The December 2011 issue of Washingtonian, in its survey of the top lawyers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, listed Lynne Bernabei and Dave Wachtel among the top 17 lawyers who represent employees in employment discrimination cases (“Suing the Boss: Unjustly fired or the victim of harassment at work?”), and also recognized them [...]
Continue Reading →The “Equality Matters” blog recently interviewed Lynne Bernabei as part of its investigation, “The Government Cracks Down on White House Protests – But Is It Legal?” The article discussed the allegation that the government engaged in selective prosecution of several protesters based on the content of their speech. Lynne explained that the White [...]
Continue Reading →The Chicago Tribune’s Red Eye website wrote about the rally at DePaul University, in which numerous students and faculty members gathered to protest the recent denials of tenure to numerous minority faculty members. The article also discusses the report of the American Association of University Professors, which found that one department expressed unwarranted [...]
Continue Reading →The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in Portland, Oregon, on March 9, 2011, on our client’s appeal of its designation by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of Treasury. The hour-long oral argument was broadcast by C-SPAN, and was widely covered by the press, including [...]
Continue Reading →President Obama’s flagship mortgage-modification program is a colossal failure — it’s a boondoggle that’s wasting billions of taxpayer dollars. Click to read article.
Continue Reading →On March 31, 2010, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker issued a ruling in favor of the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc. (USA), and two of its attorneys, in their challenge to the warrantless wiretapping. Our firm represents the foundation in other lawsuits. The New York Times described the ruling in a front-page story, [...]
Continue Reading →Portland, OR—In a historic ruling, Judge Vaughn Walker of the US Federal District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco ruled in favor of a US branch of Saudi charity Al Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHIF) and two of its lawyers that had sued President George W. Bush and senior government officials for [...]
Continue Reading →U.S. Chief District Judge Carr, of the Northern District of Ohio, recently issued a favorable ruling in a case brought by the KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, a client of Bernabei & Wachtel, who are working with co-counsel David Cole, Fritz Byers, and the ACLU. KindHearts challenged the freezing of its [...]
Continue Reading →A number of non-profit groups, including the Grantmakers Without Borders, OMB Watch, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Foundation, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and several others, have submitted an amicus brief on behalf of a Bernabei & Wachtel client, which is a another nonprofit group that is challenging proposed actions by the Treasury Department’s Office of [...]
Continue Reading →The Washington Independent newspaper recently quoted Lynne Bernabei regarding the nomination of Eric Holder as the U.S. Attorney General, in an article that discussed the concerns that a number of human rights and civil rights groups have about his background:
That hasn’t silenced some independent lawyers, however, such as Lynne Bernabei, a leading [...]
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