In early 2009, a former Administrative Collection Unit Supervisor in Pennsylvania, Thomas D. Kimmett, filed suit claiming his attempts to uncover the systemic abuses in the Office of Attorney General’s Financial Enforcement Section were shut down.
However, Federal Magistrate Thomas M. Blewitt alleged that because Mr. Kimmett’s position was an elevated one with access [...]
Continue Reading →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 →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 →In a recent CCH Employment Law Daily article, David Wachtel comments on the case of nine whistleblower employees, doctors and scientists, who raised concerns about the effectiveness of the FDA’s process for approving medical devices. The Office of Special Counsel has opened an investigation into the allegations and there is a lawsuit pending, filed by [...]
Continue Reading →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 →Bernabei & Wachtel represents a former state Attorney General of North Dakota who has a long and distinguished career in both government and private practice, and has taught as an adjunct law professor. Based on his experience, he decided to apply for tenure-track positions at law schools, but was consistently turned down for interviews at [...]
Continue Reading →In the latest edition of CCH’s Insight newsletter, David Wachtel helps break down the recent Supreme Court ruling in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Eleven years after it first began in California, the largest civil rights class action suit ended in June with a 5-4 ruling by the United States Supreme Court. The majority [...]
Continue Reading →The firm is prosecuting an AIR21 complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on behalf of a corporate pilot against his former employer Metropolitan Aviation. AIR21 is also known as the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century and protects pilots and other aviation workers from retaliation when they [...]
Continue Reading →Lynne Bernabei and David Wachtel were both named to the 2011 edition of Super Lawyers for Washington, D.C., an annual publication which rates service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Lynne was named as one of [...]
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, [...]
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