Last week, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer unexpectedly announced the decision to dismiss the serious criminal charges against Alec Baldwin. The actor was initially charged in January 2023 with two counts of involuntary manslaughter after shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring Joel Souza on the set of ‘Rust’ in...
Tomorrow, on January 7, 2022, the Supreme Court is expected to hear an oral argument regarding religious exemptions from a vaccine mandate by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a federal agency, with a focus on the limits of federal authority. As federal, state and local governments institute COVID-19...
RPJ is proud to congratulate Partners Helen D. (Heidi) Reavis, Nicole Page and Alice K. Jump and Special Counsel Frederick R. (Fred) Fucci on their 2021 selection to Super Lawyers. We also congratulate Partner Jill Kahn Marshall and Associates Michelle Lamardo and Elizabeth Stork on their selection to Super Lawyers’...
Managing Partner Heidi Reavis shared her employment, management and Covid-19 workplace expertise on Monday, June 7, at Realscreen Live during their session “New Normal, New Workplace.” Alongside three incredibly accomplished women — Jennifer Caserta, Chief Transformation & People Officer at AMC Networks, DeJeana Chappell, Senior Manager of Workplace Strategy and...
We are elated to share that Managing Partner Heidi Reavis has been recognized by The American Lawyer in its inaugural list of Northeast Trailblazers, honoring professionals in the Northeastern United States who have moved the needle in the legal industry and are truly agents of change. According to the publication,...
As the anticipation for returning to work after the pandemic continuously increases, and conversations about employee safety and COVID-19 guidelines compliance evolve, it is difficult to say what our new normal will look like, and perhaps even more difficult to imagine what shapes our new professional lives may take. Juggling...
The compelling human rights documentary, Missing in Brooks County, chronicling the humanitarian crisis along the US/Mexico border, has been a great success across the country ever since its release. Just in the past few months, the film has won Best Documentary Feature at the Thin Line Documentary Film Festival, and...
RPJ client and a New York Times bestselling author, Julie Metz, recently released her new book Eva and Eve. The memoir follows her late mother, Eve, on her harrowing childhood journey in Nazi-occupied Vienna. Julie discovered a keepsake book, after her mother’s passing, filled with farewell notes from friends and...
Wrapping up the year on December 31, 2020 (when not inciting riots via Twitter), President Trump signed into law the bipartisan Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act, which provides funding to state and local governments, medical offices, humanitarian organizations, and forensics labs, that respond to migrant deaths on a daily...
On December 15, Business Insurance published an article entitled, “Biden Administration Faces Obstacles to Revising Employment Laws” and reached out to Partner Heidi Reavis for comment. Given that U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are semi-independent agencies with a majority of Republican Commissioners...