RPJ is proud to congratulate the Estate of longtime client Albert Bialek on the successful sale of the historic Metro Theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side to the Upper West Side Cinema Center, a nonprofit group dedicated to revitalizing the space as a working theater. For many years, RPJ had...
This week’s Fortune Newsletter addressing the recent scrutiny Meta is facing for its controversial workplace practice, keeping “do not hire” lists concerning Meta’s former employees, featured comments from RPJ Partner Alice Jump. This practice, while uncommon, is not unheard of for companies and essentially serves as an identifier of employees...
This week, RPJ Partner Alice K. Jump was featured in a WorkLife article examining the legal implications of political discourse in the workplace. As the United States gears up for another contentious presidential election, the challenges faced by employers are more pronounced than ever. One in every three employees has...
This is the latest in a series of non-legal articles on the city we work in and love. The environs around RPJ are home to many structures of interest but perhaps none more mysterious than the fifty-one-foot obelisk at the intersection of 25th and Broadway. Interred below the spire are...
Written by Joy Wiltermuth, Featuring Alice Jump Donald Trump's real-estate business has been dealt another blow by another guilty verdict in New York. Can a felon get a commercial real-estate loan? That's one of the many financial questions to emerged after the historic criminal conviction of former President Donald Trump...
As summer approaches, so does the August implementation deadline for the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ commission lawsuit settlement agreement. Various real estate experts quoted in the Housing Wire article featuring Jump argue that these changes will harm veterans, minorities, and low-income Americans, and that...
In Syeed v. Bloomberg L.P., 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 01330, 2024 WL 1097279, at **3-4 (Mar. 14, 2024), the New York Court of Appeals held that New York State and City Human Rights Laws apply to out-of-state job applicants who are seeking employment in New York, thus clarifying its prior...
Next week, Ms. Jump will be presenting a live Continuing Legal Education (CLE) webinar on the topic of Non-Solicitation Agreements in the Employment Context. This event will take place on Friday, March 22, from 12:00pm – 1:40pm ET, and all friends of RPJ can access the CLE at no cost...
This past Wednesday night, November 8, RPJ Attorneys Alice Jump, Deena Merlen, Ethan Krasnoo and Helen D. (Heidi) Reavis weighed in on “Questions You Don’t Want to Ask Out Loud—Employment Law,” the inaugural Panel sponsored by Equity in Lighting. The Panel provided RPJ the opportunity to answer anonymous employment and...
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...