Since Covid-19 halted production in every corner of the entertainment industry, reality television has been quickly trying to figure out how to adapt production for their next seasons to be safe amid ongoing transmission concerns. Following industry developments, Yahoo! Entertainment reported in an article on June 26, “The future of...
Bankruptcy filings are on the rise, and retailers across the country are having to make decisions about how to best move forward as we continue to combat the coronavirus. Business Insurance published an article on June 1 discussing the impacts, specifically highlighting that which retailers survive will likely come down...
Governments, pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers around the world are racing to produce a vaccine for COVID-19, as well as potential drugs to fight the virus in those who contract it. The numbers show at least 70 reported potential vaccines and 150 other drugs for treatment that are in development...
As the economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic keeps mounting, and employers try to make decisions about how to keep their balance sheets—and those of their employees—in the black, pay cuts to all ranks are becoming standard protocol. Certain companies have chosen to introduce pay cuts for those at the...
On Sunday, April 26, RPJ client Engel Entertainment celebrated the premiere of its eighth season of North Woods Law on Discovery’s Animal Planet. The special two-hour premiere kicked off the season with the dramatic rescue of a hiker lost in the New Hampshire mountains for five days without food or...
RPJ Partner and Women Creating Change Board Chair Heidi Reavis led the contingent selected by The Today Show to honor International Women’s Day this morning. Reavis was interviewed by Today Show’s Kevin Schatell on the importance of women’s civic engagement to promote greater social justice. She mentioned the recent United Nations...
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published an article discussing the Weinstein conviction and quoting RPJ Partner Heidi Reavis as an expert in the legal field of sexual harassment and assault cases. The article specifically addressed what impact the particular convicted and acquitted charges could have on sex-crimes cases moving forward....
The verdict for the sex crimes trial against Harvey Weinstein was announced this afternoon, finding the film mogul guilty of two counts of felony sex crimes, including rape and criminal sexual act. The jury acquitted Weinstein of the three other charges brought against him in the trial, two of which...
On Tuesday of this week, the jury in the trial for the sex-crimes case against Harvey Weinstein started their deliberations with several questions, which continued on Wednesday for their second day. They requested read-backs of all of the testimony from key accuser Mimi Haleyi as well as the testimony of...
Earlier this week and kicking off the new year, on January 22, RPJ co-sponsored a free screening of producer Mick Caouette’s film, Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare, at UBS in honor of the 100th anniversary in 2020 of women’s suffrage and Women Creating Change’s Founders Day, as Perkins...