Warm congratulations to RPJ Client Alex Honnold on the release of his new film Our Children’s River in partnership with Amazon Frontlines and Ceibo Alliance. Indigenous people have long been at the forefront of protecting vast areas of the Amazon territory. By deploying high-tech surveillance tools that run on renewable...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman On the heels of what has been deemed by some “hot labor summer,” due to high profile strikes and union activity, the New York State Legislature has enacted a law to protect workers’ organizing efforts. Signed by Governor Kathy Hochul on September 6,...
By Ethan Krasnoo Last week, as widely reported, U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert was ejected from a Denver performance of the national tour of Beetlejuice, a musical based on the cult-favorite movie of the same title that played on Broadway until early 2023. According to The Denver Post, Boebert was escorted...
The National College Athletic Association (NCAA), the organization responsible for regulating college sports and athletes in the US, seems to consistently find itself at the center of high-profile legal disputes. This article will provide a summary of several interesting disputes that have arisen this summer, involving areas of the law...
Tomorrow, on Wednesday, September 13, Nicole and Daniel will be presenting a panel as part of the Realscreen sponsored program known as Dialogue. Dialogue is a workshop designed to align television executives who are BIPOC, disabled, or neurodivergent across the unscripted and non-fiction industry and provide mentorship and guidance to...
By Deena Merlen and Cleopatra Elrashidy While many forms of discrimination are outlawed in the United States, there are quite a few forms of discrimination that are not expressly covered by discrimination laws and policies. One such form of discrimination is caste-based discrimination. The caste system, which regulates people’s social...
By: Nafsika Karavida On July 28, 2023, President Biden signed Executive Order “Federal Research and Development in Support of Domestic Manufacturing and United States Jobs,” also known as “Invent it Here, Make it Here.”[1] The main purpose of the Executive Order (“EO”) is to boost domestic manufacturing of inventions that...
by Gregory Feit On August 25, 2023, in Perry et al. v. City of New York,[1] the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that if an employer requires overtime work, knows about it, or should have known about it through reasonable diligence, then the employer is...
by Alice K Jump New York City litigators have a (somewhat) deserved reputation for aggressive attacks and scorched earth tactics, all in the name of zealous advocacy. The dispute between two of New York’s most prominent litigation firms, Quinn Emanuel Urquart & Sullivan LLP, on one side, and Wigdor LLP...
Rolling Stone recently featured a discussion of Ayenda, a documentary focused on the harrowing tale of the Under-18 Afghan National Women’s Football Team's escape from Kabul after it fell to the Taliban. Ayenda was produced by RPJ client Words and Pictures and will premiere on MSNBC on August 27. Read...