This is the latest in a series of non-legal articles on the city we work in and love. On a hot New York City Sunday in July 1854, a 24-year-old African-American woman named Elizabeth Jennings was trying to get to church. She boarded a horse-drawn streetcar at the corner of...
RPJ Partner Alice K. Jump was quoted Law360's April 22 article entitled, “Legal Pitfalls Loom for Employers Reopening Post-Pandemic.” The article was published on Law360's website, and as the lead story in its Employment and Corporate newsletter, and covers the legal dangers and logistical challenges faced by employers as states begin to...
On December 23, MarketWatch published an article discussing some of the biggest legal changes coming to employers and employees in 2020. In “Where U.S. Workers Will See Minimum Wage Increases and Paid Family Leave in 2020,” reporter Andrew Keshner highlights the new 12-week paid family leave law for federal workers...
In the wake of the #Metoo movement and the strengthening of laws concerning sexual harassment claims, employers have been encouraged to promptly and aggressively investigate claims of harassment or sexual misconduct in the workplace. While failing to take such accusations seriously certainly creates legal risk, a flawed or biased investigation...
This is the latest in a series of non-legal articles on the city we work in and love. President Chester A. Arthur is a familiar figure here at RPJ as his bronze statue stands steps from our office entrance. (A prior “RPJ’s New York” discussed Arthur’s tumultuous relationship with his...
Predictable jokes about French joie de vivre swept employment law circles after a recent decision from a Paris court awarded damages to the estate of an employee who had died on a business trip in 2013. The cause of death was a heart attack suffered while the employee was having “an...
RPJ is proud to congratulate Partners Helen D. (Heidi) Reavis and Alice K. Jump, along with Special Counsel Lawrence Brocchini and Fred Fucci, on their 2019 selection to Super Lawyers. We also congratulate Associate Jill Kahn Marshall on her selection to Super Lawyers' Rising Stars! Super Lawyers has previously recognized Mr. Brocchini as well...
On September 10, RPJ Partners Alice K. Jump and Mark H. Moore gave a presentation to the Foundation Administrators Network, a division of Philanthropy New York, entitled "Investigation of Harassment and Discrimination Claims: A Practical Guide." The goal of the program was to advise foundation administrators on the practical and...
Thirty years ago, mediation—settlement negotiations guided and supervised by a third party neutral—was something of an alien concept for New York civil litigators. We remember many conversations dismissing participation in early mediation of a case as a sign of weakness or simply as an opportunity for free discovery. Today, however,...
This is the latest in a series of non-legal articles on the city we work in and love. On opposite ends of Madison Square Park, three blocks apart, stand two imposing bronze statues facing each other along the Park’s eastern pathway. The figures are of Chester A. Arthur, the 21st...