This chapter provides an overview of the key remedies available to employment discrimination plaintiffs under Section 1981 and Title VII. For further discussion of these issues, including the complex law governing the taxation of monetary remedies, see Seymour & Brown,
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On August 9, 2011, the National Law Journal published an opinion piece by Lynne Bernabei and Alan Kabat, “The SEC properly expanded protection for attorney whistleblowers” which discussed how the SEC’s new regulations for the Dodd-Frank whistleblower claims will allow employees, including attorneys, to report financial misconduct by their corporate employers, even if [...]
Continue Reading →This chapter, written in 1994, provides an overview of harassment employment law claims under Title VII and Section 1981, with an emphasis on sexual and racial harassment claims, and a briefer presentation of concurrent state civil rights remedies. Read More…
Continue Reading →Lynne Bernabei, David Wachtel and Alan Kabat have been listed in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. For 28 years, Best Lawyers has come to be regarded – by both the legal profession and the public – as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the U.S. The new 2011 Best Lawyers, [...]
Continue Reading →The National Law Journal, on March 16, 2009, published a column by Lynne Bernabei and Alan Kabat, “Protect whistleblowers.” This column explained how the current economic crisis motivated Congress to propose and enact significant new legal protections for whistleblowers, particularly those in the financial industries and those who work for the government and government [...]
Continue Reading →The National Law Journal published Alan Kabat’s commentary on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent retaliation decisions, in which the Court held that employees can bring retaliation claims under Section 1981 (the race discrimination statute) and the federal-sector Age Discrimination Act, thus rejecting the view of employers and some courts that those laws did [...]
Continue Reading →Lynne Bernabei and Alan Kabat of Bernabei & Wachtel PLLC, and Jason Zuckerman, co-authored an article in an ABA publication, “Seven Questions for Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers to Ask” (The Practical Lawyer, October 2007). This article discusses important factual and procedural issues to be considered in evaluating corporate whistleblower claims.
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Lynne Bernabei and Alan Kabat represent a partner at the Ballard Spahr law firm, which filed a retaliatory lawsuit against the partner after she notified them of her sex discrimination and other claims against the firm. Earlier this month, the court granted our client’s motion to dismiss Ballard Spahr’s complaint, finding that the complaint was [...]
Continue Reading →Lynne Bernabei and Alan Kabat wrote an article entitled “Garcetti: Nine Months Later, How Have the Federal Courts Analyzed ‘Duty Speech’ by Government Employees with First Amendment Claims?” which appeared in the Bureau of National Affairs’ Government Employee Relations issue of February 27, 2007. Click here to read article.
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Continue Reading →The Bernabei Law Firm announced that Alan Kabat has been named partner. Mr. Kabat has been with The Bernabei Law Firm, and its predecessors, since working as a summer associate in 1997.
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