RPJ’s Ethan Krasnoo was recently interviewed regarding his and RPJ’s Alice K. Jump’s client, Kimberly Steefel, in an article for Law360. A former attorney at Ballard Spahr LLP, Ms. Steefel filed a lawsuit against the firm and its employee benefits group leader, Brian Pinheiro, claiming that she was fired due...
Last week, Heidi Reavis was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times regarding a series of lawsuits filed by 18-year-old Stanley Zhong and his father, Nan Zhong, alleging anti-Asian discrimination by multiple universities during the 2023 undergraduate admissions process. “Whiz kid” Stanley graduated from high school in 2023 in Palo Alto,...
As civil rights activists recently called on consumers to mount a one-day boycott of Target in late February, Vogue Business asked, “Is a consumer boycott brewing in the US?” That question has been squarely answered as calls for such boycotts have multiplied in protest of companies retreating from their diversity,...
By Ethan Krasnoo and Anna Beckelman In May 2023, in the RPJ website post ”Will NYC’s New Employment Discrimination Bill Restrict Casting ‘In The Heights’?” we discussed New York City’s new law prohibiting employment discrimination based upon height or weight and how this legislation might affect casting decisions in New...
Sometimes we stand up for justice, and sometimes we march, but Rosa Parks remained seated. She was arrested for refusing to comply with a racist ordinance in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, that required Black people to sit in the back half of the bus, and if the front half...
RPJ Partner Deena R. Merlen , who serves as Co-Chair of the Diversity Law Committee of the FairField Co. Bar Association, is pleased to announce an upcoming event hosted by the Diversity Committee: “Diversity Law: A Half Century of Changing Attitudes on LGBTQI Rights in Connecticut.” This CLE program, which...
Previously this month, RPJ pre-law staff were invited to participate in a negotiation workshop at Columbia Law School organized by its International and Comparative Law Programs, and took First Prize! On Tuesday, RPJ made another reappearance at the Law School, this time for a lecture of our own. Partner Helen...
By Ethan Krasnoo Ensemblist Kimberly Moore has taken Hadestown from Broadway to lower Manhattan, having filed last month a lawsuit in federal court against the Broadway producers of the Tony Award-winning show. In the lawsuit, Moore alleges race discrimination and retaliation under federal and New York law. According to the...
As recounted by my colleagues Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman in their recent article, on May 11, 2023, the New York City Council passed a bill that prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, and access to public accommodation on the basis of someone’s actual or perceived height or weight. By...
I recently have been involved in a labor arbitration where a local union of employees at a federal penitentiary successfully challenged the Bureau of Prisons’ discriminatory policy of excluding females from two posts because they might see a male inmate unclothed. The Arbitrator bifurcated the hearing so that the union,...