The 2012 edition of “Washington, D.C. and Baltimore’s Top Rated Lawyers,” created by LexisNexis / Martindale-Hubbell, and distributed with the National Law Journal, listed Lynne Bernabei and Dave Wachtel as among the top lawyers for Labor and Employment law and Alan Kabat as among the top lawyers for Civil Law.
Continue Reading →Social media is always in the news, and it is becoming increasingly important in employment law, due to the intersection between employees’ use of social media and employers’ desire to control the workplace. In June, Lynne Bernabei gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the National Employment Lawyers Association, which covered (1) [...]
Continue Reading →Once again, the Super Lawyers has listed Lynne Bernabei, David Wachtel, and Alan Kabat as among the top attorneys in the Washington, D.C. area for employment litigation. Lynne was also listed as one of the “Top 100” lawyers in Washington, D.C., based on a vote by her peers. This was also [...]
Continue Reading →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,
Equal Employment Law Update, Chapters 44-56 (Fall 1998). Read More…
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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