RPJ Partner Ethan Krasnoo was recently featured in a Law360 article entitled “Opera Star’s Plea Shows Broad Reach of #MeToo, Atty Says”. Law360 publishes its newsletter to 1.5 million legal professionals each day. The article, by Cara Salvatore, features a “Q&A” with Ethan which focuses on RPJ’s representation of Samuel...
We are pleased to report that on Friday, August 4, 2023, RPJ client and sexual assault complaining witness, Samuel Schultz, received some closure in connection with the criminal matter against his rapists, opera star David Daniels and his husband, Scott Walters, which was slated to begin trial that day in...
Democratic and Republican lawmakers have come together for the second time this year in an effort to increase transparency for incidents of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. On September 15, 2022, the Senate Judiciary Committee, acting on a bipartisan basis, unanimously voted to advance the Speak Out Act...
The Senate today, acting on a bipartisan basis, passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, which prohibits employers from requiring employees to arbitrate claims of sexual assault or harassment. The bill was approved earlier this week by a large bipartisan majority in the House of...
Today BBC News reported as its primary Feature the first meeting of a “citizen’s grand jury” convened by 23-year-old Madison Smith, citing a rarely used nineteenth-century law to bring charges against her rapist, after the County DA refused to prosecute stating violence related to “immature sex” was not worthy of...
Amidst the spread of consequential news this week, one item that was particularly consequential was the sentencing of Harvey Weinstein. On Wednesday, Judge James Burke issued a 23-year prison sentence for Weinstein’s conviction on two felony sex-crime charges. The disgraced movie mogul was convicted of rape in the third degree...
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...
This is the fifth and final article in a series discussing the proposed Title IX regulations published by the U.S. Department of Education on November 16, 2018, and intended to address institutional procedures for investigating and resolving complaints of sexual harassment and sexual assault in educational institutions funded by the...