Today, AltaClaro, an experiential learning platform for lawyers, featured RPJ Partner Nicole Page on their Ascension blog, on which they share stories, tips and secrets to success from top lawyers in all fields. In Ms. Page's #AscensionStory, entitled "Fighting for Change in the Eye of the Storm," she discusses the year's developments...
Our firm has worked at the center of the #MeToo movement, representing both employees and employers, and RPJ Partners Nicole Page and Alice K. Jump have navigated the complicated legal trenches of workplace sexual harassment in several industries. On April 25, the lawyers' experiential learning platform AltaClaro will host a...
On April 6, AltaClaro, an experiential learning platform for lawyers, featured RPJ Partner Alice K. Jump on their Ascension blog, on which they share stories, tips and secrets to success from top lawyers in all fields. In Ms. Jump's #AscensionStory, entitled "Empowered by Effective Empathy," she emphasizes how invaluable it is...
On Wednesday, April 25, AltaClaro will feature RPJ Partners Nicole Page and Alice K. Jump in a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) webcast for lawyers about the #MeToo movement. "#MeToo, Now What? The Sexual Harassment Debate from the Legal Trenches" will take a critical, in-depth look at the current business and...
This is the first of occasional non-legal articles on the city we work in and love. All of us here at Reavis Page Jump LLP are grateful for our fabulous location at 41 Madison Avenue, with its spectacular views and proximity to one of Manhattan’s gems, Madison Square Park. What our...
From February 9-11, Columbia University held its first annual Women's Conference: She Opened the Door. RPJ Partners Helen D. "Heidi" Reavis and Alice K. Jump attended. Ms. Jump had an opportunity to hear and visit with numerous leaders in digital and entrepreneurial spaces, including the heads of digital marketing at...
The United States Supreme Court has recently issued a decision which gives plaintiffs who bring both state and federal claims in federal court something of a breather. In Artis v. District of Columbia, a five-four majority held that the statute of limitations for state claims is tolled (i.e., stops running) during...
The past few months have been the among the most thought-provoking of my career. I am a litigator and employment lawyer who started practicing in the early 1980s when, for the first time in American history, women were entering the legal profession in large numbers. In law school, feminism was...
When an employee is involuntarily terminated, hard feelings are likely to arise on both sides, particularly if the employee asserts some claim in connection with the termination. It is therefore common, whether in the context of a general severance agreement or in connection with the settlement of a particular claim,...
February 22, 2016, New York, NY — On February 19, 2015, a lawyer for Morgan Stanley requested that a New York federal judge dismiss Feldman-Boland, et al. v. Morgan Stanley, et al. The suit, filed by Jaime Feldman-Boland and James Boland, who are represented by RPL Partner Alice K. Jump,...