From February 5-8, 2015, at the Diana Center at Barnard College, the Athena Film Festival held its fifth annual celebration of women and leadership through an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries and shorts that highlighted women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP served...
On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, RPL Partners Alice Jump and Deena Merlen and Associate Allison (“Ally”) Grein hosted a “Lunch & Learn” discussion, Internships and Internshipwrecks: How to Run a Great Internship Program While Avoiding the Potentially High Cost of Free Help, with a group of 16 decision makers from...
On November 20, 2014, the Young Leadership Committee of Seeds of Peace hosted the 9th annual Peace Market. Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP served as a Sponsor of the event. Seeds of Peace inspires and equips new generations of leaders from regions of conflict with the relationships, understanding and skills needed...
On November 18, 2014, Youth, I.N.C. brought together fourteen of the top, local nonprofits serving youth in New York in its 20th Annual Gala event, A Celebration to Benefit New York Kids. Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP served as a sponsor of the event. Bent On Learning was honored at the...
This article was written by Lawrence Brocchini, a Partner of the Firm. A New York federal judge recently awarded nearly $11 million in unpaid minimum wages to a class of exotic dancers that the owners of a New York “cabaret” incorrectly classified as independent contractors, not employees. The employers in...
RPL Partner Nicole Page appeared on Media Mayhem to discuss How to Navigate Hollywood’s Rocky Career Road with host Allison Hope Weiner. In this wide-ranging talk, Nicole focused on a variety of current issues in the media and entertainment industry, from sexism and wage inequality for women, to idea theft,...
This article was written by Lawrence Brocchini, a Partner in the Firm. In a decision on the scope of the “learned profession” exemption to the overtime requirement under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently issued a ruling that certain...
We are pleased to announce that RPL client Jackson Films Inc., along with Teale Productions Inc., will premier a new documentary, Grazers: A Cooperative Story, on November 16th as part of DOC NYC. Grazers: A Cooperative Story is an intimate chronicle of a group of fiercely independent farmers in upstate...
RPL Partner Mark H. Moore has published the article Workplace Disputes Under the Stored Communications Act in Corporate Counsel magazine, describing recent lawsuits claiming unauthorized access to data maintained by businesses or their employees, with a special focus on the federal Stored Communications Act.
This article was written by Alice K. Jump, a Partner in the Firm. For an employee to establish a whistleblowing claim under the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”), the employee must show that (1) he or she engaged in a protected activity; (2) the employer knew that the employee...