The Federal Correctional Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, (“FCI-Memphis”) is one of 122 prisons run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The inmates at FCI-Memphis are all males, but the institution has 49 female employees. Due to a chronic shortage of correctional officers, FCI-Memphis regularly “augments” (i.e. requires) females to...
Yesterday, Nicole Page was quoted in an article by Deborah Copaken in her newsletter Ladyparts entitled, "Ageism Part II: Getting Fired." The essay explores the experiences of middle-aged women in corporate America facing termination as their employers seek more inexperienced employees that they can pay less, while male employees continue to...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has issued a “clarifying” ruling, Lenzi v. Systemax, Inc., No. 18-979, 2019 WL 6646630, at *1–2 (2d Cir. Dec. 6, 2019), holding that a plaintiff seeking to assert claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for substandard...
This is the second article in a series addressing the newly proposed Title IX regulations, published by the U.S. Department of Education on November 16, 2018, intended to address institutional procedures for investigating and resolving complaints of sexual harassment and sexual assault in educational institutions funded by the federal government....
In her timely new book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, author and RPJ client Rebecca Traister explores the power of the collective anger felt by generations of women in America, from the various ways in which this anger has been received by society in the past to...
RPJ Partner Nicole Page was quoted in “Time's up: Legal, judicial systems slow to adapt to sexual harassment and assault issues,” an in-depth article appearing in the June 2018 issue of the ABA Journal. The full text of the article is available here, and will appear in the Journal's June 2018 print...
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...
In the March 2018 edition of Vanity Fair, writer Bethany McLean addresses how the #MeToo movement is being addressed on Wall Street and the world of finance. While several industries have begun to publicly contend with sexual harassment allegations of major figures, Wall Street, a professional environment known for marginalizing women,...
Last week, Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York on behalf of a former associate attorney of Defendant Goldberg Segalla LLP, an international law firm headquartered in New York State. As the lawsuit describes, Plaintiff Marissa T. Jones...
For immediate release Female Attorney, Promised Family-Friendly Workplace, Sues Large New York Firm for Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation Former Goldberg Segalla lawyer and mother punished for following firm practices, fired after protesting firm partner’s discrimination and harassment campaign August 31, 2016, New York, NY – Today, New York City-based law...