RPJ is delighted to share that once again, our colleagues Jill Kahn Marshall, Daniel Ain, and Hannah Brefeld have all been named to this year’s Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation list. Published annually, the Lawdragon 500 X honors the rising generation of legal leaders whose exceptional talent, innovative thinking, and...
By Jill Kahn Marshall Over the last few weeks, a lawsuit brought by a former JPMorgan Chase banker alleging sexual harassment and assault against the bank and a senior executive within its leveraged finance division has made headlines. The salacious complaint alleges that the executive subjected the plaintiff to sexual...
By Jill Kahn Marshall, Anna Beckelman, Lucia Mead “Stay-or-pay” provisions are requirements in employment contracts that an employee, upon their departure from an employer before a defined period of time, repay the employer for expenses related to their employment.[1] Such mandated repayments may be for training costs (often known as...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman On Monday, January 12, the New Jersey legislature gave final passage to a bill that would significantly expand eligibility for family leave in the state. The bill now awaits signature from outgoing Governor Phil Murphy. Under current New Jersey law, employers with 30...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman Effective February 22, 2026, employees in New York City will have expanded rights under the Earned Sick and Safe Time Act (ESSTA or the “Act”). Currently, ESSTA entitles covered employees to accrue 40 or 56 hours of sick and safe leave annually, depending...
RPJ is proud to announce that Helen D. (“Heidi”) Reavis, Alice K. Jump, Deena R. Merlen, Frederick Fucci and John A. Beranbaum have been selected to the 2025 Metro New York Super Lawyers list and Jill Kahn Marshall has been selected to the 2025 Metro New York Rising Stars list. Following a vigorous...
RPJ’s Jill Kahn Marshall was recently quoted in an article from Clinician.com, titled “Social Media Posts Create Risk, Can Require Discipline.” The piece examines how healthcare employers are addressing the reputational and legal risks posed by employees’ social media activity, particularly posts that contain “offensive” or “unprofessional” content. The article...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman On September 5, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission withdrew its appeals in the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits of decisions that had enjoined the Commission from enforcing its non-compete ban, which prohibited most non-compete agreements nationwide. The FTC, under the Biden administration, had approved...
By Alice K. Jump, Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Dept. of Youth Services, ruling that so-called “reverse discrimination” cases are not subject to a higher standard of proof than other discrimination claims. In...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” which aims to “eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights...