 5, 2016, Reavis Parent Lehrer Managing Partner Helen D. (“Heidi”) Reavis appeared at the inaugural Voice of a Woman Festival NYC and spoke on a panel following the screening of “Equal Means Equal,” a feature documentary film that explores the unequal treatment of men and women under the...
Recently, California state enacted a new law that allows actors and other entertainment industry professionals to require removal of their ages posted on certain websites. Specifically, A.B. 1687 requires commercial entertainment employment providers like the Internet Movie Database (“IMDb”), that offer paid subscription services for actors and other professionals to...